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 not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.
There is no higher happiness than peace.
Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.
If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.