The Vastness Within

In these challenging times we’re being asked to see the world in a more timeless way, to live from a wisdom and reality of love that is...

[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 250 – Jack Kornfield and Jeffrey Mishlove on the Practice of Meditation

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 96 – An Homage to Goenka

In this special episode of the Heart Wisdom Podcast, we honor the life and wisdom of my early Vipassana teacher, S.N. Goenka. In every generation,...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 89 – Searching Inside Yourself w/ Chade-Meng Tan

In this podcast I’m joined by Chade-Meng Tan for an exploration of how spiritual practice and the search inside ourselves can guide us through our...

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...

Good Politics

A highlight of a recent teaching trip Trudy and I took to France and England was working with members of the British Parliament. After observing...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 77 – Path of Inner Development

As we reflect on the difficult and divisive time that the world finds itself in, let’s look at the ways that inner development, through mindfulness...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 67 – Who Am I?

Loving-awareness allows a profound shift of identity from a small limited sense of self to one of spacious wisdom. Exploring questions about freedom and identity...

Malleability and Insight: The Fruits of Concentration

Once concentrated, the mind can be directed in specific ways.  This function is called “malleability of mind” in Buddhist psychology.   It means that we can...

Inquiry and Observation

Wisdom grows out of our clear seeing in each moment. Seeing the arising and passing of our experience and how we relate to it. It...

The Nature of Hate

Hatred and aversion are all states of mind that strike against experience, pushing it away, rejecting what is presented in the moment. They do not...

Meditation for Beginners