Heart Wisdom – Ep. 245 – Monastic Life Insights with Pema Chödrön and Ajahn Sumedho
Teaching a nature retreat amidst softly chirping birds and cooling rain, Jack, Pema Chödrön, and Ajahn Sumedho illuminate joyful insights of monasti…
Tag: Practice
[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 234 – Guided Meditation: Mindful Loving Awareness
Inviting in calm, strength, and steadiness, Jack leads a guided meditation into the heart of mindful loving awareness.
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 220 – Awareness of Feelings, Mindfulness of Food
In this New Years episode exploring how we can revolutionize our lives by becoming aware of our feelings, Jack talks clear seeing and gives instructio…
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
Meditation, Freedom, and the True Emptiness of Self
Meditation techniques are mental disciplines that allow us to calm, focus, and examine the mind. This de-conditioning process is a slowing down and ob…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 189 – Connecting Practice with Your Deepest Love
Rewiring our brains around difficulties, emptiness, fear, and longing, Jack highlights how we can connect our practice with our deepest love.
Observing the Storm: Working with the Hinderances to Clarity
To work with Buddhism's Five Hindrances—desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt—we must actually study them, observing and allowing …
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 186 – Expansion and Contraction
Jack returns with a cosmic Dharma Talk exploring expansion and contraction in relation to impermanence as the root of spiritual practice. “The law of change…
You Must Be Present to Win
In spirituality, no matter what gate we enter or what form we practice, sooner or later obstacles arise.
Video: Embodied Presence Meditation
Jack offers a flowing guided meditation helping us skillfully move past the thoughts, emotions, and images of the mind, and into a state of stillness,…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 177 – Intention and Purpose in Practice
By telling stories of the Buddha, Jack directs us on the purpose of practice and the laws of Dharma. “What we repeatedly direct our mind…
