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Transform Your Life Through Jack Kornfield’s Most Powerful Stories: A 10 Hour Journey

Enter the heart of wisdom through Jack Kornfield’s most beloved and life-changing stories. In this soulful course, each story becomes a doorway to compassion, healing,

Masterclass in Interactive Guided Meditation

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
Hopeful Wisdom

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

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
Awakening in Every Moment

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
Secret Beauty

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

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
Merry ChrisBuddhamas

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

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

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?
Birdsong Project

[Video] When the Birds Were Banished from the Palace (Narrated by Jack)

I am delighted to narrate this Birdsong Project short, Erin Cahill's video for “When the Birds were Banished from the Palace” by Saoirse Stice.
Overcoming Bitterness

Overcoming Bitterness and Betrayal: A Story of Forgiveness and Redemption

No matter how extreme the circumstances, a transformation of the heart is possible.

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