Video: Seeing the World with the Heart of Wisdom Dharma Talk
The poet Mary Oliver writes, "To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowin…
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Video: Reconciliation Dharma Talk
Conflict is natural—we can be attached to our needs, desires, ideas and visions. Our brains are wired with a negativity bias to look for things that…
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…
Blessings for the New Year
Dear ones, The year ends and we begin a new circuit around our own beautiful sun star, twirling amidst the galaxies. Take a breath, quiet…
Video: Rekindle and Renew Dharma Talk
Many of us discover we live partially in a dreamworld, cut off from whole pieces of our life, our body, our past. Though we may sense our disconnectio…
Jack Kornfield on Mind & Life Podcast: Wisdom for our Times
During this podcast, we discuss links between Buddhism and psychology in terms of healing and self; the problem of spiritual bypassing; how to work wi…
Video: Wonder, Mystery, Awe, Gratitude
We are spiritual beings incarnated into human form. We need to remember our zip code as well as our Buddha nature. We are creatures of this paradox. B…
Video: Beyond the Dilemma: Unpacking Solutions to The Social Dilemma
Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman & The Center for Humane Technology co-founders Tristan Harris & Randy Fernando discuss the asymmetry of power highlighte…
Mindfulness of the Body
Listening deeply, your body will connect you back to the body of the Earth. As you sense that you are not separate from the planet, you know that to t…
Video: Election Day Dharma Talk
It's an important time to come together. We don't want outer conflicts to take over the heart. Then we can venture into the conflict of the world with…
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…
Video: The Peaceful Heart
This dharma talk explores how the combination of compassion and equanimity can give rise to a peaceful heart even in times of turmoil and great change…
