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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Ep. 205 – Solving Your Own ...

09.20.2023

In this hilarious episode, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and Bonnie Duran, DrPH, share stories on becoming empowered to solve your own problems. Transform your life through Jack's Kornfield's most powerful stories in this brand new 10-hour journey! Live session begin ...

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield episodes:

09.20.2023 Ep. 205 – Solving Your Own Problems with Trudy Goodman and Bonnie Duran, DrPH In this hilarious episode, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and Bonnie Duran, DrPH, share stories on becoming empowered to solve your own problems. Transform your life through Jack's Kornfield's most powerful stories in this brand new 10-hour journey! Live session begin ...
09.13.2023 Ep. 204 – Wise Society Reflecting on what it means to live in a wise society, Jack shares stories on how we can handle difficult topics – cancer, abortion, women's rights, prison, and war – with a mutual respect. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. ...
09.06.2023 Ep. 203 – Ocean of Air Meditation Jack shares a guided meditation on relaxing into the ocean of air we find ourselves in when we open to the present moment. Transform your life through Jack's Kornfield's most powerful stories in this brand new 10-hour journey starting Sept ...
08.29.2023 Ep. 202 – Mudita: Sympathetic Joy Illuminating the concept of mudita – sympathetic joy – Jack helps us cultivate authentic happiness for those around us, and leads a guided meditation on the topic. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first ...
08.23.2023 Ep. 201 – Nature of Dharma Jack returns to explore the nature of Dharma as universal, immediate, timeless, beneficial, protective, and available to all. "The Dharma is universal, it's immediate, it's open-handed, it's to be experienced by each person for themselves directly, it's timeless. The truth ...
08.16.2023 Ep. 200 – Hunger: The Illusion of Incompleteness Getting vulnerable about the hungers which afflict our lives, Jack helps us into the nirvana beyond the illusion of incompleteness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: ...
08.08.2023 Ep. 199 – How to Stay Free with Russell Brand Russell Brand, world-famous comedian, actor, and podcaster, joins Jack to talk Donald Trump, individualism, ethics, artificial intelligence, freedom, awakening, and keeping in touch with Ram Dass after his passing. "Ram Dass was a good friend. I can get quiet in ...
08.02.2023 Ep. 198 – Awareness and Intimacy In this lively episode, Jack dives into how mindfulness, awareness and intimacy help us engage with life more fully. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom ...
07.25.2023 Ep. 197 – Cycles of Change Navigating the body's river of sensations, Jack helps us into the still-point of freedom amidst life's cycles of change. "If our goal in spiritual practice is some state, some open state, it would be in spiritual life like buying already ...
07.20.2023 Ep. 196 – The Art of Paying Attention Illuminating the art of paying attention, Jack shares hilarious stories and mindful insights around how we can let go into the present. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed ...
07.11.2023 Ep. 195 – Freedom, Independence, and a Spiritual Rudder In this Independence Day focused episode, Jack reflects on how we can foster true freedom and independence through using a spiritual rudder. "The Buddha, in the last bit of his life, said, 'When I'm gone, don't follow or place all ...
07.04.2023 Ep. 194 – Sauna Sessions with Prince Ea Hop in the Sauna with Jack Kornfield and Prince Ea, as they steep deeply into topics of spirituality, fear, meditation, compassion, and staying awake in the world. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first ...
06.20.2023 Ep. 193 – Mindfulness, A.I., and the Future of Life w/ Soren Gordhamer & Sam Altman of ChatGPT Jack joins CEO of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sam Altman, onstage with Soren Gordhamer at Wisdom 2.0 to talk artificial intelligence, spirituality, ethics, and the future of humanity. Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI and ChatGPT. Soren Gordhamer is ...
06.13.2023 Ep. 192 – Spirituality and Sexuality (Part 2) Plunging further into last week's topic, Jack offers vulnerable perspectives on how sexuality and relationships play into our life and practice. "If one wants to understand karma, or one wants to understand virtue, ethics, or morality—which are equally important and ...
06.07.2023 Ep. 191 – Spirituality and Sexuality (Part 1) Exploring the relationship between spirituality and sexuality, Jack offers reflections and perspectives on ways to dance with the sexual energy in our lives. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own ...
05.30.2023 Ep. 190 – The Lion's Roar of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Directly following Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's death, Jack offers perspectives on the life and dharma of one of spirituality's most impactful and controversial figures. "Lama Govinda said that of all the young tulkus, of all the young incarnate lamas to leave ...
05.23.2023 Ep. 189 – Connecting Practice with Your Deepest Love Rewiring our brains around difficulties, emptiness, fear, and longing, Jack highlights how we can connect our practice with our deepest love. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional ...
05.17.2023 188 – Ancient Buddhist Dharma Stories Mindfully retelling ancient Buddhist Dharma stories, Jack reflects on what it means to live with a wise heart. "For someone who wants to break free inside of the forces of ignorance, delusion, habit, and sleepwalking—you must really see that there's ...
05.09.2023 Ep. 187 – The Three Characteristics of Life In this vintage Dharma Talk, Jack illuminates Buddhism's Three Characteristics of Life: stress, non-self, and impermanence. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Somehow we believe ...
05.03.2023 Ep. 186 – Expansion and Contraction Jack returns with a cosmic Dharma Talk exploring expansion and contraction in relation to impermanence as the root of spiritual practice. "The law of change is the brown rice and vegetables of spiritual practice, it's the root of our direct ...
04.25.2023 Ep. 185 – Grey Matter with Michael Krasny This week, Jack joins Michael Krasny for a conversation diving into mindfulness, loneliness, compassion, gratitude, suffering, meditation, and the Dharma. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: ...
04.19.2023 Ep. 184 – Listening to Find the Way Uncovering how to live with a peaceful heart, Jack maps the inner landscapes of meditation, and shares how we can use listening to find The Way. “A peaceful heart is not a withdrawal from life, but rather coming back into ...
04.12.2023 Ep. 183 – The Wedding of Body and Spirit Jack returns for an illuminating Dharma Talk exploring the deep human longing for the wedding of body and spirit. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom ...
04.06.2023 Ep. 182 – A Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield connects with lifestyle expert Sarah Grynberg to talk about a life of greatness. "Really, meditation is about deep listening. You sit and what needs to be understood will come if you sit ...
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 ...

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