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…
The present moment is the doorway to true calm. It is the only place you can love or awaken—the eternal present. You cannot know the…
If you tend your inner life by taking time to meditate and connecting with your body and heart, after a while your nervous system learns…
While our true nature is like that of the Buddha, we still must honor our uniqueness and individuality. To come and meditate is to come…
Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Buddhist practice gives us…
Explore the three-fold training in Buddhism which shows us the vastness and love within when we quiet ourselves. “When you live with integrity, when you…
We all want to love and be loved. Love is the natural order, the main attraction, the mover of nations, the bees in spring, the…
Jack Kornfield and Frank Ostaseski discuss what it means to live a full life during a Monday night dharma talk at Spirit Rock. “In any…
The wisdom of uncertainty frees us from what Buddhist psychology calls the thicket of views and opinions. “Seeing misery in those who cling to views,…
Jack delivers a talk on how identity leads us to suffer and shares the Buddha’s path towards freedom from that suffering. The Buddha’s teachings are…
This week, Jack discusses the divine feminine along with the past and present roles of women in the Buddhist tradition. We each carry within us…