“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and… — 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
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, “If you… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it’s really… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“This is like beginning to read a book. When we start, we will often be interrupted by many distractions around us. But… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Our difficulties require our most compassionate attention. Just as lead can be transformed into gold in alchemy, when we place our leaden… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties… — 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
There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can… — 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
