Tipping the Scales to Compassion: Becoming a Makeweight of Hope
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something good.…
Tag: Compassion
[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 279 – Standing Up For Compassion: A Wise Rudder in Turbulent Politics
Standing up for compassion in this powerful new Dharma Talk, Jack offers a steady spiritual rudder for navigating turbulent politics with the heart of…
[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 278 – Guided Metta Meditation: Becoming a Beacon of Kindness
Offering a powerful guided metta practice for current times, Jack teaches listeners how to open the heart and become a beacon of kindness for ourselve…
Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times: Transforming Despair and Anxiety with Love and Courage
In this world we deal with loss and difficulty—there's climate change, continuing racism, injustice, refugees suffering around the world, and our gr…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 276 – Healing With Love: Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times with Trudy Goodman
Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman join forces in an exploration of Buddha’s eternal wisdom: ‘hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is he…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 275 – Desire, Love, and Spiritual Passion
Love is in that air as Jack explores the nature of desire, relationships, and spiritual passion—offering wisdom on stabilizing the heart, navigating…
Stand Up For Compassion
We are living in wild times. I have been shocked and concerned by the ramifications of many of our new governmental policies. In the midst of the cur…
Always Look for the Helpers: Staying Steady and Hopeful Amidst Upheaval
The children's Bodhisattva, Mr. Rogers, describes how his mother taught him to see the disasters of the world in a new way. Instead of focusing just o…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 272 – The Art of Reconciliation: Cultivating Harmony Through Listening and Truth
Jack helps us heal conflicts, release defensiveness, and cultivate the harmony of wise relationships through the art of reconciliation, deep listening…
[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 271 – Diffusing Triggers, Reframing Trauma, and Surviving Suffering with Thomas Hübl, PhD
Opening the doorway to transformation, Jack and Dr. Hübl explore spiritual discernment, identity, “central casting,” overcoming nervous system tr…
Rediscovering the Secret Beauty Within: Opening to Love, Presence, and Connection
What you most deeply long for is who you are, is coming back to your own heart, to your own beauty, your own wellbeing that you were born with, to tha…
Just Like Me – A Guided Meditation for Cultivating Compassion
When we gaze over at another in a simple way and see them with the eyes of wisdom, we’re reminded that it’s a bigger and different game than all o…
