Jack Kornfield Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Men

• Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhism, Race, Suffering

• In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Buddhism, Compassion

• Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

  Jack Kornfield

  Limits, Belief, Stuck

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2015

• We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

  Jack Kornfield

  Smart, Ideas, Gone

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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