Name: Wisdom In The Midst Of Difficulties - Jack Kornfield by Jack Kornfield
Duration: 11 min 20 s
Description: We need compassion to help us be tender with our difficulties and not close off to them in fear. This is how healing takes place. This meditation and visualization can help.

In this meditative practice, you will take time to reflect inwardly,
with kindness and with courage, on how and when you are 
living true to yourself. When you live fully and honestly,
it can change your life and all around you.

Being True To Yourself - Jack Kornfield

The gate to human well-being and transformations swings open when we practice living with a grateful heart. When we find gratitude, we find freedom and love.

Gratitude Meditation - Jack Kornfield

Waves arise naturally on the surface of the vast ocean without troubling its depth. This meditation is an invitation to make your mind like the vast ocean.

Mind Like Ocean - Jack Kornfield

Peace is possible. We can step out of the struggle with ourselves, with our judgments and fears and inner conflicts. We can learn to live in peace and with a kind heart, without believing the reactive mind.

Stopping The War Within - Jack Kornfield

If there is one thing this world needs, it is more compassion. With tenderness and courage we can learn compassion for ourselves and others.

The Practice Of Compassion - Jack Kornfield

We are always in transition, each new day is a rebirth. This pith instruction from the Tibetan Book of the Dead invites us to let go into our luminous true nature.

Meditation from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead - Jack Kornfield

“Enlightenment is one with the trusting heart.”- Zen proverb

You can learn to trust the big picture, you can learn to trust your inner knowing,  you can be inspired by trust. These simple meditations invite you to find in yourself a trusting heart.

Meditations On Trust - Jack Kornfield

Eternity is always here. It is always Now.

In this simple meditation, we are invited to become "The One Who Knows," the spacious witness to all things. We can take a breath, come to rest, step outside of time, let go of making and doing and planning, and remember the vast openness outside of thoughts and the entanglements of time.  

Let’s meet there.

Open To Timelessness - Jack Kornfield

In this guided meditation, we will explore how to transform the difficult emotions that arise in our lives. Practicing with the power of loving awareness and interested attention to these intense states in body and heart, we can create a field of deep understanding and transformation.

Transforming Difficult Emotions - Jack Kornfield

We need compassion to help us be tender with our difficulties and not close off to them in fear. This is how healing takes place. This meditation and visualization can help.

Wisdom In The Midst Of Difficulties - Jack Kornfield

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

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.

Wisdom In The Midst Of Difficulties - Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield

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