Audio: Refuge in Difficult Times
In times of stress, it’s important to discover ways to quiet our minds and tend our hearts. This meditation and visualization can help us cultivate …
Tag: Suffering
Navigating Rough Waters
Living our highest intentions can happen in great ways or in what may seem small—yet critical—ways of refusing to be conquered by the difficulties…
Video: Compassionate Heart Dharma Talk
With mindfulness we can open to the mystery of our human incarnation—to gaze with an open heart at the unbearable beauty and the ocean of tears that…
Mindfulness of Feelings
Feelings are ever-present. They are a mysterious and rich dimension of our human life. But without mindfulness of them we can react automatically, hab…
Courage of the Heart
Very often what nourishes our spirit most is what brings us face to face with our greatest limitations and difficulties. Every life has periods and si…
Awakening Self-Compassion
Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. —Buddha We are so quick to judge one another. And just as we are hard on…
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 all conflicts tha…
Video: Reconciliation Meditation
To recite the intention of reconciliation is to willingly plant a seed of reconnection and love in our heart. As we repeat each phrase, we turn our in…
Video: Reconciliation Dharma Talk
Conflict is natural—we can be attached to our needs, desires, ideas and visions. Our brains are wired with a negativity bias to look for things that…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 122 – Suffering Is Not the End of the Story
The point of liberation is not to transcend this world, to find some peaceful bliss, to run away to some cave. The point of liberation is to see the m…
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.
Jack Kornfield on the ReRooted Podcast with Francesca Maximé – Ep. 44 – Accepting Your Assignment
The most profound healing comes when we see one another with the eyes of love, when we see the secret beauty of that person in front of us, and they r…
