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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.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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