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
It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance....
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today,
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.