[Video] Jack on Milton Friedman, Maha Ghosananda, Mirror Neurons, and the Goodness of the Heart

The World Needs Your Love

Guilt and anger and fear are part of the problem. If you want to save the world, save it because you love it! —Gary Snyder...

Parenting As Practice

Parenting is a labor love. It’s a path of service and surrender and, like the practice of a Buddha or bodhisattva, it demands patience and...

Service Is the Expression of the Awakened Heart

Years ago Ram Dass went to his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, to ask, “How can I best be enlightened?” His guru answered, “Love people.” When...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 28 – Freedom and The Way It Is (Part 1)

Freedom is not found in certainty, but in the wisdom that comes from seeing and embracing life as it is. Jack explores the different ways...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 22 – Bodhisattva

What attitude can we carry into a world of conflict and difficulty that will allow us to treasure and fully embody the work we do...

Tending the World

The Fruit of Letting Go

As we let go and still see others suffer, the heart fills with compassion. So much suffering is human-caused. We awaken to a poignancy and...

Vulnerability and the Tender Heart

Several years ago some friends arranged for the Gyuto Tantric Choir, the Tibetan monks famous for their deep multivocal chanting, to perform in San Quentin...

Tending the Garden

When we are willing to rest with trust on this earth, the great force of life will begin to move through us. I saw this...

Skillful Service is Born of a Quiet Heart

Wise intention and skillful service need to be nourished by periods of quiet and prayer. Every great tradition includes some from of the Sabbath. In...

Turning Difficulties into Healing

In the Arthurian legends, the young knight Parsifal joins the Knights of the Round Table to seek the Holy Grail. His mentor, Gournamond, tells him that to...