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Discovering your Buddha Nature with Jack Kornfield

The ten paramitas, or "perfections," are central to Buddhist teaching and practice. These perfections represent qualities to cultivate in order to progress along the path

Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield – Live October 2025

Embark on a transformative journey with "Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield," a course designed to guide you through the wisdom, compassion, and freedom

Transform Your Life Through Jack Kornfield’s Most Powerful Stories: A 10 Hour Journey

Enter the heart of wisdom through Jack Kornfield’s most beloved and life-changing stories. In this soulful course, each story becomes a doorway to compassion, healing,

Necessary Healing

Wise spiritual practice requires that we actively address the pain and conflict of our life in order to come to inner harmony. Without including the

Transforming Anxiety and Difficult Thoughts

Repetition, compassion, and the belief that the painful cycles of thought can be transformed all have a part in developing new patterns of thought.

The Key to Wise Thought

The key to wise thought is to sense the energy state behind the thought. When we rest in the heart, then we can use thought

Inspired New Year’s Intentions

Setting a long-term intention is like setting the compass of our heart. No matter how rough the storms, how difficult the terrain, even if we

You Are Not Alone

You are not alone. In fact, your life itself is only possible because of the thousands of generations before you, survivors who have carried the

Family Peace: A Reconciliation Meditation

When we allow our hearts to sense the pain and struggles of others, and how the suffering they carry causes pain to even themselves, a

Letting Go of Repetitive Thoughts

Whatever we regularly think colors our experience—all day, every day. Once we start to watch these thoughts, we discover that 90% of them are reruns.

Compassion is Our Nature

Through meditation we gradually open the boundaries of consciousness to compassion for all beings, as if they were part of our family. We learn that

The Wisdom of Insecurity

We can plan, we can care for, tend and respond. But we cannot control. Instead we take a breath, and open to what is unfolding,

Mindfulness and Compassion

Compassion is most real in the particulars, in our response to the immediacy of this moment. Every conscious act contributes to the healing of the

Navigating Rough Waters

Living our highest intentions can happen in great ways or in what may seem small—yet critical—ways of refusing to be conquered by the difficulties that

Mindfulness of Feelings

Feelings are ever-present. They are a mysterious and rich dimension of our human life. But without mindfulness of them we can react automatically, habitually clinging

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