The Sacred Dialogues:
Freedom of Spirit, Opening the Heart
A course with Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass
Begins February 23rd
A rare, intimate transmission on love, awareness, and what remains when we stop striving.
An Invitation
This course is not about learning more techniques.
It is about remembering what already lives within you.
Over decades of friendship, teaching, and shared practice, Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass returned again and again to the same essential questions:
How do we live a spiritual life in the midst of the world?
How do love and awareness meet suffering without turning away?
What remains when roles, identity, and striving grow quiet?
The Sacred Dialogues is a curated collection of those reflections—offered not as a program to complete, but as companionship on the path.
What This Course Offers
This course isn’t a system or a method.
It’s more like a conversation that’s been unfolding for a long time—shaped by real life, not ideals. By love and loss. By aging and service. By moments of laughter, and moments when we’re brought to our knees and have to listen more carefully.
Over the years, Ram Dass and I kept returning to the same simple questions—not to get better answers, but to let them work on us.
Through stories, reflections, and a few gentle invitations to pause and notice, this course explores what many of us discover as the path matures:
That loving awareness isn’t something we figure out.
It’s something we remember, again and again, right where we are.
That relationship—imperfect, tender, unfinished—can be one of our deepest spiritual teachers.
That insight doesn’t ask us to rise above our emotions, but to meet them with a little more kindness and patience.
And that surrender and service aren’t the end of the path, but the way it begins to feel more trustworthy.
This course is for those who sense a quiet shift happening—
from trying to get somewhere,
to learning how to be here;
from needing certainty,
to trusting the heart enough to stay.
Your Journey Unfolds Through Four Sacred Modules
This course unfolds as a guided journey through the maturation of the heart, shaped by decades of friendship, practice, and lived inquiry between Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass. Each module explores a dimension of the spiritual path as it is actually lived—not in ideal conditions, but in the midst of relationship, fear, love, aging, loss, and service.
From Roles to Soul
Remembering Who We Are Beneath Identity
We begin at the place where many spiritual journeys quietly turn: identity.
In this opening module, Jack and Ram Dass explore how roles, stories, and self-images form—and how they can both support and limit us. Rather than rejecting identity or striving to transcend it, this module invites a gentler inquiry: What happens when we hold identity lightly?
Through stories and reflection, you’ll explore:
How identity shapes perception, behavior, and belonging
The difference between healthy function and over-identification
What it means to live from essence rather than image
Awareness as a refuge beneath changing circumstances
This module helps establish a grounded foundation for the rest of the course, orienting you toward humility, curiosity, and presence—without asking you to abandon your humanity.
The Heart Path
Love, Devotion, and Relationship as Practice
The second module turns directly toward the heart—not as sentiment or ideal, but as a living field of practice.
Drawing from the bhakti tradition and lived relational experience, Jack and Ram Dass explore how love matures over time. Here, love is not something we manufacture or give from one person to another. It is something we begin to recognize.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Loving awareness as a way of being, not a feeling to sustain
Devotion as surrender rather than belief or ideology
Relationship as a mirror, teacher, and doorway to awakening
How to open the heart without losing discernment or boundaries
This module speaks directly to those who long to bring spirituality into relationship—with partners, family, community, and the wider world—rather than holding it apart as a private or transcendent experience.
Fierce Grace
Risking Being Fully Human
This is the emotional and psychological heart of the course.
In Fierce Grace, Jack and Ram Dass speak with rare honesty about the places where spiritual ideals collide with lived reality: trauma, fear, grief, therapy, shame, and emotional complexity.
Rather than framing awakening as transcendence of difficulty, this module explores awakening as the capacity to stay present and compassionate in the midst of difficulty.
Topics include:
The relationship between emptiness and emotional life
Therapy and meditation as complementary, not competing, paths
The costs of spiritual bypass and premature transcendence
Vulnerability as a doorway rather than a failure
This module offers deep validation for those who have practiced sincerely and still find themselves struggling—and who wonder whether something has gone wrong.
Walking Each Other Home
Service, Surrender, and What Remains
Drawing from Ram Dass’s later years after his stroke, and Jack’s reflections on aging and service, this module explores what remains when roles soften and accomplishments recede.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Surrender as wisdom rather than resignation
Service as love in action, not obligation
Being present with illness, aging, and death
Trusting what endures beyond identity and effort
Rather than offering answers about mortality or meaning, this module invites a deeper companionship with impermanence—and with one another.
Everything You Need for Your Journey
🎥
21+ Teachings
Video and audio teachings with Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass
🧘♀️
Guided Meditations
Guided Meditations from Jack and Ram Dass
📝
Reflection Prompts
Journaling invitations to deepen your practice
♾️
Lifetime Access
Return whenever you need these teachings
Experience a Moment of Teaching
Feel the warmth and wisdom of Jack and Ram Dass's presence in this sample from the course
A Personal Invitation from Jack
This course brings together teachings, conversations, reflections, and meditations that Ram Dass and I shared over many years — in retreat halls, classrooms, interviews, and quiet moments of practice. Some of these recordings go back decades; others come from the later years of Ram Dass’s life. Together, they form a living arc of the heart.
Ram Dass had a unique way of pointing us back to what matters. With humor and honesty, he reminded us to be here now, to remember that we are souls, not roles, and to meet ourselves and one another with kindness. Again and again, he invited us into what he called loving awareness — not as an idea, but as a way of being.
As you move through this course, I encourage you to take it slowly. Let the words land. Let the stories work on you in their own time. You don’t need to agree with everything or understand it all. What matters most is what opens your heart, what steadies you, and what helps you live with a little more compassion and ease.
Ram Dass used to say that we’re all just walking each other home. This course is offered in that same spirit — as companionship on the path, and as a reminder that you’re not walking alone.
Thank you for being part of this shared exploration.
May these teachings support you in remembering who you are.
What Shifts When You Take This Journey
Remembering What We’ve Been Avoiding
When we finally stop and turn toward what we’ve been outrunning—grief, longing, fear, tenderness—we discover that presence was never missing. It was simply waiting for our attention
Making Peace with Ourselves
When we meet our wounds with care instead of judgment, the struggle softens. Self-acceptance isn’t a conclusion—it’s the beginning of learning how to live without inner warfare.
Discovering We Belong
As the heart opens, the story of separation loosens. We begin to sense that our lives are woven together—that relationship itself is one of our greatest teachers.
Letting Life Carry Us
There comes a moment when effort relaxes and trust takes its place. The breath breathes itself. The path unfolds. Surrender reveals itself not as giving up, but as being held.
Opening to Fear with Love
Fear doesn’t disappear through avoidance. It transforms when it’s met with compassion. In that meeting, something steadier than fear begins to guide us.
Resting in What Is
This path isn’t about becoming better or more special. It’s about becoming real—learning how to rest in awareness, right in the middle of this imperfect, beautiful life.
Some Practices You'll Experience
Each one invites you to stay present with your life as it is—meeting experience with awareness, kindness, and honesty.
🧘
Loving Awareness Practice
Cultivating awareness that meets experience—pleasant and difficult—with kindness and presence.
🧘
Loving-Kindness (Metta) Practice
Bringing goodwill and compassion toward oneself and others, including in everyday situations
🧘
Breath Awareness / The Breathing Body
Allowing the breath to breathe itself and resting awareness in the body’s natural rhythms.
🧘
Resting in Awareness with Thoughts & Emotions
Learning to stay present as thoughts, feelings, and sensations arise and pass
🧘
Staying with Difficulty
Developing the capacity to remain with fear, grief, pain, and vulnerability without avoidance
🧘
Turning Difficulty into the Path
Transforming challenging patterns into sources of insight, compassion, and wisdom
This Course Is For You If...
✓ Have been practicing for some time and feel drawn toward integration rather than improvement
✓ Are navigating transition, loss, illness, or aging—and don’t want to do it alone
✓ Serve others as a caregiver, therapist, teacher, or leader and need nourishment for your own heart
✓ Long for a spirituality that includes tenderness, vulnerability, and relationship
✓ Feel ready to listen more than strive
You don't need to "do it right."
You just need to show up—with your breath, your honesty, and a willingness to begin.
Join Today
Full Payment
- 21 Lectures
- Lifetime access to the content
- Access to online learning community
- 2 Live Q &A's with Jack
$299
Payment Plan
- 21 Lectures
- Lifetime access to the content
- Access to online learning community
- 2 Live Q & A's with Jack
11 payments of $29
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.
Additional Benefits
Satisfaction Guaranteed
If you are not completely satisfied, we will promptly issue you a refund within 30 days from the start of the course
Group Program
Save 15% when you sign up with a buddy or a group – Fill out our contact form to get started
Safe and Secure
We provide our courses using the latest technology to ensure security
