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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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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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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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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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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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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within 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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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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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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