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Jack Kornfield's Dharma Talks
Jack Kornfield
Over the years of teaching, I've found a growing need for profound lovingkindness and compassion--a transformation of the heart--to underlie the insights and understandings that come out of the practice. An opening of the mind needs to be supported by compassion from the heart if the practice is to be integrated, fulfilled, and lived in our lives.
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2012-04-02 The Beauty of Retreat 59:04
The unfolding of the inner life, body, heart and mind. The blessings of retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2001-05-07 Who Are You Really? 59:43
An inquiry into the essence of who we really are, accepting and honoring the totality of ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2007-07-09 Buddhist Psychology 63:44
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2021-10-11 Mindful Loving Witness Meditation 24:31
Gently acknowledge any strong waves of thought or emotion that pull you away from the breath. Let them rise and fall, then return to breath. Become the mindful loving witness of each breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2022-10-03 Beacon of Love Meditation 24:46
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2022-12-19 Breath of the Earth Meditation | Monday Night 21:57
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 For more teachings like this, please subscribe to my YouTube channel. This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 12/19/22.
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2023-02-06 Embodied Presence Meditation | Monday Night 22:40
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2022-04-25 Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart 55:26
What kind of seeds are you planting and tending with your words and your deeds? Every seed watered can become something that changes the world. If you want to practice, take a walk and look at the buds on the trees in the spring. Each bud is an answer to despair or apathy. You start to sense you are part of something so much bigger. Feel the survival of thousands of years of ancestors in your bones supporting you. “Though I do not believe a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”—Thoreau
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2022-11-14 Waves of Experience Meditation | Monday Night 19:57
Inviting listeners to breathe softly and naturally 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 dwelling in each of us—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.”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2018-06-11 Remembering Ajahn Chah 64:27
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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