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Recommended Courses

The Awakened Heart: Discovering Great Joy and Love

In this transformative self-paced course, renowned meditation teacher Jack Kornfield guides you through powerful practices to awaken the qualities of the heart that bring deep

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,

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
Fully Opening to Life

[Video] Fully Opening to Life

In this touching video, Jack shares how we can fully open to life by exploring the deep vastness within our beings.
Spirit of Meditation

The Spirit of Meditation

A friend of mine visited the wonderful Zen master, Katagiri Roshi, shortly before he died. She asked Roshi if he could tell her the essence
New Thinking Allowed

[Video] New Thinking Allowed (2024): Deepening of the Heart with Jeffrey Mishlove

Jack recently joined Jeffrey Mishlove for a fresh conversation 38 years after their original Thinking Allowed television episode first aired.
mindfulness as medicine

[Video] Mindfulness as Medicine: A Liberating Dharma Talk

In this classic lecture, Jack shares stories opening us to the medicine of the Dharma.
Joy, Virtue, Overcoming Conflict

[Video] Joy, Virtue, and Overcoming Conflict | Hopeful Jack Kornfield Mindfulness Talk

In this hopeful Dharma Talk, Jack explores how Buddhist principles can cultivate happiness and joy, and help us overcome inner conflict.
Navigating the Cycles of Spiritual Life

Navigating the Cycles of Spiritual Life

There are big and small cycles in spiritual life. We can’t stop the cycles, but we can learn to navigate them with grace, ease, and
The Stories We Tell

[Video] The Stories We Tell – A Cozy Fireside Q&A Session

Jack’s timeless wisdom leads the way as he responds to a handful of questions concerning some of the common struggles encountered on the human plane.
forgiveness

[Video] Guided Meditation | Opening the Door of Forgiveness

Jack leads a powerful guided meditation practice opening to the sweet nectar of forgiveness.
kind attention

The Gift of Kind Attention

Without being aware, it’s not possible to really live in a free way. Otherwise we are just in habitual reaction to whatever is arising.
You Already Know

You Already Know: Uncovering Your Deepest Wisdom

What do you know no matter what any of the lamas and mamas and swamis and gurus might say? What is your deepest truth?
flowing wisdom

[Video] Flowing Wisdom | Relaxing Dharma Talk on Water [with ambient music & visuals]

In this flowing Dharma Talk from 1993 Jack offers relaxing wisdom on the dharma of water.
rhythm of life

Opening to the Rhythm of Life – Guided Meditation

In the midst of the busyness of life, I invite you into the calm of awareness.

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