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
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.
Every individual has a unique contribution.
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
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.
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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.
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.
...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.
No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.