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Jack Kornfield

(1945) Psychotherapist United States

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Jack Kornfield is a psychotherapist from the United States, best known for Jesus and Buddha.

Quick Facts About Jack Kornfield

Born: July 16, 1945
Nationality: United States
Profession: Psychotherapist
Notable works: Jesus and Buddha

About Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield is an American psychologist, writer, 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 mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized teacher training, and led international gatherings of Buddhist teachers including the Dalai Lama.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jack Kornfield · Page 4

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Body

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There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

Choose

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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Compassion

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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Difficult

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Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Attention

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“True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”

Love

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As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Born

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In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Aspect

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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or…

Agnostic

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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of…

Compassion

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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our…

Bigger

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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

Consciousness

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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows…

Beautiful

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The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Aim

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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin…

Assuming

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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to…

Body

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“Escape from delusion is not achieved through reflective, considerate, relaxed effort. It is achieved only through the most powerful and sustained thrust…

Escape Delusion

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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it…

Action

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One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is…

Essentials

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The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way…

Behavior

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“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It…

Art

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We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is…

Cases

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I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you…

Battle

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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as…

Affair

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The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

Alone in love

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We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

Breakfast

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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Judgmental

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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

Forgive

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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Life

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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

Practice

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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Balance

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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Awakening

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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Bases

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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

Holiness

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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Advantage

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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

Ends

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The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

Freedom

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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

Animal

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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

Acceptance

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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Compassion

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Jack Kornfield by topic

Heart (67) Life (63) Religion (42) Time (40) Spiritual (38) Compassion (38) Love (37) Meditation (36) Way (32) Practice (32) Suffering (28) Inspirational (28) World (27) Psychology (26) Buddhism (26) Mind (23) Peace (22) Moments (22) Letting go (22) Pain (21) Ifs (21) Understanding (20) Forgiveness (19) Needs (17) Fear (16)