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Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”. ― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life. tags: body, breathe, experience, fighting, heart, letting-be, letting-go, opening. 90 likes.
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This book is filled with invaluable wisdom from the teachings and stories of the world religions, the great mystics, poets, philosophers, and leaders of the past, and the personal narratives of people that Kornfield interviewed. Kornfield himself writes in a way that is informed by the wisdom of his own life experiences, training, and teaching.
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- “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” ― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life.
- “This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further. instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.”
- “As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense.
- “When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
- Health Scare
- Early Life
- Entering The Monastery in Thailand
- Returning to America
- Teaching at Naropa
- Founding Insight Meditation Society
- The Birth of Spirit Rock
- Empowering The Next Generation
For some of his friends in the room, one of the most gratifying things about tonight’s talk is that it’s happening at all. A year ago, Kornfield was giving a talk in Barre when he lost consciousness and dropped to the floor. When he woke up, he says, “a dozen doctors were peering down at me.” At a neurologist’s office a few days later, he and his d...
Growing up as the son of a gifted biophysicist and tinkerer who had a dark and disturbing side, Kornfield has been seeking solace in the cosmic perspective since he was very young. To the delight of Jack and his three brothers, their father Ted once rewired an old radar screen to build the first TV set in their neighborhood. But he was also prone t...
With the Vietnam War raging, Kornfield signed up for the Peace Corps, and asked to be shipped off to a Buddhist country. Sent to Thailand, he made his way to a remote and impoverished region of the jungle near the Laotian border, where he heard rumors of an American monk living in the ruins of a nearby temple. Kornfield persuaded one of his friends...
At first, when he came back to America in 1972, he tried to maintain the life of a Thai monk at his mother’s house in Washington, D.C. “I was eager to show my family and friends what I’d been doing all those years,” Kornfield says. “It wasn’t like now, when you can attach photos to email and tweet about your meditation. All my mom had seen was thes...
The stepping-stone to the next phase of his life turned out to be a place where he might never have found himself as a monk—a swanky Cambridge cocktail party. The host was psychologist David McClelland, who had helped both Tim Leary and Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass) get jobs at Harvard. Also on the guest list was Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche...
After their Naropa days, Kornfield, Goldstein, and Salzberg were in high demand as teachers. Couch-surfing from retreat to retreat, they eventually yearned to create their own home base for intensive practice. A nun attending one retreat mentioned that the Catholic church was selling off a former seminary in Massachusetts. With the help of a loan o...
In time, however, even spiritual friends can drift apart for a while. Goldstein and Salzberg undertook grueling retreats with Mahasi Sayadaw’s stern successor, U Pandita, who taught that Vipassana was “a war between healthy and unhealthy mental states.” While Kornfield had deep respect for U Pandita, he felt that his influence at IMS was a mixed bl...
Beneath the tranquil surface, however, new developments are afoot. Last year’s health scare impressed upon Kornfield that he can no longer depend on having a larger-than-life ability to get things done. “I used to have an insane amount of energy. Now I have only a normal amount,” he says almost apologetically. For two decades, he’s been hosting glo...
Aug 4, 2017 · The book has a wide scope — everything from parenting to drugs to the nature of enlightenment. “All aspects of your life are your field of practice,” Kornfield says in the introduction. “This very life, your work, your family, your community is the only place for awakening.”.
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Jun 1, 1993 · Through generous storytelling and unmitigated warmth, Kornfield offers this excellent guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation, and full-tilt compassion. Part of what makes this book so accessible is Kornfield's use of everyday metaphors to describe the elusive lessons of spiritual transformation.
