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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
Buddhist
Teaching
Religion
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Mind
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion you can weep.
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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
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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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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
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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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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
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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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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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