Understanding Your Own Mind

In popular Western culture we are taught that the way to achieve happiness is to change our external environment to fit our wishes. But this...

Do Not Despair

The Buddhist approach to this collective suffering is to turn toward it. We understand that genuine happiness and meaning will come through tending to suffering....

Happiness and Tranquillity

In our busy world, we tend to overlook the capacity we have to allow the mind to settle down and rest, to become deeply silent...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 72 – Exploring the Eightfold Path

“In the ever-changing circumstance of the world – those outer circumstances are not what makes you happy. They will for a while, there is a...

Audio: The Generous Heart

To cultivate generosity directly is another fundamental part of living a spiritual life. Like meditation, generosity can actually be practiced. With practice, its spirit forms...

Learning the Middle Path

Learning the Middle Path, the life of balance, allows the heart’s natural awareness and compassion to grow. We become free and gracious. I heard a...

Karma, Intention & Wise Speech

People often struggle to understand karma. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect, and in our lives this law of cause and effect...

Happiness Now

After more than 40 years teaching mindfulness and compassion to thousands on the spiritual path, the most important message I can offer is this: You...

Jack Kornfield on Architects of Change LIVE with Maria Shriver

The Truth about Suffering

Without understanding the source of suffering, human beings strive to gain happiness by possessiveness and greed, through violence and hatred. We act out of delusion...

Jack Kornfield on Live Happy Now Podcast

What you’ll learn in this podcast:* How to be more mindful in the present* The benefits of meditation to your overall well-being* How to reset...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 57 – Surprising Delights of Renunciation

Although it may be difficult to equate happiness and renunciation; Jack illuminates the complexity of renunciation, and where in our life we can already find...