Expanding Perspective Through Story and Myth
Sometimes we need a timeless story to help us begin to live from an expanded perspective.
Tag: perspective
Like Yeast for Bread: Understanding the Hindrances in Meditation and Life
As we try to steady the mind, the most common difficulties that arise in practice are called by the Buddha the five hindrances.
Jack Kornfield on Knowledge Project Podcast 156 – A Practical Guide on Finding Inner Peace
Author and Buddhist practitioner Jack Kornfield sits down for a candid, in-depth interview to help you suppress self-doubt and find inner calm. Calling on decades…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 124 – Conflict and Reconciliation
Conflict really starts in the heart with our attachments and our needs and our desires. We need to pause for a moment and reflect on all conflicts tha…
Jack Kornfield on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris – Ep. 315
You may ask: what’s the point of meditating when the world is on fire? Jack has extremely satisfying and practical answers.
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 91 – Living with a Peaceful Heart
Equanimity is the willingness to be in life, but to be spacious and open, to have a vast perspective and say, “Yes, here I am,…
Fearing Death
If you understand—things are just as they are. If you do not understand—things are just as they are. —Zen saying From the universal perspective, all…
Dharma and Politics
Many Buddhist practitioners have questioned what to do in these turbulent times. More than anything, I believe the world is in need of a spiritual…
Open to Mystery
Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Buddhist practice gives us…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 58 – Starting with the Fruit
Jack is joined by Frank Ostaseski to talk about rethinking our perspective on life and death and starting with the fruit of practice. “When you…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 55 – Seeing Anew
By shifting our perspective on our own experience, we can better understand the world around us. Jack shows the importance of becoming the witness and…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 44 – Attachment Revealed
To create and maintain appropriate boundaries we must first understand what it is as we are approaching attachment, commitment and love. Jack offers a definition…
