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Ask Jack: Dharma Wisdom for Life’s Real Struggles (payment plan)

A 21-day online course with beloved meditation teacher Jack Kornfield. Each day offers short video teachings, reflection prompts, and a simple practice to help you

Buddhist Psychology: Essential Concepts for Understanding Mind, Emotion, and Well-Being

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,

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

Meditation on Stopping the War Within

Sit comfortably for a few minutes, letting your body be at rest. Let your breathing be easy and natural. Bring your attention into the present,…

Audio: Finding Buddha Nature in the Midst of Difficulty Meditation

Having a hard day? Try this meditation and visualization. The compassion and clarity we seek is within us—it is our true nature.

The Temple of Healing

We all need healing at different times in our lives. Sometimes we need healing for physical illness. At other times, we need to heal the…

Audio: Forgiveness Meditation

Forgiveness is both necessary and possible. It is never too late to find forgiveness and start again. Buddhist psychology offers specific teachings and practices for…

Audio: A Mind Like Sky Meditation

Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small…

Video: Forgiveness Meditation

Buddhist psychology offers specific teachings and practices for the development of forgiveness. Like the practice of compassion, forgiveness does not ignore the truth of our…

Meditation On Lovingkindness

  May I be filled with lovingkindness “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.” – Walt…

Video: Guided Meditation

The practice of meditation does not ask us to become a Buddhist or a meditator or a spiritual person. It invites us to fulfill the…

The Zen of an Aching Heart

Sometimes suffering the losses and the unexpected betrayals and breakups that befall each of us becomes where we grow deepest in our capacity to lead

Practice: Seeing from the Universal Perspective

Buddhist psychology is filled with practices that shift us to the universal perspective. These include contemplations on the vastness of time, the cycles of impermanence,…

Practice: Don’t Know Mind

  Use this practice to bring wisdom to a situation of inner or outer conflict. Initially begin by sitting. Later you can practice in social…

Awakening to Pure Consciousness

Let us consider the unbounded sky or mirror-like nature of consciousness. We need to be practical. Our first task is to learn to distinguish the…

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