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

Jack Kornfield describes finding a light in the dark via Buddhist wisdom on forgiveness, transience, and a profound sense of freedom.

Through ancient storytelling and dharmic conversation, Jack Kornfield helps us grasp forgiving ourselves and others, keeping a connection to our senses and instincts, and resting in our Buddha nature. 

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 “To forgive means simply that we will not put anyone out of our heart because to do so closes us. It reduces us from being human.” – Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 171 – A Light In The Dark

Reflecting on impermanence, Jack Kornfield explains that despite our physical frailty our spirit can never truly die.

Where can we go when we die? Jack Kornfield explores the recycling of energy, our limitlessness beyond death, and how death enables us to live more presently.

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"There's this amazing thing with death that there is both less of someone and yet more of them. There's some way in which you can walk in the woods and they are there to speak too. Being with death slows us down, it softens us, it makes us more gracious." — Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom Ep. 173 – Death as an Advisor

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

Moving beyond our small sense of self, Jack Kornfield introduces us to the ways intention, love, and acceptance can transform us.

Amidst our ever-changing lives, we can find the patterns which form from our hearts and realize the source of who we are.

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"Our heart is the garden into which we plant seeds and nourish them. Depending on our intention, gradually, we shape the patterns of our lives. What's important then is not so much what we say or do, but what is the intention with that? " – Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 174 – Intention and Transformation

In simple, heartfelt presence, Jack Kornfield teaches us about coming into the dharma body.

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"You can see it in your life. It's helpful to be aware when you drive, or if you paint or you do computer programming or you make love, or you write poetry, or you garden. Mindfulness, I declare, is all helpful. With that presence is the path to freedom, to awakening." — Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

- Stories of Thich Nhat Hanh
- Becoming the Buddha
- Cosmic Breakthroughs
- Navigating Death
- Mindfull Awareness

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 176 – The Dharma Body

In this episode, Jack Kornfield helps us discover how the ocean of breath can lead to greater compassion for all.

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"With the opening of breath comes a spaciousness or a healing quality which is that we can allow ourselves to hold in compassion, with a kindness of heart, all that arises." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

- Breath as the movement of spirit
- The cycle and rhythms of life
- Developing awareness of the breath
- Noticing our senses

This 1994 talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 178 – Ocean Of Breath

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield teaches us about fostering femininity in our dharma practice.

"Part of what's happening to practice is that it is becoming balanced with a greater emphasis of the feminine...instead of independence there's more teaching of interdependence, of relationship to one's body, relationship to the earth." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

- The relationship of birth and death
- Loving deeply by opening our hearts, bodies, and mind
- Moving from the masculine to the feminine 
- The power of forgiveness

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 179 – Feminine Face Of Dharma

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 3/6/2023.

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Embodied Presence Meditation – Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein explore the emergence of Western Buddhism and balancing faith with wisdom.

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"In the Buddhist tradition it's said that one of the prayers one might make is: May I be born in circumstances that I may experience the Dharma that will bring me to awaken the heart of boundless compassion and discover inner freedom." – Jack Kornfield

"That kind of questioning which isn't cynical and isn't arrogant but is really wondering, really wanting to know the truth for oneself, I think of as an essential component of faith." – Sharon Salzberg 

"Even in those first few minutes, what I discovered was there was a way to look into the mind as well as looking out through it. To me that was revelatory." – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein touch on:

The formation of the Insight Meditation Society
The emergence of Western Buddhism
The balance of faith and wisdom 
Starting small with meditation
Being the product of our conditioning
Having compassion for the human predicament

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 180 – One Dharma With Sharon Salzberg And Joseph Goldstein

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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.

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