Jack Kornfield

Spirit Rock Live: Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation
2023-09-18 19:15 - 21:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Noting the precious jewel of sangha, I will be continuing my talks illuminating the Buddha’s Eightfold Path. I hope you will join me on Sept. 18 at 7:15pm PT for my Spirit Rock ONLINE Monday Night Meditation and Dharma Talk.
The Spirit Rock Monday Night sitting group is an opportunity to come together as a community to hear contemporary teachings inspired by the Buddhist tradition and to cultivate the mindfulness and compassion that are the heart of Insight Meditation. This online event is a way to stay connected to one another and to support our practice.
“If our goal in spiritual practice is some state, some open state, it would be in spiritual life like buying already open flowers instead of buds, or like adopting an adult instead of a child. To awaken the heart of a Buddha requires us to find the deepest respect and compassion for things as they are, for they way things are. There isn’t anything you can hold onto in that because it’s always changing. There is no enlightened retirement. The way things are includes the cycles of stillness and action, the times of raising a family or being a renunciate, making money or retiring—and finding somehow a way to be with what is, with the truth of change.” – Jack Kornfield
REGISTER for the livestream (PAY WHAT YOU CAN). A recording of the event will be available for 90 days but you must register by 11:59pm PT on Sept 18.
With metta,
Jack

Monday Night Dharma Talk (Online): July 24
2023-07-24 19:15 - 21:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Noting the precious jewel of sangha and the importance of connecting for practice, I hope you will join me on July 24 at 7:15pm PT for my Spirit Rock ONLINE Monday Night Meditation and Dharma Talk.
The Spirit Rock Monday Night sitting group is an opportunity to come together as a community to hear contemporary teachings inspired by the Buddhist tradition and to cultivate the mindfulness and compassion that are the heart of Insight Meditation. This online event is a way to stay connected to one another and to support our practice.
“Who you are is consciousness itself, loving awareness. You’re not limited to your personality, to your body, to the beliefs of the society around you. You have a birthright of dignity and of freedom of heart, and this is what’s true.” – Jack Kornfield
REGISTER for the livestream (PAY WHAT YOU CAN). A recording of the event will be available for 90 days but you must register by 11:59pm PT on July 24.
With metta,
Jack

Discover the Joy of Spiritual Friendship featuring Tara Brach
2023-06-03 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
A Free Live Online Special Event
With Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield
Hosted by Omega Institute in partnership with Cloud Sangha
Saturday, June 3, 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET (10:00-11:15 a.m. PT)
“The love and understanding of a friend, like a deep well of the purest water, refreshes the very source of our being. If all religions and great ideologies disappeared and our one pursuit was friendship—unconditional friendliness with each other, our inner life, all nature—ah, what a world!”
—Tara Brach (from her book Radical Acceptance)
“When the world is seen with the eyes of a bodhisattva, there is no I and other, there is just us.”
—Jack Kornfield
Join two of the most beloved spiritual teachers of our time, Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, for rich, inspiring teachings and honest dialogue on the power of spiritual friends. Using stories, teachings, practices, and heart-to-heart conversation, Tara and Jack share guidance on the importance of sangha, and of fostering meaningful and nourishing connections with others through the transformative power of meditation.
During the live online conversation, we explore:

How we each can understand and respond to the epidemic of loneliness in our time
The challenges we face in nurturing spiritual friendship
Ways we can find meaningful fellowship on the path
How can we each deepen our capacity for spiritual friendship
Honesty and vulnerability in spiritual friendship
Community and individual forms of friendship
Serving something beyond ourselves together

The event will include a guided meditation and participants will be able to submit questions via chat.
Sign Up Here

Wisdom 2.0: The Journey of Relationships
2023-05-19 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dear Friends,
My Beloved, Trudy, and I will be joining a lineup of wonderful teachers diving into the wisdom of relationships with Wisdom 2.0.
Wisdom 2.0 is excited to announce that their donation-based series for the month of May will focus on Nurturing Healthy Relationships – running the entire month of May.
Numerous studies have shown that people who have satisfying relationships with family, friends, and their community are happier, have fewer health problems, and live longer.
To support our community in this area, we will engage teachers in the area of partnerships, particularly intimate relationships.
The series is Donation Based and will run the entire month of May.
Trudy and I will have our live Zoom session on Friday, May 19th 10:00am – 11:00am PST.
Sign Up Here

The Yoga of Heartfulness with Ram Dass and Friends
2023-05-15 - 2023-06-12
Join Ram Dass and friends to learn how to open your heart and find equanimity within your daily life.
The Yoga of Heartfulness is a 4-Week Live, moderated online course with an active community beginning May 15.
In this four-week course, Ram Dass’ Yoga of Heartfulness, you will dive into these themes to gain agency over your life in a world that often seems overwhelming, isolating, polarized and apathetic.
You will follow in Ram Dass’ footsteps by learning how to revive your heart and, in the process, help to germinate goodness in the hearts of others. Not in a “phony holy” or “spiritual bypassing” way, but by authentically embracing your humanity while simultaneously tapping into the abiding space of loving awareness that is your true nature.

10 Hours of Ram Dass & Friends

Contemporary and archival audio and video teachings, practices, and methods from Ram Dass and friends, with downloadable transcripts and closed captions for accessibility and ease of use.
Additional teachings and practices from Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Trudy Goodman, Krishna Das, RamDev (Dale Borglum) and Mirabai Bush, as well as live sessions with Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Jai Uttal, Mirabai Starr, and more.

Sessions begin May 15.
To register and for more information: Click Here
Or visit: RamDass.org/heart

Wisdom 2.0 2023: Together
2023-04-27 - 2023-04-29 | San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Join Jack at Wisdom 2.0 2023: Together, an exploration merging modern technology with ancient spiritual wisdom.
To truly change the world, we need to both shift internally, and also evolve the technologies of our time to support human thriving.
Wisdom 2.0 is the annual gathering for this exploration.
“Where the technology and contemplative communities … hash out the best ways to incorporate these tools into our lives — and keep them from taking over.”
— Wired Magazine

Come together with us in the heart of San Francisco. Connect with new and old friends. Learn about the leading issues of our times. Engage with various art and other installations. Take part in the practices that invite you inward . Join community circles to talk about the topics most dear to year heart.

Learn more and sign up here.

Compassion Now: A Global Gathering for Compassion
2023-04-15 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
I will be speaking at the Global Compassion Coalition’s international gathering, #CompassionNow: A global gathering for compassion. We will be exploring the power of compassion to bring more care, equity, and justice to the world – and what we can all do to make that happen. I’d be delighted if you’d consider joining us. The event is free and I am sure it will prove to be both hugely uplifting and hopeful.
Join us! Sign Up Here

Ram Dass Birthday Benefit
2023-04-06 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
On April 6, Trudy Goodman and I join Dassi Ma and Hanuman Maui – Ram Dass Loving Awareness Sanctuary in celebrating the birthday of our beloved Dharma brother, Ram Dass, one of the most transformative spiritual teachers of our time.
Please join us by signing up here

Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk (Online)
2023-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Noting the importance of opening to the precious jewel of sangha, I hope you will join me on March 13 at 7:15pm PT for my Spirit Rock ONLINE Monday Night Meditation and Dharma Talk.
The Spirit Rock Monday Night sitting group is an opportunity to come together as a community to hear contemporary teachings inspired by the Buddhist tradition and to cultivate the mindfulness and compassion that are the heart of Insight Meditation. This online event is a way to stay connected to one another and to support our practice.
In any moment you can become the loving witness, loving awareness. It’s why we sit in meditation, why we train—not to have a particular special amazing experience and hold your breath hoping it will last—but to sit with heartbreak and love.
REGISTER for the livestream (PAY WHAT YOU CAN). A recording of the event will be available for 90 days but you must register by 11:59pm PT on March 13.
