Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom hour celebrates Jack’s ability to mash up his long established Buddhist practices with many other mystical traditions, revealing the poignancy of life’s predicaments and the path to finding freedom from self-interest, self-judgment and unhappiness.

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03.22.2023

Teaching us about breath work and presence, Jack Kornfield guides a mindfulness meditation and discusses the beauty of listening. "You are not the body, you are the mindful loving awareness that notices this body with kindness and care." – Jack ...

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03.22.2023 Ep. 181 – The Tenderness of Listening Teaching us about breath work and presence, Jack Kornfield guides a mindfulness meditation and discusses the beauty of listening. "You are not the body, you are the mindful loving awareness that notices this body with kindness and care." – Jack ...
03.14.2023 Ep. 180 – One Dharma with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein explore the emergence of Western Buddhism and balancing faith with wisdom. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "In ...
02.27.2023 Ep. 179 – Feminine Face of Dharma In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield teaches us about fostering femininity in our dharma practice. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom In this ...
02.13.2023 Ep. 178 – Ocean of Breath In this episode, Jack Kornfield helps us discover how the ocean of breath can lead to greater compassion for all. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: ...
02.07.2023 Ep. 177 – Intention and Purpose in Practice By telling stories of the Buddha, Jack Kornfield directs us on the purpose of practice and the laws of Dharma. "What we repeatedly direct our mind to in this society is consumerism and materialism and addictions of different kinds. What ...
01.30.2023 Ep. 176 – The Dharma Body In simple, heartfelt presence, Jack Kornfield teaches us about coming into the dharma body. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "You can see it in ...
01.24.2023 Ep. 175 – Intention to Awaken Jack Kornfield describes the Buddha's vow to awakening and how we too can set a daily intention to awaken. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, John Lockley, ...
01.18.2023 Ep. 174 – Intention and Transformation Moving beyond our small sense of self, Jack Kornfield introduces us to the ways intention, love, and acceptance can transform us. Amidst our ever-changing lives, we can find the patterns which form from our hearts and realize the source of ...
01.11.2023 Ep. 173 – Death as an Advisor Reflecting on impermanence, Jack Kornfield explains that despite our physical frailty our spirit can never truly die. Where can we go when we die? Jack Kornfield explores the recycling of energy, our limitlessness beyond death, and how death enables us ...
01.04.2023 Ep. 172 – Mindfulness of Death Mindfully navigating death, we learn from Jack Kornfield how to appreciate the vulnerability of one's final moments on earth. Jack Kornfield describes the truth death pushes us to face and how keeping an awareness of the inevitable aids us in ...
12.29.2022 Ep. 171 – A Light in the Dark Jack Kornfield describes finding a light in the dark via Buddhist wisdom on forgiveness, transience, and a profound sense of freedom. Through ancient storytelling and dharmic conversation, Jack Kornfield helps us grasp forgiving ourselves and others, keeping a connection to ...
12.22.2022 Ep. 170 – The Water of Dharma Traversing the receptive energy of water, Jack Kornfield details the power of fluidity, serenity, and gentleness. This lecture was originally uploaded on DharmaSeed.org A spiritual journey is often quite gradual. It is not typical to one day wake up and ...
12.14.2022 Ep. 169 – Transformation of Life Through catalysts of compassion and acceptance, Jack Kornfield guides us into a life of lasting transformation. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom “We are a ...
12.07.2022 Ep. 168 – The Wisdom of Ajahn Chah Sharing the wisdom of beloved Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield describes experimenting with life and accepting things as they are. This Dharma Talk from Jack Kornfield was originally published on DharmaSeed.org "What he was pointing to was that we ...
11.29.2022 Ep. 167 – The Perfection of Truthfulness Leaning into the qualities of an awakened heart, Jack Kornfield teaches us the perfection of truthfulness and how it will set us free. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own ...
11.25.2022 Ep. 166 – The Buddha’s Last Teachings Gather around for story time as Jack Kornfield offers a dharma talk centered around the Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta, which contains the teachings from the last year of the Buddha’s life. This dharma talk was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock on 8/22/22 ...
11.15.2022 Ep. 165 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Concentration Proceeding with the practice in daily life series, Jack Kornfield plunges into right concentration and mindful breathing. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Concentration isn't ...
11.08.2022 Ep. 164 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Effort Continuing his survey of the Eightfold path, Jack Kornfield teaches listeners about Right Effort and how we can apply ourselves in spiritual practice. “In the end, you have to let go. No matter how much effort you make and where ...
11.02.2022 Ep. 163 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Livelihood Jack Kornfield delves into Right Livelihood, one of the key practices on the Eightfold Path that can help us find joy in our occupation. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your ...
10.17.2022 Ep. 162 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Action Exploring Right Action and the Five Precepts, Jack offers modern Buddhist insight on ahimsa, virtue, happiness, drugs, sex, and samadhi. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: ...
09.22.2022 Ep. 161 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Speech Jack Kornfield continues his series of talks on practice in daily life by focusing on uprightness of heart, Right Speech, and how we can learn to let our words come more directly from our heart. This podcast is sponsored by ...
09.08.2022 Ep. 160 - Practice In Daily Life: Intention In this second part of his 'Practice in Daily Life' series, Jack Kornfield leads a lecture on intention and the ways it can determine our karma. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month ...
09.01.2022 Ep. 159 – Practice in Daily Life: Walking the Eightfold Path In this dharma talk from 1985, Jack Kornfield speaks to the heart of meditation by posing a series of frequently asked questions about bringing our spiritual practice into daily life. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% ...
08.24.2022 Ep. 158 – Season of Generosity There is never a bad time to open ourselves to the spirit of the holidays! Reflecting on the 'season of generosity', Jack shares holiday Dharma stories on quieting the mind and opening the heart. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. ...
08.10.2022 Ep. 157 – Mindful Respect In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on abortion, Jack Kornfield explores the theme of mindful respect and how we can all listen to each other with loving awareness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive ...
07.28.2022 Ep. 156 – Here & Now Meditation Jack Kornfield guides a “Here and Now” meditation focusing on connecting to the present moment, and receiving the breath and waves of experience with loving awareness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month ...
07.12.2022 Ep. 155 – Path Of Parenting Jack Kornfield offers spiritual advice on the path of parenting, shedding light on engaging the mystery with qualities of consciousness, mindfulness, and love. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own ...
07.04.2022 Ep. 154 – Awakening In The Midst Of Life Jack Kornfield offers wisdom on awakening in the midst of life, sharing insight on navigating life's joys and sorrows with a fearless heart. In this Dharma Talk stemming from January 4th, 1991, Jack Kornfield speaks to the process of awakening ...
06.27.2022 Ep. 153 - Teachers And Cults This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield lectures on false gurus, cults, and finding true teachers along our spiritual path. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: ...
06.16.2022 Ep. 152 – The Most Basic Truths In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield blesses us with a dharma talk on the most basic truths in Buddhism: Annica, Dukkha, and Anatta. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with ...
06.07.2022 Ep. 151 - Happiness & Joy In Practice This time on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield reveals how Buddhist principles have the capacity to bring us happiness and joy. Explore the intersection of Buddhism & Bhakti with Be Here Now Network teachers and guests at the inaugural Love Serve ...
05.30.2022 Ep. 150 – The War-Free Heart Reminding us of our luminous true nature, Jack invites us into the war-free zone of the heart, and leads a chant of the mantra 'Namoh.' Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first ...
05.17.2022 Ep. 149 – Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart Jack Kornfield reflects on dynamic Buddhist stories highlighting how we can tend the garden of the world by tending to the garden of our heart. Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first ...
05.03.2022 Ep. 148 – Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield offers a potent guided meditation designed for letting go into open, spacious awareness. Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own ...
04.19.2022 Ep. 147 – Peace is Possible Amidst Russia's war on Ukraine, Jack Kornfield applies spiritual wisdom to remind us that peace is possible. Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom ...
04.06.2022 Ep. 146 – Setting an Intention of the Heart Jack Kornfield inspires us with a dialogue on stillness, suffering, and how we can set intentions to help others. “We stop and try to sit quietly and it's like there is a layer of ice that needs to thaw before ...
03.30.2022 Ep. 145 - Compassion in a Time of War Meditation In this guided meditation, Jack Kornfield helps us to open our hearts and to extend compassion to all in a time of war. This episode of the Heart Wisdom Podcast was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock on 2/28/22. Subscribe to ...
03.24.2022 Ep. 144 – A Peaceful Heart in a Time of War & the Legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh Jack Kornfield addresses the grief of the war in Ukraine, talking about how to have a peaceful heart in a time of war, and then explores the legacy and teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. Today's podcast is brought to you ...
03.17.2022 Ep. 143 – Loving Witness Meditation In this guided meditation, Jack Kornfield helps us settle into an embodied awareness where we can simply let the breath breath itself and become the loving witness, consciousness itself. This meditation was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock on 8/23/21 See ...
03.10.2022 Ep. 142 – Becoming the Loving Witness Opening to the Great Mystery, Jack Kornfield illuminates how we can traverse the tumultuous polarities of life from the mindful and freeing perspective of the loving witness. Today's episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off ...
02.22.2022 Ep. 141 – How and Why We Become Enlightened Jack Kornfield engages the topic of how and why we become enlightened, talking about how we can experience the qualities of enlightenment at different times and in different ways.
02.13.2022 Ep. 140 – Navigating Change with Equanimity & Compassion In this dharma talk from 2014, Jack Kornfield explores how we can navigate the never-ending waves of change in our lives with loving awareness, equanimity, and compassion. This Jack Kornfield talk was originally published on Dharma Seed This podcast is ...
02.03.2022 Ep. 139 – The Art & Heart of Forgiveness with Trudy Goodman Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman join together to speak on the art and heart of forgiveness, and how forgiveness is an expression of what it means to live with loving awareness. This dharma talk from Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman ...
01.16.2022 Ep. 138 – Guiding Your Own Practice Jack Kornfield offers Buddhist wisdom for guiding your own practice as a householder, exploring continuity and impermanence with careful attention. This podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed ...
12.31.2021 Ep. 137 – Gratitude and Generosity In this heartfelt dharma talk, Jack Kornfield offers us wisdom on how we can practice gratitude and generosity during these challenging and difficult times. This dharma talk was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock on 11/22/21 This podcast is brought to ...
12.16.2021 Ep. 136 – The Sacred Pause Planting seeds of faith, Jack weaves together Buddhist Sutta, teaching advice from Ram Dass, & an unknowing koan from his daughter—inviting us into the sacred pause of mystery & eternity. Jack Kornfield shares a dharma talk on 'The Sacred Pause' ...
11.20.2021 Ep. 135 – The Forgiving Heart Jack Kornfield explores the forgiving heart, offering us the basic ingredients for wise forgiveness, and leads a powerful guided meditation practice called the three directions of forgiveness. This dharma talk was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock on 9/20/21 This podcast ...
11.03.2021 Ep. 134 – On Death A flowing and mystical Jack Kornfield opens our hearts to the vast spiritual mystery of death and impermanence. Just in time for Halloween and the transition into the winter season, Jack Kornfield shares a timely lecture on death from his ...
09.18.2021 Ep. 133 – Training The Inner Child Jack Kornfield shares how we can apply parenting wisdom to our personal spiritual practice to heal and train our inner child. This dharma talk was recorded on Jan 1st, 1988 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and originally published on Dharma ...
08.28.2021 Ep. 132 – Finding Your Own Goodness Reflecting on our intrinsic Basic Goodness, Jack outlines how acceptance, trust, meditation, and faith in the heart can help us navigate life’s 10,000 joys and sorrows.

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