When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
