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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Believe in Your Goodness
Robert Johnson, the noted Jungian analyst, acknowledges how difficult it is for many of us to believe in our goodness. We more easily take our...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 69 – A Foundation of Resolve
Whether it shows outwardly or is held inwardly, we all inevitably will face difficulty and suffering in life. Adhiṭṭhāna, one of the 10 pāramitās or...
Learning the Middle Path
“Learning the Middle Path, the life of balance, allows the heart’s natural awareness and compassion to grow. We become free and gracious.” – Jack Kornfield...
Right Understanding
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question...
The Temple of Healing
We all need healing at different times in our lives. Sometimes we need healing for physical illness. At other times, we need to heal the...
Open to Mystery
Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Buddhist practice gives us...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 60 – Vastness and Love
Explore the three-fold training in Buddhism which shows us the vastness and love within when we quiet ourselves. “When you live with integrity, when you...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 59 – A Bodhisattva in the World
A Bodhisattva is one who has tread the path to freedom laid out by the Buddha and dedicates their life to sharing that with the...
Video: Right Effort
Throughout 2017, Jack spoke about the ten paramis, or perfections of a buddha: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, right effort, patience, truthfulness, resolve, equanimity, and loving-kindness....
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 57 – Surprising Delights of Renunciation
Although it may be difficult to equate happiness and renunciation; Jack illuminates the complexity of renunciation, and where in our life we can already find...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 54 – The Seat of Awakening
On this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack explores what it means to take the seat of awakening. Jack tells the story of the Buddha’s literal...
