Heart Wisdom – Ep. 116 – Equanimity and the Heart of Compassion

Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it’s understood in Buddhist psychology that if we only practice...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 115 – The Medicine of the Dharma

We need something else. We need a whole other way of living with one another. Who you are is consciousness itself, is loving awareness. You’re...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 114 – The Peaceful Heart

What is the peaceful heart? What keeps us from it? The near-enemy, the quality that masquerades as equanimity, is indifference. Indifference is a not-caring, it’s...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 112 – Racism and Independence

 Here is a talk I gave on racism and interdependence in 1993. The pursuit of racial justice is a most critical task, highlighted for...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 111 – Acts of Truth and Timeless Teachings

In this podcast, we discuss these 7 teachings of Atisha, the eleventh-century Indian sage: Explore the nature of timeless awareness. Don’t be swayed by outer...

Jack Kornfield on Your Undivided Attention Podcast, Ep. 19

When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 110 – Death, Identity, and the Heavenly Messengers

 The term “amravati” translates to “the deathless.” It is that which goes beyond birth and death. We, like the Buddhist monk’s, have the ability...

Audio: Worldwide Healing of Love

However difficult the times, suffering is not the end of the story—love is. May your spirit be strong. May you be safe and protected. May...

Jack Kornfield on The Duncan Trussell Family Hour – Ep. 379

Audio: The Return Of Joy

If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? There is an unquenchable human spirit born anew in each...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 109 – This Too Shall Pass

One of the best things that we can do in difficult times like these is to go deep inside, deep into the timeless sense of...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 108 – A Steadiness of Presence

In this episode we explore how the outer developments of humanity must be met with an inner development of consciousness. We talk about how meditation...