Jack on the Tim Ferriss Show – 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...

Audio: A Mind Like Sky Meditation

Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small...

Accepting One’s Quirky Personality

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell Looking closely at personality and temperament is...