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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

Inner Technology for Outer Technology

This course explores what Jack likes to call Inner Technology. These are the timeless capacities of the human heart and mind — mindfulness, compassion, emotional

The Sacred Dialogues: Freedom of Spirit, Opening the Heart with Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass (Payment Plan)

Keeping Your Heart Open in Troubled Times

[Video] Keeping Your Heart Open in Troubled Times

When the world feels uncertain and divided, it can be difficult to keep our hearts open. We may be grieving, frightened, or simply tired. There
A Fearlessness That Includes Fear

[Video] A Fearlessness That Includes Fear

Years ago, I received a frightening medical diagnosis. They told me my body was going to deteriorate, and I thought, “Okay, I think I’m okay

[Video] How to Trust Love Itself: Accepting Love as Your Birthright

We can practice seeing the world with the eyes of love. We don’t have to wait for someone to come along and awaken love in
Education of the Heart in an Age of Technology

An Education of the Heart in an Age of Technology

We live in a time of extraordinary technological development. Computers, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, space technology—all offer remarkable possibilities. But these developments alone cannot end warfare,
Letting Go Into Impermanence

[Video] Letting Go into Impermanence: Happiness, Real Love, and the Big Bang Theory

We often come to spiritual practice carrying so much—the problems of our body, the tasks we have to do, the stories we tell of our
What Does Your Heart Ask You To Serve

[Video] What Does the Heart Ask You to Serve?

Recently, I was speaking with someone who saw themselves as a leader. They were struggling with the expectations of all the people they were trying
Becoming a Zone of Peace in a Turbulent World

[Video] Becoming a Zone of Peace in a Turbulent World

The world needs our deepest medicine now. So many people are exhausted and overwhelmed, frightened by war, loss, and uncertainty. We may wonder how to
Trusting the Seasons: The Wisdom of Impermanence and Letting Go

Trusting the Seasons: The Wisdom of Impermanence and Letting Go

Here we are in the change of seasons—the great turning from the warmth and abundance of summer into autumn, when the natural world offers us
How Meditation Makes Us Kinder

[Video] How Meditation Makes us Kinder | Jack Kornfield and Sylvia Boorstein

In this short video, Sylvia and I reflect on how practice softens the heart—not through one final realization, but through a lifetime of seeing, remembering,
You're Angry Because You Care

[Video] You’re Angry Because You Care

Very often, people come to me struggling with anger—angry at what someone has done, disappointed by the political world, or disheartened by the actions of
A Steady Heart in Interesting Times

A Steady Heart in Unsteady Times

We live in unsteady times. There are the looming effects of climate change, huge AI transformations, increasing divisiveness and warfare, and the widespread mistreatment of
The World is Full of Second Chances

The World is Full of Second Chances

We live in a time when it is easy to become discouraged. We witness war and division, violence and fear, and sometimes it seems as

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