Heart Wisdom – Ep. 119 – Listen With the Heart
What these divisive times ask for more than anything else is an ability to listen with the heart. When we learn to listen deeply to one another, not o…
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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 120 – Seeding Goodness
Don’t think that the seeds that you plant won’t make a difference. With equanimity, with a peaceful heart and a vast mind, you water the seeds tha…
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 arms, open awareness,…
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 know mind” we s…
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…
