Buddhism

Recommended Courses

Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield – Live October 2025

Embark on a transformative journey with "Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield," a course designed to guide you through the wisdom, compassion, and freedom

Discovering your Buddha Nature with Jack Kornfield

The ten paramitas, or "perfections," are central to Buddhist teaching and practice. These perfections represent qualities to cultivate in order to progress along the path

How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships 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

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 144 – A Peaceful Heart in a Time of War & the Legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh

This dharma talk was recorded on 2/28/22. I had planned to talk about Thich Nhat Hanh, the great and wise Zen master and teacher who

Finding the Middle Way

If we seek happiness purely through indulgence, we are not free. If we fight against ourselves and reject the world, we are not free. It

Video: A Peaceful Heart In A Time Of War And The Legacy Of Thich Nhat Hanh

As it says in the Buddhist teachings, in this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. Make prayers. Make blessings.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 141 – How and Why We Become Enlightened

In this podcast, we explore how we can experience the qualities of enlightenment at different times and in different ways.

Jack Kornfield & Katy Butler remember Thich Nhat Hanh on KCRW’s “Life Examined” Podcast

KCRW's Jonathan Bastian spoke with Jack and journalist Katy Butler about "Thay's" life, legacy, and practices of mindfulness, compassion, and interconnectivity.

Jack Kornfield on the Mindrolling Podcast with Raghu Markus – Ep. 425 – Intuition, Negativity, & Forgiveness

Jack joins Noah Markus & Raghu Markus for a conversation weaving together Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, intuition, negativity, creativity, forgiveness, and letting go.

Jack Kornfield on the Bowing to Elephants Podcast – Ep. 26

In this episode of "Bowing to Elephants," Jack and Mag Dimond discuss Burma, renunciation, the spiritual effects of the pandemic, and more.

Letting Go of Repetitive Thoughts

Whatever we regularly think colors our experience—all day, every day. Once we start to watch these thoughts, we discover that 90% of them are reruns.

Jack Kornfield on The Duncan Trussell Family Hour – Ep. 469

Jack and Duncan Trussell discuss Buddhism, mindfulness, and the waves of change for Duncan's podcast "The Duncan Trussell Family Hour."

Compassion is Our Nature

Through meditation we gradually open the boundaries of consciousness to compassion for all beings, as if they were part of our family. We learn that

Video: Dharma Talk on Death

How can we find a freedom of heart in this world of birth and death? We can start by acknowledging that everything is subject to

Video: Listening with the Heart Dharma Talk

When we learn to rest in awareness, our whole being can both comprehend the situation and be at ease. We see the dance of life,

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