Spiritual Practice

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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,

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

Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield

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
letting life breathe

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 225 – Letting Life Breathe

Illuminating the deepening levels of spiritual practice, Jack explores how to let life breathe while setting your heart on gold.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 219 – How to Meditate When You Are Freaking Out with Yung Pueblo and Dan Harris

Bestselling author, Yung Pueblo, and reporter, Dan Harris, join Jack to dive into how to love without grasping, Ram Dass’s humor at his own predicament,…

Meditation, Freedom, and the True Emptiness of Self

Meditation techniques are mental disciplines that allow us to calm, focus, and examine the mind. This de-conditioning process is a slowing down and observation of

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. 160 – Practice In Daily Life: Intention

Is our intention to be right and cling to our points of view, or is it to listen deeply? The intention that we carry into

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 159 – Practice in Daily Life: Walking the Eightfold Path

Fundamentally, for spiritual practice to be alive in our life, we have to be able to use it in the supermarket, while we drive, when

Necessary Healing

Wise spiritual practice requires that we actively address the pain and conflict of our life in order to come to inner harmony. Without including the

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 138 – Guiding Your Own Practice

In this podcast we discuss ways to make spiritual practice real, meaningful, and alive in everyday life, and how to move from mind to heart

Jack Kornfield on the Bowing to Elephants Podcast – Ep. 26

In this episode of "Bowing to Elephants," Jack and Mag Dimond discuss Burma, renunciation, the spiritual effects of the pandemic, and more.

Letting Go of Repetitive Thoughts

Whatever we regularly think colors our experience—all day, every day. Once we start to watch these thoughts, we discover that 90% of them are reruns.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 132 – Finding Your Own Goodness

Part of the process of meditation and spiritual practice is to come to rest in our being, to a center that is unshakable. It doesn’t

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 131 – Heart of an Impeccable Warrior

Real courage is the courage of the heart… It’s the courage to investigate, to look, to see what’s true inside ourselves.

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