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Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield – Live October 2025

Embark on a transformative journey with "Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield," a course designed to guide you through the wisdom, compassion, and freedom

Discovering your Buddha Nature with Jack Kornfield

The ten paramitas, or "perfections," are central to Buddhist teaching and practice. These perfections represent qualities to cultivate in order to progress along the path

How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman

Discover the profound wisdom of love as a spiritual path. Join Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman in this transformative course exploring intimacy, mindfulness, and compassion

Expanding Perspective Through Story and Myth

Sometimes we need a timeless story to help us begin to live from an expanded perspective.

Like Yeast for Bread: Understanding the Hindrances in Meditation and Life

As we try to steady the mind, the most common difficulties that arise in practice are called by the Buddha the five hindrances.

Jack Kornfield on Knowledge Project Podcast 156 – A Practical Guide on Finding Inner Peace

Author and Buddhist practitioner Jack Kornfield sits down for a candid, in-depth interview to help you suppress self-doubt and find inner calm. Calling on decades…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 124 – Conflict and Reconciliation

Conflict really starts in the heart with our attachments and our needs and our desires. We need to pause for a moment and reflect on

Jack Kornfield on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris – Ep. 315

You may ask: what’s the point of meditating when the world is on fire? Jack has extremely satisfying and practical answers.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 91 – Living with a Peaceful Heart

Equanimity is the willingness to be in life, but to be spacious and open, to have a vast perspective and say, “Yes, here I am,…

Fearing Death

If you understand—things are just as they are. If you do not understand—things are just as they are. —Zen saying From the universal perspective, all…

Dharma and Politics

Many Buddhist practitioners have questioned what to do in these turbulent times. More than anything, I believe the world is in need of a spiritual…

Open to Mystery

  Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Buddhist practice gives us…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 58 – Starting with the Fruit

Jack is joined by Frank Ostaseski to talk about rethinking our perspective on life and death and starting with the fruit of practice. “When you…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 55 – Seeing Anew

By shifting our perspective on our own experience, we can better understand the world around us. Jack shows the importance of becoming the witness and…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 44 – Attachment Revealed

To create and maintain appropriate boundaries we must first understand what it is as we are approaching attachment, commitment and love. Jack offers a definition…

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