Awakening

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The Year of Awakening: A Monthly Journey with Jack Kornfield

Beginning Jan 2025, the Year of Awakening is a year-long online monthly journey, and a rare opportunity to learn directly with Jack!

Masterclass in Interactive Guided Meditation

Join Jack Kornfield in this profound journey of interactive guided meditation. Through immersive teachings and real-time practices, deepen your connection to presence, compassion, and inner

The Sacred Journey Home: Unearthed Teachings from a Timeless Retreat with Jack Kornfield

Step into a rare and heartfelt retreat, recorded over 30 years ago, where the roots of modern mindfulness began to take hold. In this soulful

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 167 – The Perfection of Truthfulness

Leaning into the qualities of an awakened heart, Jack teaches us the perfection of truthfulness and how it will set us free. There is a…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 154 – Awakening In The Midst Of Life

In this “Heart Wisdom” podcast episode we discuss the process of awakening, life’s 10,000 joys and sorrows, and what role time and the present moment

Video: The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom Dharma Talk

When I first entered the monasteries in Thailand and Burma, I was taught everything is anicca (impermanent), dukkha (unsatisfactory), and anatta (no-self). The reason these

Awakening Self-Compassion

Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. —Buddha We are so quick to judge one another. And just as we are hard on…

Blessings for the New Year

Dear ones, The year ends and we begin a new circuit around our own beautiful sun star, twirling amidst the galaxies. Take a breath, quiet…

Jack Kornfield on the Being Well Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson – S3, Ep. 75

On this episode we explore: Jack’s experience as a young man traveling to become a monk in Southeast Asia. The nature of awakening and ways…

Awaken the One Who Knows

As your spacious heart opens, you can rediscover the vast perspective you’d almost forgotten. A spacious heart reveals the spacious mind. This is the mind…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 86 – Entering with an Awakened Heart

Even in the most difficult times, it is possible to see something much bigger. We need to be able to envision another world—a world that…

Awakening Love

The Buddha taught that we can develop loving-kindness by visualizing how a caring mother holds her beloved child. Love is our true nature, but it…

Parenting As Practice

Parenting is a labor love. It’s a path of service and surrender and, like the practice of a Buddha or bodhisattva, it demands patience and…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 72 – Exploring the Eightfold Path

“In the ever-changing circumstance of the world – those outer circumstances are not what makes you happy. They will for a while, there is a…

Awakening to Your Buddha Nature

“O Nobly Born” the Buddhist texts begin, remember your Buddha Nature. Remember your innate capacity for dignity, understanding and vast compassion. These gifts were born…

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