Heart Wisdom – Ep. 115 – The Medicine of the Dharma

We need something else. We need a whole other way of living with one another. Who you are is consciousness itself, is loving awareness. You’re...

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...

Video: Compassion & Equanimity Meditation

Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it’s understood in Buddhist psychology that if we only practice...

Video: The Medicine of the Dharma

Video: Heart of Compassion Meditation

Compassion is the tenderness of the heart when it encounters suffering. For the circle of compassion to flow it requires the care of those suffering...

Loving Ram Dass

  After I got the call that Ram Dass had died yesterday, I closed my eyes.He is still here.I could feel the vast field of...

Jack Kornfield on The Duncan Trussell Family Hour – Ep. 365

Jack sat down with Duncan Trussell for his podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour to talk about the Dec. 2019 retreat with Ram Dass in...

Lead with the Heart

  The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.—Sri Nisargadatta When we carefully observe our thoughts, we discover that they are not in...

Audio: Transforming Difficult Emotions

Practicing with the power of loving awareness and interested attention to intense states in body and heart, we can create a field of deep understanding...

Audio: Spacious Awareness

Remember, wherever you are, spaciousness is always available. We know this, but we often forget. Yet spaciousness is not far away. With this simple meditation...

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,...