Jack Kornfield's Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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.
The value of mindfulness practice is discovered in the freedom we find through awareness. Without awareness, we repeat the patterns of fear and conditioning that keep us entangled individually and collectively. Without awareness, we suffer. With awareness, we can see the contractions of the mind, how the mind gets caught and how we can learn to let go. With awareness we can reawaken to the purity of joy and freedom that is fundamental to our true nature.
As a Dharma teacher, I simply remind others how it is possible to live in this world and find freedom. I listen to practitioners and try to remind them that it is truly possible to be free.
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2000-10-01
10 Perfections
2011-09-12
9/12 ... Peace Begins Now
2012-05-14
A Conversation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche- Open Heart, Open Mind
2000-06-26
A Gathering Of Elders (Buddhist Commentary Talk)
2006-05-08
A Life Committed To Dharma, With Bo Lozoff
2018-04-09
A Peaceful Heart - How to live with balance, equanimity and a peaceful heart.
2022-02-28
A Peaceful Heart In A Time Of War And The Legacy Of Thich Nhat Hanh | Monday Ni…
1986-03-23
A Wise Heart
1993-03-29
Advice From The Dalai Lama
2009-04-13
Aliveness & Awareness
1986-01-02
All We Need To Know
2001-07-16
All You Need To Know
1988-01-01
Asking The Hard Questions
2016-03-28
Attachment, Commitment and Love
2002-04-08
Awakening Is Always Possible
2002-04-08
Awakening Is Always Possible
1989-01-01
Awareness And Intimacy
1998-04-11
Awareness Of Feelings
2010-10-18
Baby Blessing - October 18, 2010
2022-10-03
Beacon of Love Meditation
2008-11-17
Beauty, Hope & Fear - part 1 of 2
2008-11-17
Beauty, Hope & Fear - part 2 of 2
1997-10-13
Being Aware Of The Mind
2016-10-27
Big Mind Meditation
2013-10-24
Big Sky Bell Meditation AM
2015-10-28
Big Sky Meditation
2011-04-04
Bodhisattva
2011-11-21
Bodhisatva
2022-12-19
Breath of the Earth Meditation | Monday Night
2001-10-30
Buddha Dharma At People Of Color Retreat
1990-10-01
Buddha: The Miracle Of Education
2007-07-09
Buddhist Psychology
2018-02-25
Buddhist Psychology
2009-04-20
Burma Night (Part 1)
2009-04-20
Burma Night (Part 2)
2020-03-02
Calm Clarity Compassion | Monday Night talk
2022-06-27
Centering Meditation | Monday Night
2020-01-13
Climate Change / Ram Dass | Monday Night talk
1988-04-01
Clouds Of The Mind
1989-09-01
Co-Dependence And Compassion
2008-11-24
Compassion
2013-03-12
Compassion
2000-12-11
Compassion
2001-11-26
Compassion
2011-03-14
Compassion and the Awakened Heart
2014-04-20
Compassion As We Take Action
2022-02-28
Compassion in a Time of War Meditation | Monday Night
1988-01-01
Connecting Practice With Your Deepest Love
2001-06-11
Courage And Tenderness: Stories For An Awakened Heart
2020-04-20
Courage in Our Difficult Times | Monday Night talk
1991-08-01
Creating A Sacred Container For Practice
2014-04-30
Death and Identity and the Heavenly Messengers
1993-11-22
Death As An Advisor
2005-02-14
Desire, Eros, And Love
1992-09-28
Desire, Passion And Love Of Dharma
1995-05-08
Developing A Heartfelt Motivation For Practice
2005-08-22
Dialogue On Basic Goodness
2011-09-05
Dialogue with John Peacock
2011-08-08
Dialogue with Sylvia Boorstein
2000-08-07
Discovery Love of Meditation - Balance & Dying
2023-02-06
Embodied Presence Meditation | Monday Night
2001-10-29
Embracing Contradiction in a Time of War
2015-10-26
Emptiness and the Power of Love
2013-03-26
Emptiness, Creativity & Joy as Appropriate Response
2000-04-24
Emptiness: Poetry Of Nagarjuna
2017-06-19
Energy to Awaken
2004-05-03
Enjoying The Fruits Of Meditation
2004-05-03
Enjoying The Fruits Of Meditation
2001-04-02
Enlightenment
2011-03-23
Enlightenments
2011-05-17
Enlightenments - Part 1
2011-05-17
Enlightenments - Part 2
2000-11-20
Equanimity
2002-09-16
Equanimity
2001-12-10
Equanimity
2003-02-10
Eros & Love
1994-06-20
Expansion And Contraction
2007-07-16
Factors Of Enlightenment
2002-07-22
Faith and One Dharma
1993-06-21
Finding The Inner Light
1986-03-03
Finding Your Own Goodness
2001-10-22
Forgetfulness and one Who knows
2010-05-17
Forgiveness
2021-09-20
Forgiving Heart | Monday Night Talk
2021-09-20
Forgiving Heart Meditation | Monday Night
2002-07-29
Foundation for the People of Burma
2007-11-06
Four Noble Truths
2016-10-23
Fourth Morning Guided Meditation
2010-09-13
Freedom & The Way it is: Part 2
2010-09-06
Freedom & The Way it is...
1993-03-08
Freedom And Attachment
1989-01-01
Freeing Ourselves From Views
2011-04-18
Garden of the Heart
2013-04-08
Garden of the Heart 2.0
2013-03-19
Gates of Awakening
2002-06-10
Generosity
2021-11-22
Gratitude and Generosity Dharma Talk | Monday Night Talk
2021-11-22
Gratitude and Generosity Meditation | Monday Night
2022-07-25
Guided Lovingkindness Meditation | Monday Night
2015-12-14
Guided Meditation
2014-05-06
Guided Meditation - Emotions
2016-02-15
Guided Meditation from Monday Night Class on February 15, 2016
2013-05-20
Guided Meditation with Sound
1986-04-01
Guiding Your Own Practice
1986-04-01
Happiness And Joy In Practice
2008-06-09
Happiness And The Way Of The Bodhisattva
2010-04-05
Healing
1991-01-01
Healing
2004-03-29
Healing
2022-05-16
Here and Now Meditation | Monday Night
2013-04-15
Holding Identity Lightly
2013-10-14
Homage to S.N. Goenka
2008-10-29
How And Why We Become Enlightened
2016-10-21
Identity and Freedom
1993-07-05
Independence & Racism
2013-02-18
Inspired Leadership
2002-09-23
Intention
2007-06-25
Interdependence Day
2004-07-05
Interdependence Day
1989-01-01
Introduction To Meditation
1989-01-01
Introduction To Meditation: Integrating Meditation Into Your Life
2012-08-13
Jack Kornfield with Chade-Meng Tan, author of Search Inside Yourself
2000-12-18
Joy
2004-12-06
Joy
2021-04-12
Joy (Mudita)
2010-11-15
Joy & its Causes
2004-08-02
Joy of Renunciation
2010-08-09
Karma & the Power of Intention
2012-12-03
Karma & the Power of Intention
2000-09-04
Labor Of Love - Right Livelihood
1989-03-13
Let It Be
2013-10-17
Liberation and Mindfulness
2017-10-17
Liberation and Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1993-12-31
Light In The Dark
2001-10-01
Listening to Find the Way
1991-01-01
Listening To The Song
1992-09-21
Listening With Our Whole Being
2021-07-19
Listening with the Heart | Monday Night Talk
1995-02-13
Love And Eros
2001-11-19
Loving Kindness
2014-04-20
Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2019-12-16
Loving the World | Monday Night talk
2021-08-23
Loving Witness
2021-08-23
Loving Witness Meditation | Monday Night
2010-11-29
Lovingkindness
2011-06-27
Making Peace Among All
2020-12-14
Meditation: Breath Love In Breath Love Out | Monday Night Talk
2020-04-20
Meditation: Courage in Our Difficult Times | Monday Night
2021-04-12
Meditation: Joy (Mudita) | Monday Night
2020-11-23
Meditation: Just Like Me Compassion Practice | Monday Night
2021-07-19
Meditation: Listening with the Heart | Monday Night
2021-02-08
Meditation: Loving Awareness | Monday Night
2019-12-16
Meditation: Loving the World | Monday Night
2021-01-25
Meditation: Reconciliation | Monday Night
2021-06-14
Meditation: Summer Solstice | Monday Night
2021-05-24
Meditation: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night
2021-03-22
Meditation: The Sacred Pause | Monday Night
2007-05-28
Memorial Day
2014-05-26
Memorial Day & Tibetan Monks chanting
2012-05-28
Memorial Day Healing
2008-12-01
Metta
2002-09-02
Metta
2000-11-13
Metta
2018-05-07
Mindful Loving Awareness - Monday Night Dharma Talk - Part 1 - The Three Gates…
2018-05-07
Mindful Loving Awareness - Monday Night Dharma Talk - Part 2 - Big Sky Mind Me…
2021-10-11
Mindful Loving Witness Meditation
2022-06-27
Mindful Respect | Monday Night Talk
1993-11-08
Mindfulness Of Death
2012-10-19
Mindfulness, Identity and Incarnation
2016-02-15
Monday Night Class Dharma Talk - Nobility and Love
2019-03-04
Monday Night Dharma Talk - Healing/Liberation through Mindful Loving Awareness
2017-06-19
Monday Night Meditation
2016-06-13
Monday Night Meditation Class with Jack Kornfield
2016-05-23
Monday Night Meditation class with Jack Kornfield and Mark Coleman
2017-07-31
Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2017-12-18
Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2012-07-30
Mystery
2013-07-22
Mystery & the Graciousness of Uncertainty
2003-06-02
Nachiketa - Lord of Death
2012-04-09
Nachiketa & the Lord of Death
2013-10-23
Nachiketa and the Lord of Death
2018-08-20
Nachiketo and the Lord of Death - How to move through difficulties as a transfo…
2012-09-10
Natchiketa & the Lord of Death
2013-12-23
New Years Blessings & Kind Intentions...
2012-04-19
Noble Eightfold path
2017-10-30
Not yet titled
2011-10-17
Nothing Left Out
2021-12-20
Nourish And Connect Meditation | Monday Night
2021-10-11
On Death | Monday Night Talk
1987-02-01
On Forgiveness
1987-02-01
On Hunger
2007-04-02
On Meditation - part 1
2007-04-02
On Meditation - part 2
2000-03-21
On Not Knowing
2005-07-18
On Turning 60
2022-03-28
Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation | Monday Night
2022-04-25
Opening the Heart Meditation | Monday Night
1989-12-01
Peace
1993-08-23
Peace In The Midst Of Change
2022-03-28
Peace is Possible | Monday Night Talk
2008-02-11
Peacemaking In The Middle East
2002-07-08
Perfection of Energy
2004-08-23
Perfection of Energy
2004-07-19
Perfection of Generosity
2004-09-06
Perfection of Patience
2002-07-15
Perfection of Wisdom
2004-08-30
Perfection of Wisdom
2015-10-21
Planting Beautiful Seeds
2011-10-10
Poetry & Beauty
2010-06-28
Poetry Beauty & Art
2014-08-11
Poetry in Dharma
1993-04-15
Poetry, Beauty And Art
2002-10-21
Poetry, Beauty, & Art
1984-08-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Action
1984-07-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Attitude
1984-10-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Concentration
1984-09-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Effort
1984-08-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Livelihood
1984-08-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Speech
1985-03-01
Practice In Daily Life: Right Understanding
2021-04-12
Q and A: Joy (Mudita) | Monday Night talk
2021-01-25
Q and A: Reconciliation | Monday Night talk
2020-12-14
Q and A: Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk
2021-02-08
Q and A: Seeing the World with the Heart of Wisdom | Monday Night talk
2020-08-24
Q and A: Suffering is Not the End of the Story | Monday Night talk
2021-06-14
Q and A: Summer Solstice | Monday Night talk
2021-05-24
Q and A: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night talk
2020-07-20
Q and A: The Peaceful Heart | Monday Night talk
2021-03-22
Q and A: The Sacred Pause | Monday Night talk
2020-11-23
Q and A: Wonder, Mystery, Awe, Gratitude | Monday Night talk
2002-06-24
Q&A
2007-10-29
Quiet The Mind, Open The Heart
2011-11-14
Quiet your mind & then live Fully..
2021-01-25
Reconciliation | Monday Night talk
2010-08-16
Redemption
2003-01-13
Redemption
2013-08-26
Redemption
2006-04-03
Reflections On Bali
2020-12-14
Rekindle and Renew | Monday Night talk
2018-06-11
Remembering Ajahn Chah
1993-07-12
Remembering The Pleasure Of Peace
2002-07-01
Renunciation
1995-12-04
Resolving Conflict
2002-10-07
Respect
2018-09-17
Respect - The beauty that grows from respect for all
2012-09-03
Respect & Dignity
2004-12-08
Respect And Dignity
2007-04-30
Respect And The Dalai Lama
2007-05-21
Respect And Wise Understanding
2001-09-24
Response to 9/11/01, with Salaam Kajlili
1996-08-12
Return To The Sacred
2004-11-29
Return to the Sacred
2001-02-05
Right Livelihood
2013-09-02
Right Livelihood & Redemption
2010-09-20
Ritual in Teaching
1992-12-29
Roots Of Buddhist Psychology
2007-07-30
Sacred Journey
2007-08-20
Sanctuary
2008-06-30
Sanctuary
2015-12-14
Season of Generosity
2011-08-15
Seat of Awakening
2016-01-04
Seeing Anew
2021-02-08
Seeing the World with the Heart of Wisdom | Monday Night talk
2021-12-20
Setting An Intention Of The Heart Dharma Talk | Monday Night Talk
2000-02-21
Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2004-11-15
Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
1987-02-01
Sexuality And Relationships
2013-07-29
Simplicity & Sympathy
2001-08-13
Simplicity And Sympathy
1991-01-03
Spiritual Maturity
2016-11-14
Spirituality and Politics (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) Part 1 of 2
2016-12-12
Spirituality and Politics (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) Part 2 of 2
1987-02-01
Spirituality And Sexuality
2000-10-30
Spirituality and Social Response
2011-03-26
Stories of Our Teachers
2020-08-24
Suffering is Not the End of the Story | Monday Night talk
2021-06-14
Summer Solstice | Monday Night Talk
2017-03-20
Surprising Delights of Renunciation (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2001-12-03
Sympathetic Joy
2007-09-03
Take The One Seat
2009-06-15
Take the One Seat
2002-05-06
Take the One Seat
1989-07-01
Teachers And Cults
2008-06-23
Teaching From The Wise Heart
2002-06-03
Tending the Garden of the Heart
2022-04-25
Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart
2009-03-01
Tending The Silence
2016-09-26
Tending Yourself, Tending the World
2019-10-21
The Art and Heart of Forgiveness - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2011-03-07
The Awakened Heart
2011-04-11
The Awakened Heart
2012-04-02
The Beauty of Retreat
2007-06-11
The Bodhisattha
2016-10-28
The Bodhisattva & Power of Intention
2008-11-10
The Bodhisattva Leader
2017-10-23
The Bodhisattva Path of Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-04-01
The Bodhisatva's Way
2022-08-22
The Buddha's Last Teachings | Monday Night Talk
2018-10-22
The Buddha's Last Teachings: A Story of Inspiration and Wisdom - Monday Night D…
2012-09-17
The Buddhas Last Teachings
2021-05-24
The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night Dharma Talk
2006-05-15
The Depth Of Forgiveness
2005-01-17
The Dharma And Martin Luther King
2019-06-03
The Dharma of Climate Change - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2007-10-22
The Dharma Of Community Development
2007-12-10
The Divine Abodes
2013-09-09
The Dragon and the 10 Gowns
2017-10-14
The Essence of Buddhist Psychology - Daylong, Part 1 morning
2017-10-14
The Essence of Buddhist Psychology - Daylong, Part 2 afternoon
2007-09-17
The Feminine In Buddhism
1999-09-26
The Four Noble Truths And The Four Practices Of Mindfulness
2004-06-21
The Freedom Beyond Optimism And Pessimism
2013-10-25
The Fruits of Practice
2013-11-04
The Fruits of Practice
2018-02-19
The Garden of the Heart - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2017-01-30
The Generous Heart (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2001-08-27
The Heart's Respect
2001-08-27
The Heart's Respect
1988-01-01
The Importance Of Being Aware Of Feelings
1989-11-01
The Inspiration Of Dipa Ma
1993-12-06
The Intention To Awaken
2017-02-27
The Joy of Virtue (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2010-05-24
The Joys of Awakened Heart
1990-06-01
The Joys Of Integrity
1990-05-27
The Joys of Monastic Life, Part 10
1990-05-27
The Joys of Monastic Life, Part 7
1990-05-26
The Joys of Monastic-Life, Part 1
1989-04-23
The Life Of Expansion And Contraction
2018-12-17
The Marvelous Bodhisattva Vimalakirti: A story of entering all the realms with …
2022-05-16
The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom | Monday Night Talk
1993-05-03
The Nature Of Mind I
1993-05-03
The Nature Of Mind II
1994-02-20
The Ocean Of Breath
2002-05-13
The One Who Knows
2013-05-20
The One Who Knows...
1991-01-01
The Path Of Parenting
2020-07-20
The Peaceful Heart | Monday Night talk
2002-08-26
The Perfection of Determination
2002-08-12
The Perfection of Truth
2009-11-09
The Perfection of Truthfulness
2009-11-30
The Perfections/Paramitas with Kilung Jigme Rinpoche Part 1
2009-11-30
The Perfections/Paramitas with Kilung Jigme Rinpoche Part 2
2012-03-05
The Perfume of Dharma
2004-11-22
The Power of Intention
2001-11-12
The Power of Intention
2014-04-07
The Power of Pilgrimage
2019-04-29
The Power of Story - Stories that open the mind, mend the heart and lead to joy…
2002-08-05
The Practice of Patience
2022-09-12
The Reality of the Present Meditation | Monday Night
1995-06-26
The Respect Of Sacred Attention
1990-02-01
The Roots Of Buddhist Psychology
1998-04-16
The Sacred Journey
2021-03-22
The Sacred Pause | Monday Night talk
2007-10-10
The Second Foundation Of Mindfulness
2001-04-30
The Teaching of Ajahn Chah
2014-05-04
The Ten Paramitas
2017-04-24
The Tender Heart of Life and Death (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
1998-03-30
The Three Vehicles
2008-10-20
The Wisdom Of Ordination
2019-11-04
The Wisdom of the One Who Knows - Monday Night Dharma Talk
2007-11-19
There's Nothing More Helpful Than Mindfulness
1999-10-14
Three Trainings, Three Freedoms
1988-01-01
Training The Inner Child
1993-06-07
Transformation Of Life
2012-10-15
Trauma and Freedom
2022-08-22
Tree of Enlightenment Meditation | Monday Night
1987-04-01
Trungpa Rinpoche
2010-06-21
Turning of the Seasons
1986-12-31
Using The Practice For Healing
2016-08-29
Vastness and Love
2012-11-12
Veterans Day - The Possibilities of Awakening
2013-11-11
Veterans Day Bodhisatva
2009-09-07
Virtue & Integrity
2002-06-17
Virtuous Heart
1991-01-04
Wakening In The Midst Of Life
2022-11-14
Waves of Experience Meditation | Monday Night
1992-09-14
What Changes The Spiritual Journey Brings
2014-06-02
What changes us in Spiritual Life
1997-06-02
What The Buddha Taught: The Buddha's Last Teachings
1997-02-03
What The Buddha Taught: The Eightfold Path
1997-02-17
What The Buddha Taught: The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2013-03-05
Who Am I? The Question of Identity
2001-05-07
Who Are You Really?
1993-02-22
Who Are You, Wanderer?
2019-08-26
Who Are You? The Mystery of Identity and the Gift of Discovery, Understanding a…
2010-12-20
Winter Solstice
2012-12-17
Winter Solstice; Transforming Darkness
2014-06-30
Wisdom
2007-08-27
Wisdom & The Characteristics Of Life
2008-07-07
Wisdom And The Characteristics Of Life
2001-01-29
Wise Action
2000-10-23
Wise Concentration with Sister Dipankara
2001-02-12
Wise Effort
2009-09-21
Wise Effort & Aliveness
2001-02-26
Wise Mindfulness
2022-07-25
Wise Society | Monday Night Talk
2009-06-29
Wise Thought & Freedom with Bhante Buddharakkhita
2008-06-02
Wise Understanding
2010-10-18
with Rinchen Khandro Choegyal: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma.
2010-10-18
with Rinchen Khandro Rinpoche: Carrying The Lamp Of The Dhamma
2020-11-23
Wonder, Mystery, Awe, Gratitude | Monday Night talk
1988-10-25
Working With Beginnings And Endings
2001-10-15
Working With The Heart In Troubled Times
2001-10-15
Working With The Heart In Troubled Times
2014-01-06
You Can't Stop the Waves...
2011-05-23
Your Buddha Nature
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Select one of Jack Kornfield's 23 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
1990-05-26
The Joys of Monastic Life
2007-10-08
Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1
2007-11-01
Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-06-22
Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers
2008-10-23
Insight Meditation
2009-03-02
Insight Meditation March Month Long
2010-09-19
Community Dharma Leader 4 Retreat 1
2011-03-06
March Monthlong Retereat
2011-05-14
Dedicated Practitioners Program 4 Retreat #1
2012-04-18
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-29
Labor Day Retreat
2012-10-18
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-03-04
March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-10-16
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-11-04
Heavenly Messengers: Awakening Through Illness, Aging and Death
2014-04-20
Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2014-05-02
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-10-20
Fall Insight Retreat
2016-10-19
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-10-16
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-02-24
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2022-08-14
Cultivating Concentration
