Jack Kornfield

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"To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one."

"When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present -- our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love -- everything that moves us most deeply."

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Jack Kornfield
School Theravada
Personal
Born (1945-07-16) 16 July 1945 (age 66)
United States
Senior posting
Title Vipassana instructor
Religious career
Website http://spiritrock.org/

Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is a teacher in the vipassana movement of American Theravada Buddhism.[1] He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, including as a student of the Thai monk Ajahn Chah. He has taught meditation worldwide since around 1974.

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Biography

After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1967, Kornfield joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to the Public Health Service in northeast Thailand, where there are several Buddhist forest monasteries. Here he met Ajahn Chah, who became his teacher. Upon returning to the United States in 1972, Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein.

Kornfield holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saybrook Institute.[2] He is also a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California, where he currently lives.

Teachings

Kornfield's work has focused on integrating Eastern spiritual teachings in an accessible way for Western students.[3]

Books published

His books include

Kornfield lectures were featured by Joe Frank on his radio series "The Other Side."

References

  1. ^ Elliott, William (1 March 1996). Tying rocks to clouds: meetings and conversations with wise and spiritual people. Image Books. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-385-48191-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=qmjXAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 6 June 2011. "So before my interview with Jack Kornfield, who is a well-known Vipassana meditation teacher, I was concerned about not" 
  2. ^ Palmer, Helen (28 December 1998). Inner knowing: consciousness, creativity, insight, and intuition. J.P. Tarcher/Putnam. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-87477-936-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=I4rWAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 6 June 2011. "Regardless of its level of complexity, every practice relies on steadiness of concentration. Jack Kornfield, psychologist and meditation teacher, describes the practice thatforms a cornerstone of ..." 
  3. ^ Grof, Stanislav (June 2006). When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality. Sounds True. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-59179-420-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=QQ6iFjoBDkEC&pg=PA235. Retrieved 6 June 2011. "Coleader of the workshop was Jack Kornfield, dear friend, psychologist, Vipassana teacher, and Buddhist monk, who taught participants the principles of insight meditation, gave lectures on Buddhism, offered personal darshans, ..." 

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