Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
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Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
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. 307 – Inner Climate Change with Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi
Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi share uplifting spiritual wisdom on how inner climate change shapes outer climate healing, the environment, an...

Ep. 306 – The Spacious Heart: Transcending Duality Through Meditation and Sound
Jack Kornfield leads a guided sound journey into spacious awareness—exploring meditation, mantra, and the freedom beyond duality.
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Ep. 305 – Remembering the Pleasure of Peace
Exploring spaciousness as the ground of awakening, Jack Kornfield shows how peace, impermanence, and love are all born from the open heart.
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Ep. 304 – Finding Your Inner Light
Jack shares a whimsical story on light and dark, birth and death, forgiveness and mercy, passion and sincerity, impermanence and immorality, and findi...

Ep. 303 – The Nature of Mind: Practices and Perspectives for Inner Freedom
Jack Kornfield explores the nature of mind, offering playful practices and profound perspectives to uncover our true home of freedom, compassion, and...

Ep. 302 – Awakening the Lion’s Roar Within: Poetry of Courage, Compassion, and Wonder
In this inspiring poetry-infused talk, Jack weaves Rumi’s wisdom on the camel, lion, and child of the spirit into a journey from devotion, to courage,...

Ep. 301 – The Dharma of Poetry: Rumi, Beauty, Music, and the Art of Awakening
Exploring poetry, beauty, and art, Jack helps his dear listeners appreciate the harmonious dichotomy of all life experiences.
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Ep. 300 – This Very Place: Letting Go and Finding Freedom
In this rich and often humorous talk from the 1990s, Jack explores the art of letting go as the gateway to freedom, inviting us into the coolness of n...

Ep. 299 – The End of Exile: A Zen Love Story of Coming Home to Yourself
In this tender and illuminating talk, Jack shares a Zen love story and a path of mindful presence that brings us home—from the stories of the mind to...

Ep. 298 – The Dalai Lama’s Message for Modern Times: How to Live with Courage, Compassion, and Integrity
From gender equity to joyful adaptation, Jack recounts how the Dalai Lama challenged teachers to reshape Buddhism for a modern world in need of heart....

Ep. 297 – Advice from the Dalai Lama: The Fragrance of Nirvana
Jack shares stories and insights from a rare gathering with the Dalai Lama on what really makes a teacher, and how compassion—not titles—spreads the D...

Ep. 296 – The Beautiful World We Can Be: Trust, Joy, Imagination & Transformation
What if the blueprint for a more beautiful world is already within you? Jack explores how trust, joy, and imagination awaken transformation—from the i...

Ep. 295 – The Sweet and Radical Joy of Living in the Way
Jack invites us to walk the path of joy—no matter the circumstances—showing how living joyfully and tenderly is a courageous, radical, and transformat...

Ep. 294 – The Secret of Love and Attachment: Wise Relationships, Vulnerability, and the Joy of Nirvana
Sharing deep spiritual secrets of love and attachment, Jack transforms our unhealthy attachments into Wise Relationships through vulnerability, inner...

Ep. 293 – Discovering the Great Way: Freedom from Attachment
Exploring the ancient Zen teaching of the Great Way, Jack guides us toward freedom from attachment, clarity beyond preferences, and the liberating joy...

Ep. 292 – Becoming What You Want the World to Be with Ocean Robbins
Jack and Ocean continue their deep conversation, exploring how to create positive change in the world without losing our spiritual center and loving e...

Ep. 291 – The Calm Ocean and the Storm: Navigating Duality with Ocean Robbins
Jack is interviewed by Ocean Robbins to explore the big spiritual questions—why there is suffering, how to navigate duality, making the ordinary holy,...

Ep. 290 – Bowing to the Breath: An Embodied Mindfulness Practice
In this guided breath meditation, Jack Kornfield invites listeners into a space of ease, trust, and ardent gratitude for our bodies, hearts, and minds...

Ep. 289 – Still We Rise: Bodhisattvas of the Great Turning with Trudy Goodman
In this time of global uncertainty, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman call us to rise with fierce compassion and become Bodhisattvas of the Great Turni...

Ep. 288 – The Trusting Heart: Letting Go of Victimhood, Awakening Resilience
Exploring how to let go of victim consciousness and awaken inner resilience, Jack shares how to rest in awareness and live from the trusting heart.

Ep. 287 – Remembering Who You Truly Are
Who are we really? Jack Kornfield peels back the veil on our identity roles to uncover the deeper truth that we really are.
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Ep. 286 – The Great Ocean of Change: Letting Go Into What Is
Exploring how to stay buoyant and balanced on life's great ocean of change, Jack sets our spiritual compass for letting go into what is.
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Ep. 285 – Bowing to What Is: Awakening Right Where You Are
Jack invites us to stop fighting what is and begin bowing to it—awakening the timeless wisdom and compassionate heart of a Buddha, right here and now,...

Ep. 284 – Guided Meditation: Breathing with Mindful Loving Awareness
Leading a guided meditation helping us witness the play of our human existence from the loving awareness that we truly are, Jack invites us to uncover...

Ep. 283 – The Imaginal Cells of the Butterfly
This episode was recorded on 3/03/25 as a part of Spirit Rock’s Monday Night Dharma Talk Series
“You are the imaginal cells. You are the ones wh...

Ep. 282 – Awakening Soul Force: Healing the World Through Your Unique Gift
Jack reveals how awakening your Soul Force—your inner strength, wisdom, and compassion—allows you to heal the world by offering your unique gift with...

Ep. 281 – The Paradox of Practice: When to Sit, When to Serve
Exploring the spiritual paradox of individual and universal responsibility, Jack helps us find balance between meditation and service in our daily liv...

Ep. 280 –The Healing Breath: Reawakening the Body, Reconnecting with Life
Fostering the mind-body-heart connection, Jack shares how the healing breath reawakens the body and reconnects us with life.
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Ep. 279 – Standing Up For Compassion: A Wise Rudder in Turbulent Politics
Standing up for compassion in this powerful new Dharma Talk, Jack offers a steady spiritual rudder for navigating turbulent politics with the heart of...

Ep. 278 – Guided Metta Meditation: Becoming a Beacon of Kindness
“A powerful way of practicing metta is to invite in the feeling of love without specific words or images. You become a beacon of kindness. Then whatev...

Ep. 277 – Falling Apart, Coming Together: Impermanence, Romance, and Attachment
In this engaging Q&A session, Jack and Trudy explore romance, impermanence, attachment, diffusing anger, manifesting your dreams using mindfulness, an...

Ep. 276 – Healing with Love: Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times
Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman join forces in an exploration of Buddha’s eternal wisdom: ‘hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed...

Ep. 275 – Desire, Love, and Spiritual Passion
Love is in the air, as Jack explores the nature of desire, relationships, and spiritual passion—offering wisdom on stabilizing the heart, navigating d...

Ep. 274 – Listening with Your Whole Being: Honoring Life Through Presence and Simplicity
Rekindling the ancient art of listening, Jack shares how we can transform our lives through nourishing inner stillness and simplifying the mind.
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Ep. 273 – The Search for Ajahn Chah: Embodying the Heart of Authenticity
In this defining talk, Jack shed's light on his adventurous journey to Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, and how upon returning home, he had to learn...

Ep. 272 – The Art of Reconciliation: Cultivating Harmony Through Listening and Truth
Jack helps us heal conflicts, release defensiveness, and cultivate the harmony of wise relationships through the art of reconciliation, deep listening...

Ep. 271 – Diffusing Triggers, Reframing Trauma, and Surviving Suffering with Thomas Hübl, PhD
Opening the doorway to transformation, Jack and Dr. Hübl explore spiritual discernment, identity, “central casting,” overcoming nervous system trigger...

Ep. 270 – Ritual as a Language and Gateway to the Heart with Thomas Hübl, PhD
Jack and Thomas explore how ritual serves as a powerful language for opening the heart and living joyfully through life’s challenges.
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Ep. 269 – Holiday Special Pt. 2 – A Lamp in the Darkness: Setting Intentions for the Return of the Light
Shining a lamp in the darkness, Jack offers a heartwarming holiday story, guided meditation, angelic chant, and powerful intention setting ceremony fo...

Ep. 268 – Holiday Special Pt. 1 – Rediscovering Your Secret Beauty and Sharing Your Special Gift
In this cozy holiday special, Jack sheds seasonal tidings on how to rediscover the secret beauty within you and share your special gifts with the worl...