Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfieldis a bestselling American author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. He has taught meditation worldwide since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist Mindfulness practice to the West. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth16 July 1945
CountryUnited States of America
How well we have learned to let go
Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.
Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.