
Ep. 322 – Wisdom for Difficult Times: AI, Compassion, and Community
In this powerful dialogue, Jack Kornfield responds to questions from the community about some of the deepest challenges of the human heart....
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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 predi...

In this powerful dialogue, Jack Kornfield responds to questions from the community about some of the deepest challenges of the human heart....

In this illuminating talk, Jack explores the heart of freedom through the lens of his friendship with Ram Dass, reflecting on how to cultiva...

In this deeply grounding guided meditation, Jack Kornfield invites us to rest in mindful loving awareness and gratitude for the miracle of b...

Celebrating the release of All In This Together, Jack shares stories and leads a guided meditation inviting us into the fear dispelling and...

Celebrating the release of All In This Together, Jack reflects on learning to bow to life’s mystery—and how doing so opens a path to liberat...

Honoring the release of All In This Together, Jack reflects on how stories awaken compassion, heal division, and call us back to meeting one...

In honor of All In This Together , Jack, Anne Lamott, and Tami Simon continue their heart-opening conversation on story, tenderness, and rem...

Jack opens with reflections on the cosmic dance of life before guiding listeners into a meditation on stillness, breath, and embodied presen...

As winter deepens, Jack reflects on the quiet light that does not go out—the warmth of compassion, generosity, and courage that sustains us...

As we fully enter the winter season, Jack reflects on the ancient meaning of solstice—the standing still—and what becomes possible when we a...

In a moment when the world feels uncertain, Jack sits down with Anne Lamott and Tami Simon for an intimate, deeply human conversation about...

Celebrating the release of his new book of his favorite stories, All In This Together, Jack shares wise tales on living with integrity, pres...

Celebrating the release of his new book of his favorite stories, All In This Together, Jack shares why ‘sometimes we need a story more than...

Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi explore how facing suffering with love can awaken the courage to heal our world. Today’s podcast is...

Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi explore ‘inner climate change,’ guiding us through meditation and reflection on transforming the wor...

Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi share uplifting spiritual wisdom on how inner climate change shapes outer climate healing, the envir...

Jack Kornfield leads a guided sound journey into spacious awareness—exploring meditation, mantra, and the freedom beyond duality. Dive into...

Exploring spaciousness as the ground of awakening, Jack Kornfield shows how peace, impermanence, and love are all born from the open heart....

Jack shares a whimsical story on light and dark, birth and death, forgiveness and mercy, passion and sincerity, impermanence and immorality,...

Jack Kornfield explores the nature of mind, offering playful practices and profound perspectives to uncover our true home of freedom, compas...

In this inspiring poetry-infused talk, Jack weaves Rumi’s wisdom on the camel, lion, and child of the spirit into a journey from devotion, t...

Exploring poetry, beauty, and art, Jack helps his dear listeners appreciate the harmonious dichotomy of all life experiences. Today’s podcas...

In this rich and often humorous talk from the 1990s, Jack explores the art of letting go as the gateway to freedom, inviting us into the coo...

In this tender and illuminating talk, Jack shares a Zen love story and a path of mindful presence that brings us home—from the stories of th...

From gender equity to joyful adaptation, Jack recounts how the Dalai Lama challenged teachers to reshape Buddhism for a modern world in need...

Jack shares stories and insights from a rare gathering with the Dalai Lama on what really makes a teacher, and how compassion—not titles—spr...

What if the blueprint for a more beautiful world is already within you? Jack explores how trust, joy, and imagination awaken transformation—...

Jack invites us to walk the path of joy—no matter the circumstances—showing how living joyfully and tenderly is a courageous, radical, and t...

Sharing deep spiritual secrets of love and attachment, Jack transforms our unhealthy attachments into Wise Relationships through vulnerabili...

Exploring the ancient Zen teaching of the Great Way, Jack guides us toward freedom from attachment, clarity beyond preferences, and the libe...

Jack and Ocean continue their deep conversation, exploring how to create positive change in the world without losing our spiritual center an...

Jack is interviewed by Ocean Robbins to explore the big spiritual questions—why there is suffering, how to navigate duality, making the ordi...

In this guided breath meditation, Jack Kornfield invites listeners into a space of ease, trust, and ardent gratitude for our bodies, hearts,...

In this time of global uncertainty, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman call us to rise with fierce compassion and become Bodhisattvas of the G...

Exploring how to let go of victim consciousness and awaken inner resilience, Jack shares how to rest in awareness and live from the trusting...

Who are we really? Jack Kornfield peels back the veil on our identity roles to uncover the deeper truth that we really are. Join Jack's New...

Exploring how to stay buoyant and balanced on life's great ocean of change, Jack sets our spiritual compass for letting go into what is. Tod...

Jack invites us to stop fighting what is and begin bowing to it—awakening the timeless wisdom and compassionate heart of a Buddha, right her...

Leading a guided meditation helping us witness the play of our human existence from the loving awareness that we truly are, Jack invites us...

This episode was recorded on 3/03/25 as a part of Spirit Rock’s Monday Night Dharma Talk Series “You are the imaginal cells. You are the one...

Jack reveals how awakening your Soul Force—your inner strength, wisdom, and compassion—allows you to heal the world by offering your unique...

Exploring the spiritual paradox of individual and universal responsibility, Jack helps us find balance between meditation and service in our...

Fostering the mind-body-heart connection, Jack shares how the healing breath reawakens the body and reconnects us with life. This episode is...

Standing up for compassion in this powerful new Dharma Talk, Jack offers a steady spiritual rudder for navigating turbulent politics with th...

“A powerful way of practicing metta is to invite in the feeling of love without specific words or images. You become a beacon of kindness. T...

In this engaging Q&A session, Jack and Trudy explore romance, impermanence, attachment, diffusing anger, manifesting your dreams using mindf...

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

Love is in the air, as Jack explores the nature of desire, relationships, and spiritual passion—offering wisdom on stabilizing the heart, na...

Rekindling the ancient art of listening, Jack shares how we can transform our lives through nourishing inner stillness and simplifying the m...

In this defining talk, Jack shed's light on his adventurous journey to Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, and how upon returning home, he ha...