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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Mind
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Buddhist
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Religion
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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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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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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