Heart Wisdom

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

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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 118 – Right Effort and Loving Awareness

Wise effort—the effort to be present—can also be called an act of love, for it invites us to show up for this life with open

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 117 – Quiet Minds and Steady Hearts with Trudy Goodman Kornfield

How do we listen to each other when we’re so polarized? In this podcast we explore how when we meditate from a place of “don’t

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 116 – Equanimity and the Heart of Compassion

Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it’s understood in Buddhist psychology that if we only practice…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 115 – The Medicine of the Dharma

We need something else. We need a whole other way of living with one another. Who you are is consciousness itself, is loving awareness. You’re…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 114 – The Peaceful Heart

What is the peaceful heart? What keeps us from it? The near-enemy, the quality that masquerades as equanimity, is indifference. Indifference is a not-caring, it’s…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 113 – Politics, Possibilities, and Spiritual Sanctuary

In this post-election dharma talk from 2016, Jack offers spiritual sanctuary and human possibility to a zeitgeist of fear, anger, and uncertainty.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 112 – Racism and Independence

 Here is a talk I gave on racism and interdependence in 1993. The pursuit of racial justice is a most critical task, highlighted for…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 111 – Acts of Truth and Timeless Teachings

In this podcast, we discuss these 7 teachings of Atisha, the eleventh-century Indian sage: Explore the nature of timeless awareness. Don’t be swayed by outer…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 110 – Death, Identity, and the Heavenly Messengers

 The term “amravati” translates to “the deathless.” It is that which goes beyond birth and death. We, like the Buddhist monk’s, have the ability…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 109 – This Too Shall Pass

One of the best things that we can do in difficult times like these is to go deep inside, deep into the timeless sense of…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 108 – A Steadiness of Presence

In this episode we explore how the outer developments of humanity must be met with an inner development of consciousness. We talk about how meditation…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 107 – Change and Regeneration with Paul Hawken

How can we live with a Bodhisattva heart in these hard times? You can choose to quiet your mind and tend your heart, and become…

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