Videos
Video: Wonder, Mystery, Awe, Gratitude
We are spiritual beings incarnated into human form. We need to remember our zip code as well as our Buddha nature. We are creatures of this paradox. By neither grasping nor resisting life, we can find wakefulness and freedom in the midst of our joys and sorrows.
Video: “Just Like Me” Compassion Practice & Meditation
How do we relate to people who are wildly different? In truth, we have more in common than not. When we can see one another with the heart and eyes of wisdom, we’re reminded that there is something bigger than all our ideas.
Video: Beyond the Dilemma: Unpacking Solutions to The Social Dilemma
Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and The Center for Humane Technology co-founders Tristan Harris and Randy Fernando discuss the asymmetry of power highlighted by Tristan and Randy in the docudrama “The Social Dilemma” and identify solutions for a more balanced life and world.
Video: Election Day Dharma Talk
It’s an important time to come together. We don’t want outer conflicts to take over the heart. Then we can venture into the conflict of the world with a peaceful heart and plant and water seeds of goodness.
Video: Align Yourself with Goodness Meditation
Envision a field of goodness—there are a billion acts of goodness happening in the world right now by parents, children, friends, teachers, nurses, doctors, artists, cooks, healers—so many of us tending one another with love.
Video: Beauty and Human Goodness Amidst It All Dharma Talk
We can tune into the goodness of the world that’s not always featured in the news. This is an invitation to understand equanimity and to see with the eyes of wisdom.
Video: Quiet Mind, Steady Heart Meditation
During these challenging times it’s important to steady our hearts so we can tend ourselves and then respond and tend the world around us from a place of a wiser, more peaceful heart.
Video: How We Keep Our Mind, How We Steady Our Heart
This is a time when the veils have been lifted—with the pandemic, climate change, & calls for justice we see that we are not separate. When we meditate from a place of “don’t know mind,” not clinging to our view of what we think is supposed to be right, we start to see that our heart is big enough to hold it all.
Video: Listening with the Heart Dharma Talk
What these divisive times call for more than anything else is an ability to listen with the heart. The Buddha explained that if the members of a society come together and listen to each other in harmony and with respect for one another, they will prosper and not decline.
Video: Listening with the Heart Meditation
Meditation is a deep listening with the body, heart and mind to find a graciousness, wisdom, and ease amidst all the change around us. Invite a sense of calm and steadiness with each breath. You are the loving awareness that is tuning in. What does your heart most want you to remember, care for, tend?
Video: Suffering Is Not the End of the Story
Suffering is not the end of the story. We can get lost in our suffering. But we can also be witness to bravery and the possibility of life. Mindfulness can help us live wisely amidst difficulties.
Video: Calm and Ease Meditation
This meditation is for calming your heart and mind. Steady yourself by relaxing into the breath. When your breath becomes soft, let your attention become gentle and careful, as soft as the breath itself. You will find awareness of the breath helping to steady and quiet your whole body and mind.
Video: Right Effort Dharma Talk
What is right effort? Simply the effort to be mindful, to notice what is happening in the present moment without judging it. In Zen it is called effortless effort. Effortless effort is not an effort to gain or attain anything, but simply the discipline and effort to stay aware in the present.
Video: The Peaceful Heart
This dharma talk explores how the combination of compassion and equanimity can give rise to a peaceful heart even in times of turmoil and great change.
Video: Compassion & Equanimity Meditation
Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it’s understood in Buddhist psychology that if we only practice lovingkindness and compassion, we can mistakenly get attached to the way we think things are supposed to be.
Video: What the World Needs Now: Courage, Mindfulness, and Love
Enjoy this free replay of a remarkable evening of shared teachings during which author and activist Valarie Kaur, mindfulness coach George Mumford, meditation teacher Tara Brach and I discussed love in action—how we can create a more caring, equitable and joyful world.
Video: Love in Action
Enjoy this free replay of a remarkable evening of shared teachings during which author and activist Valarie Kaur, mindfulness coach George Mumford, meditation teacher Tara Brach and I discussed love in action—how we can create a more caring, equitable and joyful world.
Video: The Medicine of the Dharma
In this dharma talk, Jack discusses the health, economic and moral crises the world is facing.
Video: Heart of Compassion Meditation
Compassion is the tenderness of the heart when it encounters suffering. For the circle of compassion to flow it requires the care of those suffering around you but that circle must include one other being–yourself.
Video: Timeless Teachings in a Time of Pandemic
In this dharma talk, we discuss these 7 teachings of Atisha, the eleventh-century Indian sage: Explore the nature of timeless awareness. Don’t be swayed by outer circumstances. Be grateful to everyone. Consider all phenomena to be dreams.
Video: Temple of Healing Meditation
This healing meditation includes some guided imagery and visualization.
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 purpose, how they reawaken our soul’s task on earth. In willingly facing the unknown, we offer trust in a greater...
Video: Ancient Wisdom Informing Medicine in the Time of Pandemic
"Ancient Wisdom Informing Medicine in the Time of Pandemic" with Josefa Rangel, M.D., and Taoist master Cain Carroll. April 8, 2020 Visit the Pandemic Resources page on my website for meditations & other materials.
Video: Dharma Talk & Meditation with Tricycle Magazine
This talk & meditation addresses heightened anxiety & isolation due to the COVID–19 heath crisis.
Video: Practices to Steady the Heart with Trudy Goodman
Join me and Trudy Goodman for powerful and caring ways to tend the mind and body, and steady the heart in this uncertain time.
Video Series: Awakening Presence & Love During This Time of Global Crisis with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach
If ever there’s been a time for us to nourish our connection with each other and to explore the ways we can deepen our love and presence, this is it.
Video: Jack Kornfield on #HomeTogether with Maria Shriver
How can we stay grounded during these difficult times? With Maria Shriver, #HomeTogether on 3/29/20
Video Series: A Steady Heart in Time of Coronavirus with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach
During times of difficulty, it is crucial to find ways to steady the heart, to connect compassionately with ourselves and with each other.
Video: Jack Kornfield on Ten Percent Happier LIVE Ep.5
How can we mindfully navigate difficult times? With Dan Harris, Ten Percent Happier Live on 3/20/20.
Video: Calm, Clarity, Compassion
This is an excerpt of a talk Jack Kornfield gave with environmentalist Paul Hawken on March 2, 2020 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on how to stay grounded and steady as we navigate the spread of the Coronavirus and other challenges.The need for the Dharma is...
Video: Reflections on the life and teachings of Ajahn Chah
Meditation and reflections on the life and teachings of my teacher Ajahn Chah.
Video: The Power of Connection: Kindness and Compassion in the Digital Age (Wisdom 2.0)
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by global problems. Climate change. Wars across the Middle East. Streams of refugees. Racism. Prison reform. Homelessness. Economic injustice. Political gridlock. These are part of the fabric of the human race at this time. But the...
Video: Jack Kornfield on the Mindrolling Podcast (#223) with Raghu Markus
If you tend your inner life by taking time to meditate and connecting with your body and heart, after a while your nervous system learns to settle down more and you can return to that place. From the place of stillness, you can see more clearly and you can love more...
Video: Love Dharma Talk
This is the last talk of ten. Throughout 2017, Jack spoke about the ten paramis, or perfections of a buddha: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, right effort, patience, truthfulness, resolve, equanimity, and loving-kindness. The effort in our own lives to...
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 suffering. Forgiveness is not weak. It demands courage and integrity. Yet only forgiveness and...
Video: Right Effort
Throughout 2017, Jack spoke about the ten paramis, or perfections of a buddha: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, right effort, patience, truthfulness, resolve, equanimity, and loving-kindness. The effort in our own lives to develop these paramis should not...
Jack Kornfield on Architects of Change LIVE with Maria Shriver
Jack Kornfield on Architects of Change LIVE with Maria Shriver
Video: Living a Full Life
Jack Kornfield and Frank Ostaseski discuss what it means to live a full life during a Monday night dharma talk at Spirit Rock. "In any moment, we can be truly present, loving and free. This is our birthright—no one can imprison our spirit. "When you practice insight...
Video: Learning to Surf
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification. We can begin to sense and observe the changing mind, body, and heart the way a meteorologist observes changes in the weather: ‘‘It’s cloudy, the barometer is...