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Ask Jack: Dharma Wisdom for Life’s Real Struggles (payment plan)

A 21-day online course with beloved meditation teacher Jack Kornfield. Each day offers short video teachings, reflection prompts, and a simple practice to help you

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,

The Awakened Heart: Discovering Great Joy and Love

In this transformative 3-week course, renowned meditation teacher Jack Kornfield guides you through powerful practices to awaken the qualities of the heart that bring deep

Observing the Storm: Working with the Hinderances to Clarity

To work with Buddhism's Five Hindrances—desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt—we must actually study them, observing and allowing them to be incorporated into our meditation

Like Yeast for Bread: Understanding the Hindrances in Meditation and Life

As we try to steady the mind, the most common difficulties that arise in practice are called by the Buddha the five hindrances.

You Must Be Present to Win

In spirituality, no matter what gate we enter or what form we practice, sooner or later obstacles arise.

Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, and Daniel Goleman on His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Please take a moment and listen to these statements from my longtime friends and colleagues Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, and Daniel Goleman about the His…

No Part Left Out: Your Life as Your Path

“Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars.” – Buddha What matters in life is simple. Are you free and loving? Are you…

Trusting the Living Universe

There are a few basic principles for learning how to open our stuck places and release the contradictions of the body of fear. The first…

A Path With Heart

Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways,…

The Earth is My Witness

“Make your mind like the earth which receives all things steadily.” – The Buddha Years ago, a crew of Russian cosmonauts ran into trouble in…

Intention and the New Year

One beautiful way to honor the turning of the seasons and illuminate the heart in the darkest time of the year (in the north) is…

[Video] “Infinite Moment” Music Meditation feat. Boreta

You are invited to take a journey through Innerspace with this brand new music meditation, “Infinite Moment,” featuring the transformative words of Jack Kornfield woven…

Freedom to Make Mistakes

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Step out. Fly. It is never too late to start over. In this way you learn what is called

Compassion for Imperfection

What if you could love yourself fully, including your imperfections? What if you could love others in the same way? The wise heart brings compassion

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