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Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation - Jack Kornfield
A recording of Kornfield's long-running Monday Night Dharma Talk at Spirit Rock.
About the teacher
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest tradition under Ajahn Chah before returning to the United States and becoming, alongside Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, one of the founding teachers who brought Vipassana meditation to a Western lay audience. He later trained as a clinical psychologist, and much of his subsequent teaching works to bridge classical Buddhist practice with Western psychological understanding.
He continues to teach at Spirit Rock, including the long-running Monday Night Meditation & Talk, and leads the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program together with Tara Brach.
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? — from Jack Kornfield's Buddha's Little Instruction Book”Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield on What Really Heals
Kornfield draws on decades of Buddhist practice and psychology to ask what healing actually requires.
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Jack KornfieldInsight Meditation
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Ep. 247 – Living the Dharma
An episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield's own podcast.
From the podcast Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
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Lay practice, Burmese roots
Insight Meditation
The modern Insight movement that brought Theravada meditation practice to lay audiences in the West, largely independent of monastic robes and ritual forms.
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