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Opening the Heart of Forgiveness with Jack Kornfield: A Journey of Reconciliation, Redemption, and Renewal – November 2025

Discover the Freedom of Forgiveness: Heal the Past, Embrace Compassion, and Live with an Open Heart

Masterclass in Interactive Guided Meditation

Join Jack Kornfield in this profound journey of interactive guided meditation. Through immersive teachings and real-time practices, deepen your connection to presence, compassion, and inner

Buddhist Psychology: Essential Skills For Transforming the Heart & Mind

Join Jack Kornfield in this rich exploration of the mind and heart through the lens of Buddhist psychology. Blending modern therapeutic insight with ancient wisdom,
The Nature of Mind

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 303 – The Nature of Mind: Practices and Perspectives for Inner Freedom

Jack Kornfield explores the nature of mind, offering playful practices and profound perspectives to uncover our true home of freedom, compassion, and ease.
The Healing Breath

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 280 –The Healing Breath: Reawakening the Body, Reconnecting with Life

Fostering the mind-body-heart connection, Jack shares how the healing breath reawakens the body and reconnects us with life.
clouds of the mind

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 228 – Clouds of the Mind

Going back to the basics, Jack explores how we can skillfully navigate our dynamic mood states by experiencing them as clouds of the mind.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 216 – Heart and Mind, Wholeness and Emptiness

In Jack’s heartfelt final talk at Insight Meditation Society, he explores heart and mind, wholeness and emptiness, and how the only way to be free

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 182 – A Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack connects with lifestyle expert Sarah Grynberg to talk about a life of greatness. “Really, meditation is about deep…

Steady the Mind

  Who is your enemy? Mind is your enemy. No one can harm you more than a mind untrained. Who is your friend? Mind is…

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…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 92 – Stories That Open the Mind, Mend the Heart and Lead to Joy

Sometimes you need a story more than food. Sometimes to hear a story and sometimes to tell it. We all carry personal stories we long…

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…

Love vs. Attachment

Each of the qualities of the awakened heart, such as love, joy and peace, have what are called “near enemies”—aspects which mimic and limit them.…

The Reality Below Thoughts

  As we observe our thoughts and question our beliefs, we come to understand that while thinking, planning and remembering are vital to our lives,…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 81 – Fostering Creativity

It is one thing to study the texts or to do various practices or come on a retreat to learn the Dharma tradition, but the…

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