Tipping the Scales to Compassion: Becoming a Makeweight of Hope

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 279 – Standing Up For Compassion: A Wise Rudder in Turbulent Politics

Standing up for compassion in this powerful new Dharma Talk, Jack offers a steady spiritual rudder for navigating turbulent politics with the heart of a...

Always Look for the Helpers: Staying Steady and Hopeful Amidst Upheaval

The children’s Bodhisattva, Mr. Rogers, describes how his mother taught him to see the disasters of the world in a new way. Instead of focusing...

[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 265 – Navigating Politics, Impermanence, Suffering, and the Great Turning of the World

Video: Courage in Our Difficult Time

The value of our harshest difficulties is how honestly they cause us to question, how they intensify our courage and bring alive our deepest inner...

Audio: The Return Of Joy

If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? There is an unquenchable human spirit born anew in each...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 106 – Responding to Fear, Tragedy & Injustice

For this episode, we went back into the archives to just a few weeks after the events of 9/11 for a lesson on how we...

The Courageous Heart

As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the explorer, bravely facing danger. In the Buddhist understanding, however,...

Fear of Freedom

People often prefer a very limited, punishing regime—rather than face the anxiety of freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Along with the joy of freedom is a...

Vulnerability and the Tender Heart

“Ultimately it is on our vulnerability that we depend.”—Rilke As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the...

Speak the Truth and Stand Up for Justice

The opposite of aggression is not passivity, it is true strength. When we have lost a sense of our innate nobility,we mistakenly believe in our...

Lean into the Wind

You are part of the web of life, so you don’t need to hold on so tightly. Ultimately, who you are is awareness itself. No...