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What we seek is what we are.

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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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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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation it is impossible for the heart to open.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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