Heart Wisdom – Ep. 173 – Death as an Advisor

Reflecting on impermanence, Jack explains that despite our physical frailty our spirit can never truly die. Where can we go when we die? Jack explores...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 172 – Mindfulness of Death

Mindfully navigating death, we learn from Jack how to appreciate the vulnerability of one’s final moments on earth. Jack describes the truth death pushes us...

Jack Kornfield on The Duncan Trussell Family Hour – Ep. 518

Honoring Grief

Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. When we grieve we allow ourselves to feel the truth of our pain, the measure...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 134 – On Death

We can be the loving witness of this life, yet not cling to it. We can cherish life, yet in the end we will have...

Video: Dharma Talk on Death

How can we find a freedom of heart in this world of birth and death? We can start by acknowledging that everything is subject to...

Video: Align Yourself with Goodness Meditation

Envision a field of goodness—there are a billion acts of goodness happening in the world right now by parents, children, friends, teachers, nurses, doctors, artists,...

The Practice of Forgiveness

Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law. —Buddha Without forgiveness we are chained to...

Audio: Meditation on Grief II

When great loss comes, the heart needs to grieve. We need to find a way to honor and tend our grief, to respect its deep...

Fearing Death

If you understand—things are just as they are. If you do not understand—things are just as they are. —Zen saying From the universal perspective, all...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 78 – Nachiketa and the Lord of Death

We revisit the adventure from the Upanishads of Nachiketa and his odyssey to meet with the Lord of Death. We look at the wisdom to...

Healing the Heart

Just as we open and heal the body by sensing its rhythms and touching it with a deep and kind attention, so we can open...