How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
With Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
Discover the profound wisdom of love as a spiritual path. Join Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman in this transformative course exploring intimacy, mindfulness, and compassion as the cornerstones of thriving relationships. The journey includes two live Q&A sessions on February 24th and March 3rd, where you can engage directly with Jack and Trudy to deepen your understanding and practice.
Love as a Spiritual Path
Love is one of the most profound and transformative spiritual practices available to us. It invites us to open our hearts and cultivate a deep intimacy with life itself. True love is not merely an emotion or fleeting experience—it is a way of being, a sacred path that brings us into alignment with our own true nature and the interconnected web of existence.
At its core, love teaches us trust. It reminds us that we can meet the impermanence of life with grace, compassion, and a spacious heart. Love allows us to see ourselves and others with clarity and kindness, moving beyond the walls of judgment and separation. As Zen master Dogen once said, “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” Love is that intimacy, an embrace of the beauty and mystery of being alive.
Walking the path of love asks us to expand our circle of compassion. This begins with loving ourselves just as we are—offering our body, heart, and mind the same tender care we would offer a dear friend. From there, we widen our hearts to include those closest to us, our communities, and even the difficult people in our lives. This practice, known as metta or loving-kindness, is a profound protector against fear and anxiety and a doorway to freedom.
Love as a spiritual path also invites us to drop our defenses and meet the world with curiosity and vulnerability. It calls us to listen deeply, hold space for the suffering of others, and rejoice in their joy. In love, we recognize that our relationships—whether with partners, family, or the earth itself—are like long meditation retreats: sometimes messy, often revealing, but always opportunities for growth and awakening.
Ultimately, love reminds us of our interconnection. It dissolves the illusion of separateness and reveals the great truth: “We’re here together.” Through love, we experience the timeless joy and peace that are our birthright. It is a profound spiritual journey, one that carries us back to the essence of who we truly are—loving awareness.
Let love be your teacher. Let it guide you toward freedom and wholeness. For in love, we find not only connection but the very essence of enlightenment itself.
Course Overview
Relationships are among the most profound teachers on our spiritual journey. In this course, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman invite you to explore love and relationships as a transformative spiritual path. Drawing on decades of teaching, personal insights, and ancient wisdom, this course offers tools to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and deep intimacy with yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you.
What You’ll Learn
Through guided meditations, reflective exercises, and insightful teachings, you’ll explore:
1. Love as the Foundation of Spiritual Practice
Explore how love can be a guiding force in your life, offering a profound sense of trust, presence, and connection. Learn to live in a “field of love,” embracing impermanence and widening your circle of compassion to include all beings.
2. Healing Through Loving-Kindness (Metta)
Engage in metta meditation, a practice designed to radiate kindness and warmth to yourself, your loved ones, and even those who challenge you. Learn how loving-kindness serves as a powerful protector against fear, anxiety, and negativity, creating a foundation for greater ease and freedom in your life.
3. Self-Love and Self-Acceptance
Begin with yourself. Discover practices that help you embrace your body, mind, and heart just as they are. By transforming self-judgment into self-compassion, you’ll develop a stronger foundation for nurturing meaningful connections with others.
4. Navigating Conflict and Differences with Grace
Learn how to approach relational challenges with mindfulness and wisdom. Jack and Trudy offer practical guidance on listening deeply, dropping self-righteousness, and dissolving blame to foster understanding and resolution.
5. Forgiveness as a Path to Freedom
Dive into the transformative power of forgiveness. Through guided meditations and reflective exercises, you’ll learn how to forgive yourself and others, freeing your heart from the weight of anger, resentment, and pain.
6. Transforming Trauma into Growth
Understand how past experiences and defenses shape your relationships, and learn how to release old patterns with mindful loving awareness. This course offers tools to hold trauma with compassion, allowing healing and transformation to unfold.
7. The Bodhisattva Path of Love
Explore the Bodhisattva way of living with compassion, care, and service. Through simple yet profound practices, you’ll learn how to create a more loving and connected world, starting with your own relationships.
8. Guided Meditations to Deepen Connection
Jack and Trudy guide you through powerful meditations like “Seeing With the Eyes of Love” and “Shining Your Great Heart of Compassion.” These practices help you experience love and connection as natural states of being and strengthen your ability to bring these qualities into daily life.
9. Redefining Your Relationship Capacity
Discover how to let go of unrealistic expectations and judgments in relationships. Learn to appreciate the small gestures of love, embrace differences, and cultivate a steady, nourishing connection with yourself and others.
10. Awakening to Your True Nature
Through mindfulness and loving awareness, you’ll reconnect with the timeless essence of who you are. This deep connection with your true nature serves as the foundation for authentic, compassionate relationships.
This course provides not only transformative teachings but also practical tools to bring love, mindfulness, and spiritual wisdom into every relationship in your life. By the end of this journey, you’ll have a deeper understanding of yourself, a more open and compassionate heart, and a renewed ability to love and be loved.
What to expect from the course:
Guided Meditations
Practices include “Loving Yourself Just As You Are,” “Embodied Metta,” and “Seeing With the Eyes of Love.” These meditations deepen self-awareness and help you cultivate compassion for yourself and others.
Wisdom Teachings
Jack and Trudy share insights on impermanence, intimacy, mindfulness, and the spiritual path of love, weaving in ancient Buddhist teachings with personal reflections.
Practical Exercises
Reflect on journal prompts like: “What are you learning from your relationships?” and “What helps you with forgiveness?” These exercises foster self-discovery and help integrate the teachings into daily life.
Relationship Tools
Learn practical ways to sustain connection, navigate differences, and build healthy, balanced relationships, whether romantic, familial, or communal.
Course Syllabus
This course is a deep exploration of love and relationships as powerful spiritual practices. With Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman as your guides, you’ll discover insights and tools that will transform the way you relate to yourself and others. Each chapter, meditation, and exercise is designed to help you cultivate intimacy, compassion, and a heart full of loving awareness.
Love and Relationship: The Great Spiritual Practice
- Impermanence and what it means to live in a field of love
- The trustworthiness of love and mindfulness
- Ram Dass and the practice of loving awareness
- Impermanence and seeing with the eyes of love
- Widening our circle of love and mindfulness
- Ancestors, family, community, spiritual lineage
- Enlightenment as intimacy with all things
The Invitation of Mindfulness: Taking Your Body, Mind, Heart, Partner, and Experience ‘As Is’
- Approaches to mindfulness and meditation
- Dropping the goal and “getting real”
- Alan Watts, and experiencing meditation as music
- Jack and Trudy’s wedding ceremony wisdom
- Taking yourself and partner ‘as is’
Guided Meditation Practice: Loving Yourself Just As You Are
- Relaxing into the reality of the present moment
- Breathing along with all of reality
- Holding yourself in mindful loving attention
- Listening to the wisdom of the body, heart, and mind
- Offering deep gratitude to yourself for all you carry
- Entering the field of mindfulness as loving awareness
Freeing Our Hearts with Loving Kindness: Metta as a Protector from Fear and Anxiety
- Metta practice as a way to radiate warm friendliness
- Starting with what’s easy to love
- How to send loving kindness to difficult people
- Stretching the heart to be more malleable and inclusive
- Metta as protection from fear and anxiety
- Freeing our hearts with metta practice
- Holding the world with tender loving awareness
Sample Lecture
Who Is It For?
This course is for anyone seeking to deepen their capacity for love, navigate relational challenges with grace, and align their relationships with their spiritual path. Whether you’re cultivating self-love, strengthening a romantic partnership, or transforming your relationship with family and community, the teachings in this course provide a roadmap for living with greater intimacy, compassion, and joy.
How is this course different?
Jack and Trudy offer a unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern understanding, sharing from both their professional expertise and personal experience as partners. Their teaching style is warm, accessible, and filled with humor and humanity. Through their guidance, you’ll discover how every relationship can become a gateway to greater love, awareness, and freedom.
Join this transformative journey to discover how mindfulness and love can revolutionize your relationships and open your heart to life’s deepest possibilities.
“This whole life is relationship.” – Trudy Goodman
Sample Meditation
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- 8.5 hours of On-Demand course video
- 2 live Q&As with Jack
- Lifetime access to the content
- Access to online learning community
$299
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- 8.5 hours of On-Demand course video
- 2 live Q&As with Jack
- Lifetime access to the content
- Access to online learning community
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Jack Kornfield, PhD
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and worked on tropical medicine teams in the Mekong River valley. He met and studied as a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma.
Returning to the United States, Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings, and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a father, husband and activist.
Trudy Goodman, PhD
Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and in non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). The fourth teacher ever of MBSR, Trudy taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and studied Buddhist meditation for 40 years, with Asian and Western teachers. She is the Guiding Teacher and co-founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first center in the world dedicated to integrating these two disciplines, and had a private psychotherapy practice there for 25 years.
Trudy co-founded Family Path and Growing Spirit, family mindfulness programs, with Susan Kaiser Greenland in Los Angeles, and has worked with kids and families throughout her career.
Trudy teaches retreats and workshops worldwide; often teaching with her husband, Jack Kornfield.
FAQs
Do you offer a money back guarantee?
Yes, if for any reason you are not satisfied with the program please contact us within the first 30 days for a full refund.
I have more questions, can you help me?
Yes! Please email us at info@jackkornfield.com with any questions that you might have.
Can I participate from a different time zone?
Yes of course! We have students from all over the world participate in our courses.
How long will I have access to the course?
You will have lifetime access to the course.
I recently purchased the All Access Pass. Is this included?
All Access Plan purchases before January 28th 2025 do not include this course but you can contact us at info@jackkornfield.com for a 50% discount on the course.
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