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Masterclass in Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield, PhD

Join Jack Kornfield in this profound journey of interactive guided meditation. Through immersive teachings and real-time practices, deepen your connection to presence, compassion, and inner

Opening the Heart of Forgiveness with Jack Kornfield: A Journey of Reconciliation, Redemption, and Renewal

Discover the Freedom of Forgiveness: Heal the Past, Embrace Compassion, and Live with an Open Heart

Opening the Heart of Forgiveness with Jack Kornfield: A Journey of Reconciliation, Redemption, and Renewal

Discover the Freedom of Forgiveness: Heal the Past, Embrace Compassion, and Live with an Open Heart

A Reliable Compass: Your Highest Intention

Remember: no one can harm you as much as your untamed mind. Also remember: no one can help you as much as your composed mind.

When Prayer Becomes Impossible and the Heart has Turned to Stone: Antidotes for the Five Hinderances

The Buddhist tradition tells us that when their energies are strong, there are specific antidotes for these hindrances.

How Will AI Impact Our World? A Conversation with Sam Altman of ChatGPT

This is a conversation between Open AI CEO Sam Altman, along with wisdom teacher, Jack Kornfield, moderated by Soren Gordhamer.

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…

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