Jack Kornfield - Meditation Quotes

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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.

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

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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

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The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

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To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

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Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

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There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

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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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When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

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If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

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In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

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