About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield is a bestselling American author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. He has taught meditation worldwide since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist Mindfulness practice to the West. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has organized teacher training and led international gatherings of Buddhist teachers including the Dalai Lama and has worked as a peacemaker and activist.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack KornfieldThe entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.
Jack KornfieldMeditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Jack KornfieldSkill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
Jack KornfieldThe first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
Jack Kornfield