Jack Kornfield: 12 Principles of Forgiveness
The acclaimed author and teacher Jack Kornfield explains the principles that are integral to the process of forgiving, according to Buddhist philosophy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RBTd23RN0
Stories: It’s a Beautiful Way to Live: Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield [Meditation teacher and Co-Founder of Spirit Rock] reflects on the role of wisdom in our technology centric culture and how practices from Eastern contemplative traditions can play a role in the West, for [...]
Compassion, by Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield — Compassion. Compassion is the natural relationship of the heart to sorrow — the movement of the heart in sympathy with other beings and with one's self. Relating to life with compassion allows [...]
Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield
A three part guided meditation on Buddha Nature, forgiveness and equanimity with Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRLemipLW1Q
Jack Kornfield: The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
The renowned teacher and author Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness--and explains how the next story could be yours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRP-Q4mMtk
Balancing Act, an Interview with Jack Kornfield
11/23/11 by The Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Jack Kornfield is a clinical psychologist, author, and one of the most well-known teachers of Buddhism in the West. […]
Buddha Wanted – Apply Within
by Jack Kornfield: These are extraordinary times for a spiritual seeker. Modern spiritual bookstores bulge with texts of Christian, Jewish, Sufi, and Hindu mystical practices. […]
Theravada Buddhism
an interview with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein: Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein are two Americans who traveled in Southeast Asia and India as Peace Corps volunteers in the ’60s. […]
Jack Kornfield: Right understanding
by Jack Kornfield: This meditation practice, as many of you have done with this day of sitting and walking, was actually quite a lot. […]
Mindfulness and the Brain with Jack Kornfield and Dan Siegel
Jack Kornfield talks about mindfullness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArVTV4CQduM
Teacher who helped shape American Buddhism is still on a quest
5/29/10 by Kate Linthicum: In 1972, Jack Kornfield stepped off a plane in Washington, D.C., his head shaved and his body swathed in golden robes. […]
The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
8/23/11 Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness–and explains how the next story could be yours. […]
Jack Kornfield: The Trustworthy Heart
By Barbara Graham: After years of spiritual practice, Jack Kornfield found he had emotional and relationship issues still unaddressed. […]
Enlightenments
Fall 2010 by Jack Kornfield: On a meditation retreat several years ago, late one evening after the Dharma talk, a woman raised her hand and asked one last question: “Is enlightenment just a myth?” [...]
The Coolest Meditator in the World
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: He turned 78 last Saturday and still says he meditates for three hours every day, starting at 4 a.m. […]
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
by Tara Brach: My earliest memories of being happy are of playing in the ocean. When our family began going to Cape Cod in the summer, the low piney woods, high dunes, and wide sweep [...]
Joseph Campbell – Transformations of Myth Through Time
A Joseph Campbell lecture on the tradition and evolution of Buddhism beginning thousands of years ago. He goes into great detail about the how Buddhism changes through time. […]
Reflections of Your Spirit – Who are you really?
by Laura Alden Kamm: Buddhism teaches us, above all, that insights perceived through direct life experience cannot be bound by rigid dogma. […]
Quotes by Tara Brach
1. “Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the [...]
Come to Your Senses
Accepting our physical sensations—whether pleasant or not—is one of the most challenging and liberating of practices. […]
Letting Life Live Through Us: Healing and Awakening Through our Bodies
by Tara Brach: There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, […]
Creating Peace by Letting Go of Blame
by Tara Brach: We’ve all been hurt, disappointed, betrayed, maybe even abused. Sometimes the perpetrator is someone we love; at other times it may be an institution such as our employer or our government; still [...]
An Interview With Tara Brach
An interview with Tara Brach […]
When Ego Meets Non-Ego
by Andrea Miller: The open sky, the scent of pine, the smell of sea—summer in Cape Cod felt to Tara Brach like her true home. As she was growing up, the family’s summerhouse filled with [...]
Working with Our Stories: An Interview with Tara Brach
by Tara Brach: Inquiring Mind: In your book you talk about being caught for years in what you call “the trance of unworthiness,” always feeling as if something were wrong with you. How did you first [...]
Introduction to Meditation – Visiting Yourself Regularly, Part 2 (9/26/11)
These two classes cover the basic instructions for Buddhist mindfulness (vipassana or insight) meditation. The first class explores the attitude we bring to meditation that makes it rewarding, and the training that helps us in "coming [...]
Relating Wisely to Desire (8/10/11)
Without desire, this world would not exist. While this universal energy is entirely natural, if we are not mindful of it, desire can become a narrowed fixation or addiction that creates deep suffering. This talk explores [...]
Befriending Irene (9/5/11)
Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and anger, you can cultivate the wings of freedom--the mindfulness and compassion--that free you.This talk explores how the habit of being reactive causes us [...]
Introduction to Meditation: Do You Make Regular Visits to Yourself?
These two classes cover the basic instructions for Buddhist mindfulness (vipassana or insight) meditation. The first class explores the attitude we bring to meditation that makes it rewarding, and the training that helps us in "coming [...]
Attend and Befriend – Healing the Fear Body (3/30/12)
Our fear management strategies--versions of fight/flight-- contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being [...]
Tara Brach – Facing Fear
Tara Brach, author of Facing Our Fear & The Tao of Courageous Living. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPiWIGwWGHI
Tara Brach – The Art and Science of Meditation
This is a four part, 4 hour 37 minute - Introduction to the Art, Science and Practice of Meditation (combined into one file). Part 1: Mindfulness of Sensations and Breath. Part 2: Mindfulness of Emotions. Part [...]
DT Suzuki Museum
Daisetsu Suzuki played a key role in introducing Zen Buddhism to the West. The museum was designed by internationally acclaimed architect Yoshio Taniguchi. […]
Sometimes the Crisis Is the Healing. {Pema Chödrön}
“To stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening.” ~ Pema Chödrön […]
Riding the wave of secular meditation
By Michelle Boorstein: As they are every Wednesday night, the little residential roads around the River Road Unitarian Church in Bethesda, Md., were gridlocked with traffic. […]
What Buddha Might Say to Bill Gates
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Bill Gates is a rare breed. He defies what most billionaires appear to be: […]
Nobody Has to Be Anybody!
Moojiji: No sadhana, no spiritual practice for you. You have the easy way out; you just be nobody! […]
What the Buddha Might Say to Deepak Chopra
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Many years ago, we were teaching a meditation weekend in Plymouth, England. […]
IDN-IPS–Buddhist Leader Pushes for Nuclear Abolition Treaty
Daisaku Ikeda: The following is the full text of an email interview with SGI President Daisaku Ikeda […]
The Seven Line Prayer to Padma Sambhava
The Seven Line Prayer to Padma Sambhava from, Yeshe Tsogyal, the Jewel in the Lotus chants to awaken the Buddhist Heart. […]
Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal Song of Praise
The Dakini Yeshe Tsogyel was the great female Buddha who helped to establish Buddhism in the land of Tibet. Her mastery of tantra and dzogchen was perfect, her compassionate display profound. […]
The Invitation from Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
The invitation to the deities from the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal sadhana. Khandroma (dakini) Yeshe Tsogyal is the Queen of all Tantric Siddhas. […]
The Mantra of Guru Padmasambhava
Guru Padmashambhava, meaning lotus born, is regarded as Buddha and founder of Tibetan Buddhism in the 8th century together with Yeshe Tsogyal and King Trisong of Tibet. […]
Ven. Dhyani on Yeshe Tsoygal
“A Woman’s Journey to Enlightenment” at Vajra Dakini Nunnery. Through the life of Yeshe Tsogyal, the first enlightened woman of Tibet, we experience overcoming all obstacles on the path to enlightenment. […]
The Dakini Prayer
The Dakini Tsogyal Prayer which spontaneously accomplishes the two goals: […]