Quotes from Jack Kornfield

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

After the ecstasy comes the laundry.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Plant your seed of trust. It will grow in its season.

To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi understood this when he said: I have only three enemies. My favorite enemy, the one most easily influenced for the better, is the British Empire. My second enemy the Indian people, is far more difficult. But my most formidable opponent is a man named Mohandas K. Gandhi. With him I seem to have very little influence.

It is not enough to touch awakening. We must find ways to live its vision fully.

There is a vitality, a life force that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

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.

You may have heard of "out-of-the-body experiences," full of lights and visions. A true spiritual path demands something more challenging, what could be called an "in-the-body experience." We must connect to our body, to our feelings, to our life just now, if we are to awaken.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

Samadhi doesn't just come of itself; it takes practice.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes — most of which never happened. Mark Twain

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha's path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Just something else to let go of.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, and to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

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Es un hecho que no podríamos vivir sin las abejas y que nuestra vida depende también de los terremotos.

teaching that states of consciousness are far more crucial than outer circumstances.

Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques—he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.

Buddhist teachings put it this way: "Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so do all of the teachings of Buddha have but one taste, the taste of liberation.

Bring yourself back to the point quite gently. And even if you do nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back a thousand times, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...