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Jack Kornfield



Jack Kornfield, PhD, is an American vipassana Buddhist teacher, activist, and bestselling author focusing on making Buddhism accessible to a Western audience. He has written numerous books and led international trainings on the subjects of meditation and mindfulness, and he is a cofounder of Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

Jack Kornfield
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Wisdom Teaching: Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
2013
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Doing the Buddha’s Practice

Mindfulness/awareness was the meditation the Buddha practiced and taught—it was his basic prescription for human suffering. Looking at life with an open and nonjudgmental attention, we see our confusion and develop insight. This is the basis of all Buddhist practice and the key to liberation.

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Jack Kornfield
2007
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The Spiritual Challenges and Opportunities of Our Time | Byron Katie, Jack Kornfield, Soren G.

Byron and Jack talk about wise ways to respond to the often distressing world we live in.

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Byron Katie
2020
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Why Mindfulness? - Jack Kornfield

With mindfulness we learn to be aware without judging, fixing, resisting or grasping. This is not a self-improvement project but rather the opportunity to become the loving witness to this life, which changes everything because usually we're trying to "fix" it.

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Jack Kornfield
2018
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Jack Kornfield: The Peaceful Heart Dharma Talk

In this dharma talk, Jack discusses how the combination of compassion and equanimity gives rise to a peaceful heart.

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Jack Kornfield
2020
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Jack Kornfield - Meditation for Beginners

A video excerpt from Jack Kornfield’s video practice, Meditation for Beginners.

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Jack Kornfield
2012
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Right Effort Dharma Talk — Jack Kornfield

What is right effort? Simply the effort to be mindful, to notice what is happening in the present moment without judging it. In Zen it is called effortless effort. Effortless effort is not an effort to gain or attain anything, but simply the discipline and effort to stay aware in the present.

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Jack Kornfield
2020
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

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Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield (foreword)
2004
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Your Deepest Fulfillment Is Connected with the Well-Being of Others

Bodhisattva is radical because it states that the deep fulfillment of happiness comes from serving the welfare of others as well as ourself. Our highest happiness is connected with the well-being of others.

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Jack Kornfield
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Cultivating Grace and Transforming Suffering with Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Krishna Das & Friends

How do we transform suffering into grace? How do we cultivate a process that allows grace to fill our lives? How do we turn anger into compassion – chaos into equanimity – separation into unity and oneness? In the third installation of our Cultivating film series, Cultivating Grace and...

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Jack Kornfield
2014
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