A best selling author and clinical psychologist shares his direct experience in mindfulness training, gained from over three decades of study and practice, to invite listeners to awaken to a richer spiritual life in this classic study course on vipassana meditation.

The Inner Art of Meditation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kornfield Ph.D., Jack

Alternative Medicine

SOUNDS TRUE.

Jack Kornfield's A Path with Heart has been acclaimed as the most significant book yet about American Buddhism―a definitive guide to the practice of traditional mindfulness in America today.
On this audio edition, Kornfield teaches the key principles of Buddhism's cherished vipassana (insight) tradition, and puts them into direct service, with the unique needs of the contemporary seeker in mind.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

When does enlightenment come? At the end of the spiritual journey? Or the beginning? On After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, Jack Kornfield―author of the modern classic on American Buddhism, A Path with Heart―brings into focus the truth about satori, the awakened state of consciousness, and enlightenment practices today.
"Perfect enlightenment" appears in many texts, Kornfield begins. But how is it viewed among Western teachers and practitioners? To find out, Kornfield talked to more than 100 Zen masters, rabbis, nuns, lamas, monks, and senior meditation students from all walks of life.
The result is this extraordinary look at the hard work we all must do―the laundry―no matter how often we experience ecstatic states of consciousness through meditation and other disciplines.
Sweeping in scope, and warmly told by one of American Buddhism's most trusted voices, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry is a work of both deep inspiration and daily instruction that cuts through the confusion about what enlightenment really is, who it comes to, and how it continues to inform and guide our spiritual lives.
An original audio adaptation of Jack Kornfield's book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.
Course objectives:
Assess how to embrace the joys and sorrows of everyday life after experiencing a transcendent spiritual awakening • Integrate inner knowledge with outer expression and experience • Analyze how to embrace spiritual practice as an invitation to the truth • Plan to embrace our human feelings without judgment • Describe how to recognize the Buddha in each other and create community

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path

At the heart of all Buddhist wisdom lies one astonishing truth: a way out of suffering and into a more deeply fulfilling life is not a myth, but a reality available to you the moment you open your eyes through the power of skillful inquiry. 
For generations, this fact has been proven again and again by those who have learned and tested for themselves what the Buddha taught. Now, with Buddhism for Beginners, celebrated teacher and author Jack Kornfield invites you to experience for yourself the gifts of this vast spiritual tradition.
Created specifically to address the questions and needs of first-time students, this full-length retreat on audio offers an ideal way to learn Buddhism's essential principles and insights. Join this gifted speaker, as he guides you through:
Buddhism's cornerstone teachings, including the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path to inner freedom, the meaning and varieties of karma, the Ten Perfections for opening the heart, the inner tools of samadhi and prajna (concentration and insight), the Four Great Immeasurables, the Buddha's last great teaching, and many other topics • The principles of meditation practice, covering such fundamentals as clarifying awareness and focusing your mind; overcoming distractions and other inner obstacles; using heart-centered practices to sprout the seeds of compassion and loving-kindness, and more • Wisdom stories, poetry, teaching parables, and inspiring true accounts distilled from Buddhism's many historical branches, plus invaluable advice gleaned from Kornfield's own years of experience as a student and a teacher The ancient Buddhist scripture The Path to Purification poses this riddle: The world is entangled in a knot. Who can untangle the tangle? According to the Buddha, the answer is: you can, by learning to see things clearly and simply, as they actually are. 
Now, with Jack Kornfield's Buddhism for Beginners, you will find the tools and teachings you need to begin this great inner adventure of self-discovery and freedom.

Buddhism for Beginners: A Complete Course on the Heart of the Buddha's Teachings (Sounds True Audio Learning Course)

The Buddha said many times that just as the great oceans have but one taste, so do all the true teachings of the dharma: the taste of freedom. Jack Kornfield's The Roots of Buddhist Psychology is an invitation to drink deeply of these teachings to taste the wisdom that flows from the heart of Buddhism's most useful ideas about the interior life, and what brings awakening, freedom, and happiness. 
Among the world's great religions, Buddhism alone has developed a rich, intricate psychology based not on metaphysics, but on the human predicament. Through its strategies, you can find the way to true freedom. 
Buddhism views the mind as a labyrinth of feelings, perceptions, and emotional states. Unhappiness is rooted in unskillful responses to our world: grasping when things are pleasant, aversion when they are unpleasant, and delusion/confusion when they are neutral. Through awareness training, Kornfield teaches, you can transform these responses into real skills that are the path to true happiness. This is the way to inner stillness―the deathless state that allows your wisdom and compassion to flow together for a state of greater knowing. 
Enlivened with many parables, worldly stories, and thoughts from artists, philosophers, and writers, The Roots of Buddhist Psychology can help you to discover for yourself that what you seek is already here.

The Roots of Buddhist Psychology

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Philosophy

As anyone who has tried it knows, meditation looks simple, but at times it can be difficult. The most potential you can have on your contemplative path is a trusted teacher like Jack Kornfield, who stands out as one of the most helpful and encouraging Western instructors for newcomers to the art of meditation.
With Guided Meditation, this renowned Buddhist teacher brings you six practices that will open the door to the serenity and joy of meditation, and serve as your foundation for years to come.
Offering you precise guidance through every step of these transformational practices, Kornfield introduces you to:
Basic sitting practice―The essential starting point for nurturing nonjudgmental spaciousness • The heart-opening techniques of lovingkindness and forgiveness meditation to help you discover liberation from suffering • A visualization exercise for overcoming difficulties by making direct contact with the voice of your highest wisdom • The gratitude and joy meditation, which nourishes an innocent rejoicing in life itself • Mind Like Sky―a practice to enter "original mind," the pure space of awareness that is consciousness itself Since the time of the Buddha, meditation taught under the guidance of an expert has proven to be the easiest and most effective way to begin. Whether you are just starting out with meditation or have decided to reconnect with the ground of your practice, Jack Kornfield's Guided Meditation provides concise and gentle training of the heart and mind to enjoy the fruits of this centuries-old art.
Course objectives:
Apply the six guided meditation practices to cultivate love, awareness, and wisdom • Practice each of the six guided meditation practices as a way to cultivate stillness and "knowing" • Explore mindfulness practices related to awareness of the breath, loving kindness, forgiveness, visualization, gratitude, and the spaciousness of consciousness

Guided Meditation: Six Essential Practices to Cultivate Love, Awareness, and Wisdom

The Buddha Meets Neurobiology in the Science of Heightened Awareness
Mindful awareness creates scientifically recognized enhancements in our mental functions and interpersonal relationships. But how can we integrate this information into our personal or professional lives?
In the Mindfulness and the Brain audio learning course, Jack Kornfield, PhD, and Daniel Siegel, MD, offer theoretical and experiential teachings on the power of inner transformation and the cultivation of a wise and loving heart.
Whether you’re a therapist, healer, educator, parent, meditation practitioner―or anyone interested in developing a healthy mind―this training offers a practical exploration of what it means for our world and us to be able to nurture and sustain heightened awareness
Course objectives:
Summarize basic concepts of neurobiology and neuroplasticity • Explain the difference between the concept of mind and the brain • Summarize the Buddhist model of mental health • Compare awareness with mental activity • Discuss how mindfulness practices can change the brain • Practice mindfulness meditation exercises • Evaluate the practical relevance of these insights on the individual and on the world as a whole An Integration of Head and Heart
In this training, you’ll discover how mindful practice helps reduce suffering and promote resilience; the "resonance circuit" that enables an individual to attune to oneself and others; and how intrapersonal attunement can catalyze mental, interpersonal, and psychological well-being. /p&gt;
From scientific findings and down-to-earth Buddhist perspectives to memorable anecdotes and real-life stories that illustrate key concepts, Mindfulness and the Brain invites you to discover a more integrated and connected way of knowing and developing a wise and loving heart.
Course Highlights
Clinical findings on the transformative power of interpersonal neurobiology • The structure of the mind and how understanding consciousness can lead to freedom • Neural integration and how it helps create more balanced lives • How to incorporate compassion and forgiveness into our personal and professional life • More than six hours of essential teachings and tools for cultivating healthy change in ourselves and others

Mindfulness and the Brain: A Professional Training in the Science and Practice of Meditative Awareness

Siegel M.D., Daniel

Meditation for Beginners

Step-By-Step Meditation for Beginners Course objectives:
Discuss the art of beginning meditation through the awareness of the breath, body, thoughts and feelings. • Practice presence and mindfulness through specific guided meditations. • Utilize the qualities of kindness, understanding, patience and love in meditation. • Analyze the process of opening to our difficulties as the path to freedom. • Explain the Four Noble Truths in relationship to guided meditation practices. Have you ever thought about trying meditation, but didn't know how to get started? On Meditation for Beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield uses clear language and step-by-step guidance to show us how to start―and stick with―a daily meditation practice. From the basics of how to get started to dealing with distractions, this complete course introduces us to the Insight tradition of meditation that has helped practitioners throughout the ages cultivate profound inner calm and a lasting capacity for happiness.
Available in three formats, Meditation for Beginners offers us a variety of entry points into this life-changing practice. In the DVD edition, we join Jack in a live 99-minute session that brings you the experience of a meditation retreat in your living room. With the integrated book and CD, Jack shares teachings based on the original video program plus six guided practices on audio. The two-CD audio program distills the information from the DVD and integrated book-and-CD course, providing four guided meditations for those ready to dive right in to practice. Topics covered in each program include:
How to use breathing, posture, and attention to enter the meditative state • Simple and effective strategies for dealing with "busy brain," and other common challenges in meditation • How meditation can help you deepen compassion, find healing through forgiveness, and dissolve your fear of death • Four cornerstone meditations for your practice―from resting in the moment to experiencing lovingkindness, and more With his gentle delivery and ability to translate ancient practices for modern audiences, Jack Kornfield has become one of the most accessible and sought-after teachers for helping first-time meditators get their start. Now you can begin to develop the foundational skills to start your practice immediately―and discover the life-changing power of meditation for yourself―with Meditation for Beginners.

Finding Guidance and Courage: A Light in Hard Times
We all face tough times. But how can we meet these difficult situations with a compassionate heart and a clear mind? "Inside each of us is an inner light that I call 'The One Who Knows,'" teaches Jack Kornfield. "Awakening to this wisdom can help us find our way through pain and suffering with grace, tenderness, and curiosity."
Guided Meditations for Difficult Times gives us eight new practices for reconnecting to our inner guide to skillfully navigate life's storms. With his warm teaching style and gift for storytelling, Jack Kornfield invites us to discover:
Equanimity and Peace-how to hold the sorrows and struggles of our world and our selves with balance, while seeing the great peace behind it all • Shared Compassion-a revolutionary practice for learning to experience painful situations with understanding and care • Forgiveness-for releasing the past and breaking down barriers to all that is closed in the heart • Setting Your Highest Intention-a powerful guide for navigating difficulty and awakening to the shining beauty and potential of the human spirit Our inner wisdom can light the way ahead so that we can take life in stride, teaches Kornfield. Guided Meditations for Difficult Times offers fresh insights and practices for being present, loving, and open in the midst of any life challenge.
Course objectives:
List some of the symptoms of conflict, struggle, and suffering. • Describe the higher life purpose of hardship. • Summarize benefits of releasing burdens through forgiveness. • Practice guided visualizations that promote healing. • Utilize meditation to gain peace and equanimity. • Apply practices that help you connect with your highest intentions.

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times: A Lamp in the Darkness

Delight in the Facets of Awakened Living through an Audio Retreat with Jack Kornfield
It is possible to find genuine happiness and liberation in the ups and downs of your own human life. We can all sense how it is possible for our own capacity for greater compassion and freedom to grow. "If this were not possible," said the Buddha, "I would not ask you to do so."
For four decades, Buddhist meditation teacher Jack Kornfield has shared practical instructions for awakening the wise and compassionate heart in the midst of all we experience. The Jewel of Liberation presents 10 pinnacle dharma talks (teaching sessions) hand-selected by Jack from his personal collection to illuminate the pathways out of suffering and into the natural freedom that is both our shared birthright and our greatest gift to the world.
Reclaim the Seat of Dignity, Compassion, and Lovingkindness
Meditation is the practice of awakening itself; it is the fundamental tool the Buddha offered to quiet the mind and open the heart. We begin our retreat with an examination of the art of meditation and how it empowers us to see things clearly and be gracious with the flow of this ever-changing life.
The Jewel of Liberation continues with guidance in managing our troubles, the "weeds" that arise even as we cultivate the seeds of abiding happiness. Our retreat culminates with an inquiry into the "laws of life," the understandings we must have if we are to experience freedom independent of our circumstances.
The Possibility of Freedom Here and Now
"The sure heart’s release is found nowhere else but in our own direct experience―for it is who and what we are," teaches Jack Kornfield. "The world so much needs people who are free in this way, unafraid to love every being." Here is his invitation for each of us to "be a lamp of freedom for yourself and for all."
Highlights
Wise understanding―the beginning of the Buddhist path • Meditation as the art of "taking your seat halfway between heaven and earth" • The transformation that occurs through the discovery of our true identity • Tending the garden of the heart • Compassion, the antidote to fear and despair • "The One Who Knows"―Ajahn Chah’s description of our innate wisdom and presence • "Enlightenments" and the infinite doorways to freedom • Seeing life the way it is with equanimity and trust • The three laws of impermanence and the secret treasures they hold • That which sustains lasting changes in our lives • A 10-hour audio retreat with Jack Kornfield including 10 pinnacle dharma talks Course objectives:
Describe wise understanding: the beginning of the Buddhist path. • Summarize the transformation that occurs through the discovery of our true identity. • Discuss compassion, the antidote to fear and despair. • Explain Ajahn Chah’s description of our innate wisdom and presence: "The One Who Knows." • Apply teachings of living with equanimity and trust. • Practice meditation to sustain lasting change in your life.

The Jewel of Liberation: Essential Teachings on the End of Suffering

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