Quotes by Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate t — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to beco — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and th — Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation