This dharma talk centers around teachings from The Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta which is a story about the last year of the Buddha's life. 

This text has two main themes: 

1. The Buddha wanted to leave his teachings as guidance for his followers to empower them.
2. The Buddha wanted to encourage his followers to foster wise relationships to one another in the spiritual community and to the world.


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This dharma talk was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 8/22/22.

The Buddha's Last Teachings Dharma Talk—Jack Kornfield

Inviting listeners into a soft, natural breathing amidst it all, Jack helps us flow through waves of thoughts, emotions, and sensations, in order to come to rest in loving awareness, the timeless witness indwelling in each of us as who we truly are.

"When you notice that a wave has pulled your attention from the breath, receive it. Let go of the attention to the breath, and receive it with the same loving awareness, as if to bow to it gently."

This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 11/14/22.

Waves Of Experience Meditation – Jack Kornfield

Welcoming listeners into the gentle whisper of the breath, Jack helps us into a presence and ease beyond our anxieties, worries, and to-do lists.  From this place of deep relaxation, he invites us into an easy-come, easy-go mentality with our thoughts and emotions.

"Your breath is the Earth breathing herself through you." – Jack Kornfield

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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 12/19/22.

Breath of the Earth 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, spacious loving awareness, and relaxed embodied presence.

"The invitation of meditation is to come into the present, to quiet the mind, to open the heart, to find an embodied presence and loving awareness." – Jack Kornfield

This meditation was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock for the Monday Night Dharma Talk on 2/6/2023.

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Embodied Presence Meditation – Jack Kornfield

Jack shares a guided meditation focused around relaxing into the ocean of breath we find ourselves in when we open into the present moment.

“Notice how the body breathes itself in this ocean of air, feel it—the coolness of the nostrils, or the swirling-tingling in the back of the throat, or the rise and fall of the chest or belly.” – Jack Kornfield

“You become a connoisseur of breathing for this moment, attentive to this remarkable breathing in and out of the atmosphere, keeping you alive, exchanging with all.” – Jack Kornfield

This meditation was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock for the Monday Night Dharma Talk on July 24, 2023

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Ocean of Air Meditation – Jack Kornfield

Vinny Ferraro — Seeing through Eyes of Love

The beautiful truth is that love can be awakened, cultivated, and invited to grow in our hearts. The practice of metta or lovingkindness taught here is a simple, timeless way  to open the heart and to move through the world with a loving spirit.

Loving Kindness Meditation - Jack Kornfield

“O Nobly Born” the Buddhist texts begin, remember your Buddha Nature. Remember your innate capacity for dignity, understanding and vast compassion. These gifts were born into you. Discover how the beautiful qualities of Buddha Nature can become alive for you, in your heart and the way you live.

This series of inspiring talks discuss the awakening of the qualities of Buddha Nature, traditionally described as inner perfections. Through these teachings and practices, you are invited to bring alive and embody the virtues of the heart, lovingkindness and steadiness, compassion and wisdom. You are invited to awaken the best in yourself.

Given in 2017, these teachings are some of my favorites.

Surprising Delights of Simplicity - Jack Kornfield

Energy to Awaken - Jack Kornfield

Courage & the Steady Heart - Jack Kornfield

How do we relate to people who are wildly different? In truth, we have more in common than not. When we can see one another with the heart and eyes of wisdom, we're reminded that there is something bigger than all our ideas.

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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 11/23/20.

"Just Like Me" Compassion Practice & Meditation—Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield is an American Buddhist teacher. He is a founder of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, Calif., where he lives & teaches.

Energy to Awaken - Jack Kornfield

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