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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

Masterclass in Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield, PhD – 2025 Cohort

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,

A Reliable Compass: Your Highest Intention

Remember: no one can harm you as much as your untamed mind. Also remember: no one can help you as much as your composed mind.

When Prayer Becomes Impossible and the Heart has Turned to Stone: Antidotes for the Five Hinderances

The Buddhist tradition tells us that when their energies are strong, there are specific antidotes for these hindrances.

How Will AI Impact Our World? A Conversation with Sam Altman of ChatGPT

This is a conversation between Open AI CEO Sam Altman, along with wisdom teacher, Jack Kornfield, moderated by Soren Gordhamer.

Observing the Storm: Working with the Hinderances to Clarity

To work with Buddhism's Five Hindrances—desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt—we must actually study them, observing and allowing them to be incorporated into our meditation

Like Yeast for Bread: Understanding the Hindrances in Meditation and Life

As we try to steady the mind, the most common difficulties that arise in practice are called by the Buddha the five hindrances.

You Must Be Present to Win

In spirituality, no matter what gate we enter or what form we practice, sooner or later obstacles arise.

Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, and Daniel Goleman on His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Please take a moment and listen to these statements from my longtime friends and colleagues Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, and Daniel Goleman about the His…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 184 – Listening to Find the Way

Uncovering how to live with a peaceful heart, Jack maps the inner landscapes of meditation, and shares how we can use listening to find The…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 183 – The Wedding of Body and Spirit

Jack returns for an illuminating Dharma Talk exploring the deep human longing for the wedding of body and spirit. “The invitation of spiritual life, of…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 182 – A Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack connects with lifestyle expert Sarah Grynberg to talk about a life of greatness. “Really, meditation is about deep…

No Part Left Out: Your Life as Your Path

“Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars.” – Buddha What matters in life is simple. Are you free and loving? Are you…

Jack Kornfield on the Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg – Ep. 202

For Episode 202 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon is joined by lifelong friend, Jack Kornfield to talk about the power of Community. In this…

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