Jack Kornfield - Mind Quotes

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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

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We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

Jack Kornfield
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, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

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

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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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One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

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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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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

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