Jack Kornfield Quotes - Page 10

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• Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

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  Games, Play, Courses

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• To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

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  Prayer, Commitment, Practice

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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

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  Practice

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.

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  War, Mind, Way

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• The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

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  Compassion, Light, Speak

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• It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

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  Buddhist

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• When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

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  Heart, Loss, Attachment

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• We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

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  Pain, Heart, Warrior

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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.

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  Heart, Practice, Mountain

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Waiting

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• In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

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  Crystals, Consciousness, Facets

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• As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

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  Heart, Compassion, Bows

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2015

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• We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

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  Confused, Reality, Light

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• Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

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  Buddhist, Firsts, Therapists

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• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

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  Buddhist, Lying, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

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• Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

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  Self, Ideas, Ego

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• There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

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  Fall, Web Of Life, Born

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• Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

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  Party, Heart, Gossip

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.

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  Practice, Samadhi

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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

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  Skills, Meditation, Mind

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

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  Compassion, Weakness, Quiet

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• We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

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  Art, Buddhism, Suffering

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• Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

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  Heart, Generosity, Care

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

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  Running, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Sadness, Buddhism

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