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Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield – Live October 2025

Embark on a transformative journey with "Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield," a course designed to guide you through the wisdom, compassion, and freedom

Buddhist Psychology: Essential Skills For Transforming the Heart & Mind

Join Jack Kornfield in this rich exploration of the mind and heart through the lens of Buddhist psychology. Blending modern therapeutic insight with ancient wisdom,

Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield

Embark on a transformative journey with "Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield," a course designed to guide you through the wisdom, compassion, and freedom

[Video] Unwinding the Body: Softening into Presence | Guided Meditation [with Music]

In these current times, it’s so important to take time to recharge and recalibrate—to unwind the body, relax the mind, and open the heart. That’s

Tipping the Scales to Compassion: Becoming a Makeweight of Hope

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do

Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times: Transforming Despair and Anxiety with Love and Courage

In this world we deal with loss and difficulty—there's climate change, continuing racism, injustice, refugees suffering around the world, and our growing cultural anxiety. One

Stand Up For Compassion

We are living in wild times. I have been shocked and concerned by the ramifications of many of our new governmental policies. In the midst

Always Look for the Helpers: Staying Steady and Hopeful Amidst Upheaval

The children's Bodhisattva, Mr. Rogers, describes how his mother taught him to see the disasters of the world in a new way. Instead of focusing

The Wisdom of Insecurity: Awakening in Every Moment

Spiritual life is not about possessing or finding security, but rather it's discovering what Alan Watts called the Wisdom of Insecurity – the capacity for

Rediscovering the Secret Beauty Within: Opening to Love, Presence, and Connection

What you most deeply long for is who you are, is coming back to your own heart, to your own beauty, your own wellbeing that

Just Like Me – A Guided Meditation for Cultivating Compassion

When we gaze over at another in a simple way and see them with the eyes of wisdom, we’re reminded that it’s a bigger and

How Buddhist Monks Celebrate Christmas

One December, the Western monks at my Thai teacher Ajahn Chah's Western forest monastery decided to put up a Christmas tree. The villagers who built

Post-Election Decompression: Navigating Politics, Suffering, and Change with a Loving Heart Amidst It All

We are at a major time of change on this earth, what JoAnna Macy calls 'The Great Turning.' This opportunity asks if we as a

Powerful Inner Forces: Moving Past Blame and the ‘Enemy Du Jour’

The first step in working with difficult energies is to see them clearly, using the power of mindfulness, of loving awareness.

Anger and the Path of Compassion

During times of outrage, difficulty, and disappointment, how can we best transform our fires of reaction, anger, hatred, and despair?

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