Jack Kornfield Quotes

Jack Kornfield is 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 Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has organized teacher training and led international gatherings of Buddhist teachers including the Dalai Lama and has worked as a peacemaker and activist. ...more

If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

Topic(s): Ifs , Running , Fall

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Topic(s): Ifs , Doe , Motivational

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Topic(s): Doe , Values , Suffering

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Topic(s): Trying , Different , Persons

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

Topic(s): Way , Powerful , Balance

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Topic(s): Moments , Matter , Our Lives

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Topic(s): Use , Understanding , And Love

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Topic(s): Heart , May , Given

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Topic(s): Way , Indifference , Misguided

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

Topic(s): Life Is , Understanding , Errors

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

Topic(s): Way , Feels , Heart

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it’s not the end of the path.

Topic(s): Ends , Suffering , Path

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Jack Kornfield Quotes