Taming Addictive Tendencies of the Mind
Restraint serves as a counterbalance to the addictive tendencies of mind. There is a story in the Buddhist texts of a monkey living happily and...
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Lover of the Moment
In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I...
Jack Kornfield on the Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg – Ep. 59
Sharon and Jack Kornfield originally met in the 1970s in Colorado and went on to found the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA along with...
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...
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...
Choose Love
We all want to love and be loved. Love is the natural order, the main attraction, the mover of nations, the bees in spring, the...
The Beauty of Beginner’s Mind
The wisdom of uncertainty frees us from what Buddhist psychology calls the thicket of views and opinions. “Seeing misery in those who cling to views,...
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...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 51 – Identity and Freedom
Jack delivers a talk on how identity leads us to suffer and shares the Buddha’s path towards freedom from that suffering. The Buddha’s teachings are...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 44 – Attachment Revealed
To create and maintain appropriate boundaries we must first understand what it is as we are approaching attachment, commitment and love. Jack offers a definition...
Video: Exploring the Shadow (Wisdom 2.0)
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 worst...
