Heart Wisdom – Ep. 123 – Breathe Love In, Breathe Love Out Meditation
Take whatever gifts of understanding your body and heart and spirit offer, and the quieting of your mind and tending of your heart and breath, and let…
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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 122 – Suffering Is Not the End of the Story
The point of liberation is not to transcend this world, to find some peaceful bliss, to run away to some cave. The point of liberation is to see the m…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 121 – Reflect on Gratitude
Gratitude is a gracious acknowledgment of all that sustains us, a bow to our blessings, great and small. Gratitude is the confidence in life itself. I…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 119 – Listen With the Heart
What these divisive times ask for more than anything else is an ability to listen with the heart. When we learn to listen deeply to one another, not o…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 120 – Seeding Goodness
Don’t think that the seeds that you plant won’t make a difference. With equanimity, with a peaceful heart and a vast mind, you water the seeds tha…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 118 – Right Effort and Loving Awareness
Wise effort—the effort to be present—can also be called an act of love, for it invites us to show up for this life with open arms, open awareness,…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 117 – Quiet Minds and Steady Hearts with Trudy Goodman Kornfield
How do we listen to each other when we’re so polarized? In this podcast we explore how when we meditate from a place of “don’t know mind” we s…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 116 – Equanimity and the Heart of Compassion
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…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 115 – The Medicine of the Dharma
We need something else. We need a whole other way of living with one another. Who you are is consciousness itself, is loving awareness. You’re…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 114 – The Peaceful Heart
What is the peaceful heart? What keeps us from it? The near-enemy, the quality that masquerades as equanimity, is indifference. Indifference is a not-caring, it’s…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 113 – Politics, Possibilities, and Spiritual Sanctuary
In this post-election dharma talk from 2016, Jack offers spiritual sanctuary and human possibility to a zeitgeist of fear, anger, and uncertainty.
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 112 – Racism and Independence
 Here is a talk I gave on racism and interdependence in 1993. The pursuit of racial justice is a most critical task, highlighted for…
