We all need healing. Sometimes we need healing for physical illness. At other times, we need to heal the traumas that we’ve suffered and the past difficulties we still carry in our bodies. We need release from the struggles and emotions brought about by our conflicts...

Andrea Miller: How can Western psychology and Buddhism work together to help people heal from trauma? Jack Kornfield: There’s a very simple word underlying this question, which is suffering. The deep medicine of the dharma acknowledges that there’s suffering, that it...