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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
Science
Mind
Teachings
Buddhist
Teaching
Religion

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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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Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your 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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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
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