Jack Kornfield Quotes - Page 6

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• We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Order

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• It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

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  Past, Suffering, Would Be

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

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  Pain, Heart, Meditation

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

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  Heart, World, Helping

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• It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.

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  Song, Prayer, Pain

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• With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

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  Compassion, Suffering, Growing

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• There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

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  Cycle Of Life, Grace, Earth

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• One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

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  Letting Go, Wise, Pain

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• If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

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  Ocean, Heart, Lakes

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• The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

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  Death, Lying, Simple

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• 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.

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  Buddhism, Doubt, Suffering

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• The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

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  Hatred, Healed, Offers

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.11, Random House

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• Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

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  Perseverance, Play, Skills

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• There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

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  Heart, Meditation Practice, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “Meditation for Beginners: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

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  Pain, Meditation Practice, Feelings

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• Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

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  Keys, Mind, Events

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• Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

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  Memories, Writing, Sacrifice

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

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Doe

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• Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

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  Meditation, Levels, Impermanence

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

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  Yoga, Reflection, Practice

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• 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.

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  Heart, Simple, Compassion

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• According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

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  Buddhist, Pain, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.27, Random House

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

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  Moving, Fighting, Loss

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• 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.

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  Wise, New Experiences, Going Away

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.133, Random House

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• The quieting of our mind is a political act.

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  Political, Mind

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