Let the breath be natural. Let the heart be soft to receive whatever arises with compassion. Now with this embodied presence, begin to notice the play of your human experience—sensations, sounds, feelings and thoughts. Become the loving witness of it all.

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Calm, Clarity, Compassion Meditation — Jack Kornfield

If it’s helpful, you can whisper in the back of your mind “ease” or “calm,” as suggested by Thich Nhat Hanh. Try to meet each breath with lovingkindness and loving awareness. Wish calm and peace for yourself and beings everywhere, far and near. Rest in stillness and love.

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The Forgiving Heart Meditation — Jack Kornfield

Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, fame and disrepute? These are the worldly winds that constantly change.

It's important to stop, take a pause, and feel that we are part of something so much greater than the individual life that we live. Our awareness is big enough to hold all of this, because we are awareness itself.


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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 3/28/22.

Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation - Jack Kornfield

Rest in the reality of the present with mindful, loving awareness. Sit like a Buddha, steady and kind, with heart open, gracious and wise in the midst of it all. You are the loving witness; you are the steady one.

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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 6/27/22.

Centering Meditation — Jack Kornfield

Some of you may have your own way of practicing metta/lovingkindess meditation. Others may want to listen and follow along—but it's not a rigid practice. Do whatever most naturally opens the heart. For some people, the recitation of words—which we'll do—may be helpful. For others, it's more helpful to simply sit in a field of love and radiate kindness without a lot of words, specific language, or intention. Whatever floats your heart—follow that into goodness.

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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 10/3/22.

Beacon Of Love Meditation—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

This very relaxing meditation by Jack Kornfield has much guidance with very short silent periods (the longest silence being five minutes long).  The complete meditation portion is a total of twenty two minutes long, preceded by a two and a half minute introduction by Trudy Goodman.

The approximate starting point of the meditation only portion is at 3:07.  It ends with the ringing of 3 beautiful bells.

To hear the Sunday Dharma Talk that followed this meditation, (including a New Year's Intention Setting Ritual), click on this link:  https://soundcloud.com/insightla_meditation/12-23-18godp-trgdjkkrf

12/23/18 MEDITATION:  'Going Deep' by Jack Kornfield (Introduction by Trudy Goodman)

Do this grounding practice for 3-5 minutes at different times of the day to steady yourself. With each breath, exhale tension. Let yourself imagine that you have roots that go deep into the soil of the earth, to steady and nurture you. If images help, let yourself remember a wonderful tree from your life—an old tree, a strong tree. Imagine that you are standing in front of the tree, meditating together. Just as this great tree has a strong trunk that has weathered storms and the changing of the seasons, feel your own body steady like the trunk of that tree.

Grounding Practice - Jack Kornfield

Sitting like a great tree, imagine you have roots that extend deep into the earth. Let calm and ease grow with each breath.

Quiet Mind, Peaceful Heart 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.

Waves Of Experience Meditation – Jack Kornfield

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