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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

The Year of Awakening: A Monthly Journey with Jack Kornfield

Beginning Jan 2025, the Year of Awakening is a year-long online monthly journey, and a rare opportunity to learn directly with Jack!

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 181 – The Tenderness of Listening

Teaching us about breath work and presence, Jack guides a mindfulness meditation and discusses the beauty of listening. “You are not the body, you are…

Audio: The Practice Of Compassion Meditation

If there is one thing this world needs, it is more compassion. With tenderness and courage we can learn compassion for ourselves and others.

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…

The Temple of Healing

We all need healing at different times in our lives. Sometimes we need healing for physical illness. At other times, we need to heal the…

Audio: Forgiveness Meditation

Forgiveness is both necessary and possible. It is never too late to find forgiveness and start again. Buddhist psychology offers specific teachings and practices for…

Video: Forgiveness Meditation

Buddhist psychology offers specific teachings and practices for the development of forgiveness. Like the practice of compassion, forgiveness does not ignore the truth of our…

Lover of the Moment

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I…

Accepting One’s Quirky Personality

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell Looking closely at personality and temperament is…

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 45 – Stories from an Awakened Heart

Jack offers tales of tenderness that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which move us in the direction of freedom. What resources…

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