Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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  • The Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom hour celebrates Jack’s ability to mash up his long established Buddhist practices with many other mystical traditions, revealing the poignancy of life’s predicaments and the path to finding freedom from self-interest, self-judgment and unhappiness.
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  • Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 277 – Falling Apart, Coming Together: Impermanence, Romance, and Attachment

    Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 277 – Falling Apart, Coming Together: Impermanence, Romance, and Attachment
    Feb 18 2025
    In this engaging Q&A session, Jack and Trudy explore romance, impermanence, attachment, diffusing anger, manifesting your dreams using mindfulness, and more!Learn How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman – join now!“If you actually become mindful, then it’s possible to choose a direction, to envision, to imagine your life in a healthy way.” – Jack KornfieldIn Part 2 of this episode, Jack and Trudy dive into Q&A on:Finding appreciation and wisdom in things “falling apart”Accepting change, aging, impermanenceEntering the naked unknown of the wilderness, natureThe wisdom of swimming with dolphins in the oceanSending metta (loving kindness) to the world and those in positions of powerHow to tend our romantic relationships and partnerships with mindfulness and careDiffusing anger and learning how to communicate lovinglyConnecting from a place of vulnerability and presenceMoving past warfare, racism, violence, and blameLearning how to communicate across differencesNoting the difference between your intention and it’s impact on othersManifesting your dreams using mindfulness“Attachment” in Buddhism vs Western PsychologyWorking through trauma in a safe and mindful way“It’s important to love what we love; it’s only a problem when we need to let go.” – Trudy Goodman“When you step back and quiet, deeper intuitions come, along with the ability to follow your dreams more clearly, and in a way that’s mindful of your own well-being.” – Jack KornfieldThis talk originally aired on the Voices of Esalen Podcast:The Voices of Esalen Podcast showcases in-depth interviews with the dynamic teachers and thinkers who are part of Esalen Institute. Hosted by Sam Stern, a former Esalen student and current staff member, the podcasts have featured engaging conversations with authors Cheryl Strayed and Michael Pollan, innovators Stan Grof and Dr. Mark Hyman, teachers Byron Katie, Mark Coleman and Jean Houston, Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, and many more. Learn more at Esalen.org/story/podcastsAbout Trudy Goodman:Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.comAbout Jack Kornfield:Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, studying as a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.Jack is currently offering a wonderful array of transformational online courses diving into crucial topics like Mindfulness Meditation Fundamentals, Walking the Eightfold Path, Opening the Heart of Forgiveness, Living Beautifully, Transforming Your Life Through Powerful Stories, and so much more. Sign up for an All Access Pass to explore Jack’s entire course library. If you would like a years worth of online meetups with Jack and fellow community, join The Year of Awakening: A Monthly Journey with Jack KornfieldStay up to date with Jack and his stream of fresh dharma offerings by visiting JackKornfield.com and signing up for his email teachings.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    39 mins
  • Heart Wisdom – Ep. 276 – Healing with Love: Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times

    Heart Wisdom – Ep. 276 – Healing with Love: Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times
    Feb 12 2025

    Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman join forces in an exploration of Buddha’s eternal wisdom: ‘hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed.’

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    “We start to sense that who we are is not just limited by the events of the world, but that we’re connected to something vast, mysterious, and greater.” – Jack Kornfield

    In Part 1 of this episode, Jack and Trudy mindfully explore:

    • Loving Awareness and mindful response
    • Seeing the world with the eyes of a Buddha
    • Opening to that world with the heart of a Buddha
    • How the art of meditation is actually the art of love
    • The story of Maha Ghosananda, the Gandhi of Cambodia
    • Buddha’s eternal wisdom: Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed
    • Facing climate change, racism, warfare, refugees, injustice, and trauma
    • Dealing with our cultural anxiety, and saving ourselves from despair
    • Becoming the calm person on the boat who can show the way for all
    • Becoming a Bodhisattva, setting the compass of your heart for compassion
    • Standing up for what matters, and tending the world with beauty
    • Shifting our practice from unconsciousness to loving awareness
    • Suffusing mindfulness practice with tenderness and compassion
    • How we are all the same size when facing the vulnerability of our mortality
    • The Heart Sutra mantra: Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
    • Finding wisdom and comfort in “falling apart”


    “Spiritually, we are all the same size, because we all are facing the vulnerability of our mortality.” – Trudy Goodman

    “In community, in family, in our lives, in joy and sorrow, in birth and death—we’re, given the responsibility to hold ourselves in a web of love.” – Jack Kornfield

    This talk originally aired on the Voices of Esalen Podcast:

    The Voices of Esalen Podcast showcases in-depth interviews with the dynamic teachers and thinkers who are part of Esalen Institute. Hosted by Sam Stern, a former Esalen student and current staff member, the podcasts have featured engaging conversations with authors Cheryl Strayed and Michael Pollan, innovators Stan Grof and Dr. Mark Hyman, teachers Byron Katie, Mark Coleman and Jean Houston, Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, and many more. Learn more at Esalen.org/story/podcasts

    Learn How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman beginning Feb 17 – join anytime!

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    35 mins
  • Ep. 275 – Desire, Love, and Spiritual Passion

    Ep. 275 – Desire, Love, and Spiritual Passion
    Feb 6 2025

    Love is in the air, as Jack explores the nature of desire, relationships, and spiritual passion—offering wisdom on stabilizing the heart, navigating distractions, and awakening to the timeless and sacred.

    Learn How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman beginning Feb 17 – join anytime!

    “If you know what it’s like to really fall in love with someone, then you can begin to sense what it means to bring the full presence of attention to your life.” – Jack Kornfield

    In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

    • The Buddha on mindfulness and awareness
    • Stabilizing the heart, mind, and body in the present
    • Overcoming distractions and difficult moods
    • Being aware of desires arising and passing
    • Chanda – spiritual passion, the desire for awakening
    • The connection between power, insecurity, and fear
    • How to stop feeding the hungry heart in unskillful ways
    • The difference between desire and love
    • Relationship, marriage, and staying in love
    • A moving love story from Thich Nhat Hanh
    • Reclaiming our humanity and animal nature
    • Reawakening mystery, gratitude, awe
    • Touching that which is timeless and sacred
    • Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of infinite compassion
    • Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and living your fullness
    • Noticing what tempts you away during meditation


    “What direction do our personal desires take us? It’s good to study them. As my teacher Ajahn Chah said, ‘It may be a very fast car, but you ought to look at what road you’re going down and which way it’s headed.'” – Jack Kornfield

    “Perhaps what we most deeply desire is immensely simple—to reclaim our humanity, our animal nature that Jung talked about, the wondrous senses, the sense of the spirit of awe, the remembering, the reawakening of that sense of gratitude and mystery for life.” – Jack Kornfield

    This Dharma Talk recorded on 9/28/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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    1 hr and 5 mins

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