Inner Technology
for Outer Technology
Cultivating presence, compassion, and wise action in the age of AI and digital overwhelm.
Dear friend,
Welcome. I'm very glad you're here.
We live in a remarkable time. In just a few decades, technology has transformed how we communicate, learn, work, and relate to one another. With a small device in our hands we can reach across the world and connect with people we may never meet in person.
And yet, as many of us know, the same technologies that promise connection can also bring distraction, anxiety, and division. With the rise of artificial intelligence, we are reminded even more clearly that no matter how powerful our tools become, wisdom and compassion must still come from the human heart.
The question is not whether technology will shape our lives — it already does. The deeper question is: Who are we as we engage with it?
This course explores what I like to call inner technology. These are the timeless capacities of the human heart and mind — mindfulness, compassion, emotional wisdom, and loving awareness — that help us meet the powerful outer technologies of our age with clarity and care.
The purpose of these practices is not perfection. It is simply to remember to come home to the heart of kindness when we notice we are lost. From that place, your relationship with technology — and with the world — can begin to change.
With metta,
Jack Kornfield
Outer tools
amplify inner states.
AI did not invent our greed, our fear, our reactivity. But it carries them at remarkable speed and scale. The work, then, is the same work it has always been — only now it is more urgent.
Four inner technologies of the heart
These are not new. They are timeless. But in this moment of acceleration, they have never been more needed — nor more practical.
Six small, observable shifts
in how you live with the screen.
Not abstractions. Things you can verify in your own life within the first weeks of practicing.
Begin with Jack's voice,
before you decide.
Sit with one full teaching from the course — and the first guided meditation, Connecting With Your Device from Loving Awareness. No purchase needed. Sent the moment you ask.
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A path through the digital noise,
back to the heart.
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1.1Arriving: Stepping Out of the TranceA welcome and a setting of the north star — what brings you here?
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1.2The Human Heart in a Technological AgeOuter tools amplify inner states. Who am I becoming in relation to the tools I use every day?
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1.3We Are in Relationship with TechnologyNot a tool we use, but a relationship we are in. Anxiety, freedom, and the courage to stay calm amidst stormy waters.
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1.4How Technology Amplifies Fear, Desire, and DivisionThe Four Noble Truths in modern life. Projection, enemy-making, and expanding the window of tolerance.
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1.5Guided Meditation — Connecting With Your Device from Loving AwarenessOur first formal sit. Breath as anchor. Resting in awareness larger than any label.
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1.6The Sacred Pause Before the DeviceA simple, radical shift: technology becomes the place where practice begins, not where awareness disappears.
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2.1Interrupting Autopilot — Overcoming AddictionDancing with technology rather than grasping or pushing away. The power of conscious participation.
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2.2Designing a Sane Digital LifeNotifications, morning rituals, the phone bed, digital sabbaths. Wise structure as a support for inner freedom.
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2.3Emotional Triggers, Reactivity, and ValuesPause, name, choose. The emotional literacy that lets you act from your deepest values.
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2.4Guided Meditation — Listening Beneath the NoiseIf your body had a message for you today, what would it say? A meditation on the four foundations of mindfulness.
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2.5The Awareness Beneath Constant StimulationSlowing down enough to hear what is actually happening inside — and letting wiser choices arise from there.
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3.1Guided Meditation — Meeting Technology with ‘Don't Know Mind’Mindfulness as remembering — to be here, to be who you are. Holding both agency and not knowing.
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3.2Remembering Who You AreForgetfulness is one of the deepest effects of digital life. Here we return to the body, the breath, and what matters.
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3.3Compassion in a Reactive WorldLoving-kindness as the antidote to fear. Beginning where it is easiest. Letting the heart soften.
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3.4Guided Practice — Connecting with CompassionSomething kind of magic happens when you take a moment to really see another. Practice that moves into the world.
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3.5Using Technology to Enhance Your LifeIf we want to make AI and technology more humane, first we have to know who we are.
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3.6The Ethics of New TechnologyHope and fear are both imposters. Aligning ourselves with our highest intention as we meet what is being created.
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4.1Walking Back Into the Living WorldScreens narrow attention. Nature widens it. A 15-minute walk to settle the storm.
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4.2The Five Hindrances in Digital LifeDesire, aversion, restlessness, sleepiness, doubt — alive in our devices every day. A practical map.
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4.3Real Presence in an Engineered WorldThe difference between connection and contact. Forms of presence that cannot be replaced by screens.
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4.4Ethical Action Without AttachmentTo act beautifully, ethically, wholeheartedly — without attachment to controlling the outcome.
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4.5Closing — The Awakened Heart in the Age of AIA final blessing, and the question that goes with you: what world do we wish to help create?
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5.1Mindfulness, AI, and the Future of Life on this PlanetIn conversation with Sam Altman.
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5.2Wisdom Councils, Governance, and Shared ResponsibilityIn conversation with Sam Altman.
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5.3Meditation, Identity, and the Values Beneath TechnologyIn conversation with Sam Altman.
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5.4AGI, Education, Capitalism, and Supporting HumanityIn conversation with Sam Altman.
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5.5Suffering, Compassion, and Humane TechnologyAwakening the heart in a digital age — with Trudy Goodman.
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5.6The Whole Elephant: Filter Bubbles, Digital Opioids, and Unfiltered MindfulnessIn conversation with Trudy Goodman.
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5.7Appreciative Joy, Shared Struggle, and Watering the Seeds of GoodnessIn conversation with Trudy Goodman.
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5.8The Inner Technology of Loving AwarenessThe inner treasury and embodied compassion — with Trudy Goodman.
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5.9Steadying the Heart in an Uncertain WorldTechnology, fear, and inner equanimity.
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5.10The Sacred Intention: Offering Your Gift to the WorldA closing dialogue on intention, gift, and the path forward.
Each session is a small bell
called back to the day.
A conversation with the wise
across many lifetimes.
“No amount of outer technology is going to stop continuing warfare, climate change, racism, or divisiveness — because the root of those is the human heart and mind.”
“Part of inner technology is to recognize suffering and not avert your gaze.”
If you have a phone,
this is for you.
Jack Kornfield
Jack is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. A clinical psychologist, former Buddhist monk, and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, he has trained generations of teachers and led retreats around the world for nearly fifty years.
In recent years, he has been in conversation with leaders in artificial intelligence, climate, and technology — exploring how the timeless practices of presence and compassion can meet the most urgent questions of our age.
This course is the distillation of those conversations: a clear, warm, deeply practical map for how to live, work, and love in a world being rewritten in real time.
Before you begin.
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How many more mornings
do we want to begin with the phone?
If something in you has been quietly waiting to be remembered — let this be the beginning.
