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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!

The Sacred Dialogues: Freedom of Spirit, Opening the Heart with Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass (Payment Plan)

How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman

Discover the profound wisdom of love as a spiritual path. Join Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman in this transformative course exploring intimacy, mindfulness, and compassion
Spirit of Meditation

The Spirit of Meditation

A friend of mine visited the wonderful Zen master, Katagiri Roshi, shortly before he died. She asked Roshi if he could tell her the essence
Navigating the Cycles of Spiritual Life

Navigating the Cycles of Spiritual Life

There are big and small cycles in spiritual life. We can’t stop the cycles, but we can learn to navigate them with grace, ease, and
kind attention

The Gift of Kind Attention

Without being aware, it’s not possible to really live in a free way. Otherwise we are just in habitual reaction to whatever is arising.
You Already Know

You Already Know: Uncovering Your Deepest Wisdom

What do you know no matter what any of the lamas and mamas and swamis and gurus might say? What is your deepest truth?
flowing wisdom

[Video] Flowing Wisdom | Relaxing Dharma Talk on Water [with ambient music & visuals]

In this flowing Dharma Talk from 1993 Jack offers relaxing wisdom on the dharma of water.
rhythm of life

Opening to the Rhythm of Life – Guided Meditation

In the midst of the busyness of life, I invite you into the calm of awareness.
poetry of awakening

Poetry of Awakening: Navigating the Great Mystery

Who are we? We get lost in our phones, in our to-do lists. But what if you look up at the night sky? What if
Dipa Ma

My Teacher Dipa Ma: The Remarkable Possibilities of the Awakened Heart

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. Dipa Ma demonstrated this to me.
Where Does the Eightfold Path Go?

Where Does the Eightfold Path Go?

People ask, if the Eightfold Path is a path, where does it go?

Redemption is Always Possible

I'm here to tell you that this world is full of second chances. In our life, in our world, redemption is always possible.

Dissolving into Stillness – Guided Meditation

In this flowing guided meditation, Jack invites us to receive sensations, thoughts, and feelings with mindful loving awareness.

When You Meditate

“When we realize the everlasting truth of 'everything changes' and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.” – Suzuki Roshi

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