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...
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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 241 – The Paradox of Self and No-Self
Exploring life as a flowing, dynamic process, Jack shares the jewel of Buddha’s awakening by unraveling the paradox of self and no-self.
Jack on the Tim Ferriss Show – How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness
Jack joins his friend Tim Ferriss to discuss how to reduce anxiety and polish the lens of consciousness.
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 185 – Grey Matter with Michael Krasny
This week, Jack joins Michael Krasny for a conversation diving into mindfulness, loneliness, compassion, gratitude, suffering, meditation, and the Dharma. “With mindfulness you learn to...
Intention and the New Year
One beautiful way to honor the turning of the seasons and illuminate the heart in the darkest time of the year (in the north) is...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 149 – Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart
When we plant unhealthy seeds of ignorance, greed, fear, hatred, and delusion and allow them to grow, they bring enormous suffering. But there are also...
Video: Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart Dharma Talk
What kind of seeds are you planting and tending with your words and your deeds? Every seed watered can become something that changes the world....
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...
Video: The Peaceful Heart
This dharma talk explores how the combination of compassion and equanimity can give rise to a peaceful heart even in times of turmoil and great...
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...
The Colorings of Consciousness
Consciousness is colored by the states that visit it.—Buddha “Eh,” my teacher Ajahn Chah would peer at me when I was having a hard time,...
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...
