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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
Teachings

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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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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.
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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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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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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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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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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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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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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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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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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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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