Jack Kornfield

10 Ways Meditation Can Change Your Life

MeiMei Fox | Posted 05.05.2012

I'm just an ordinary person who couldn't sit still for an hour when she first signed up for a Vipassana retreat yet has benefitted tremendously from the simple and challenging practice.

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HuffPost Religion Round-Up: September 18-24

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Karl Giberson, Owen Flanagan, Jack Kornfield, God and Economy, Troy Davis, Rev. Jc Austin, Spirituality and Science, Zesho Susan O'Connell, Dimitri Hamlin, Buddhists, Greg Carey, Lawrence Brewer, Death Penalty, Pro-Life, The Bible and Money, Religion News

Science and religion, Bourgeois Buddhists, Unemployment and God, Troy Davis, and asking Is That All there Is?.. It has been a busy week on HuffPost Religion.

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Jack Kornfield: 'A Lamp In the Darkness' (EXCERPT)

Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, A Lamp in the Darkness, Video, Buddha, Religious-Books, Buddhist Meditation, Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, Joy, Religion News

Editors Note: Jack Kornfield is a Buddhist teacher and has been a practitioner for over 40 years. The following is an excerpt from his book 'A Lamp In...

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Dalai Lama Hosts Massive Peace Festival In Washington, D.C.

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Dalai Lama Birthday, Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama Tibet, Buddhist, Kalachakra, World Peace, Brad Warner, Dalai Lama China, Tibet, Buddhism, Peace, Religion News

As the Dalai Lama celebrated his 76th birthday Wednesday, he didn't do it from his home in the Himalayan hills. Instead, there was an elaborate parade...

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What Is The Future Buddhism In America?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Garrison Institute, Dalai Lama, Faith Shift, Vipasanna, Tibetan Buddhism, Mindfulness, Zen Buddhism, Meditation, Pure Land, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Mindfulness Meditation, Buddhism, Gelek Rimpoche, Religion News

GARRISON, N.Y. -- Backed by the nation’s largest Buddhist magazines and meditation centers, a recent invite-only gathering at an old monastery in th...

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A 500-Year Plan For Humanity's Mental Health

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Elisha Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Jack Kornfield, Altruism, Healthy Living News

Altruistic acts need to be introduced into our mental health plans. If you choose some way to help future generations and you're involved on an ongoing basis, you will absolutely benefit psychologically.

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The Buddha's Teachings About The Soul

Lewis Richmond | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Forrest Gump, Jack Kornfield, Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta, Skandha, Walpola Rahula, Blue Cliff Record, Middle Way, Atman, Robert Allen Mitchell, Buddhism, Buddhist Reincarntion, Buddhist Teachings, Zen Buddhism, Buddhist View of the Soul, Religion News

The whole truth is not so simple. At the heart of the Buddha's teaching is something not graspable by intellect alone, not expressible in words alone, not comprehensible by logic alone.

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A Mindful Response to Egypt: Save the Children

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Save the Children, Egypt, Mindfulness, Jack Kornfield, Haiti, Egypt Protests, Impact News

Now more than ever, the children of Egypt are in the midst of violent clashes putting them at risk for death, injury or psychological trauma. The children still need our help!

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Meditation or Medication? Or Both?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Vipassana, Percocet, Zoloft, Ambien, Addiction, Brooke SHields, Clancy Martin, Anti-Depressants, Tylenol, Harper's, Trudy Goodman, Meditation, Tom Cruise, Buddhism, Alcoholics Anonymous, Medication, Sylvia Boorstein, Healthy Living News

A decade ago, having recently begun Buddhist meditation practice, I attended a lecture/Q&A with a Tibetan master at a Buddhist center in Hollywood. Th...

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My Mind Has A Mind Of Its Own

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Pollan, Rahm Emanuel, Afghanistan, Beethoven, Sarah Palin, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Timothy Geithner, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Lawrence Summers, Pema Chodron, Republicans, Robert Reich, Healthy Living News

We hear President Obama recently went on a two-week meditation retreat that wasn't made public. A source close to the President's mind confided some o...

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Blending Buddhism And Psychotherapy At Omega NYC 2010

Huffington Post | Clay Chiles | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Vipassana, Omega NYC, Buddhist Psychology, Tara Brach Meditation, Omega Institute, Mark Epstein, Tara Brach, Buddhism, The Inner Life, Omega NYC 2010, Black History Month, Healthy Living News

Integrating Buddhist practices with western psychology is vital, Jack Kornfield says, because the latter is traditionally pathology-oriented whereas Buddhism offers a positive, wellness-oriented science of the mind.

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An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 10: The Kabbalah of Inspiration

Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jay Michaelson, Thomas Edison, Kabbalah, The Balanced Life, Zalman Schachter, Judaism, Kaballah, Kabalah, Religion News

Kabbalah is largely about balance: love and boundary, mercy and judgment, upper and lower, symbolic and literal, physical and spiritual. Balance, and how things go out of balance.

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The Gospel According to Brit Hume

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron, Gateway Pundit, Christianity, Buddhism, The Buddha, Brit Hume, Salon, Media News

Brit Hume, while I wouldn't presume to advise you to take up Buddhism, maybe you could try reading some Buddhist authors like Jack Kornfield or Pema Chodron to supplement your scripture.

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What Palin, Shatner, And Miss Jasmine Have To Teach Us This Season

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jack Kornfield, Ed and Deb Shapiro, Job, Pema Chodron, William Shatner, Author, Featured Contributor, Tiger Woods, Be the Change, 4 Fail-Proof Measures to Restore Your Spirit, Jungian Analyst, 21 Day Challenge, Sarah Palin, Osiris, The Inner Life, Video, Healthy Living News

New Forms, Old Process. Despite the news avalanche surrounding Tiger Woods, he's not the only one standing on shaky ground. It is, however, the unexpected places that lead us to the real.

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The Four Noble Truths

Noah Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

The Buddha taught that life by its very nature is unsatisfactory, that some level of difficulty exists for all unenlightened beings in creation.

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The Four Noble Truths of the Revolutionary Path to Freedom

Noah Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

The first teachings the Buddha gave after his enlightenment were the four noble truths. This giving of the truths is often referred to as the setting in motion of the wheel of Dharma.

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Finding a Path that Fits...and Flows

Kay Goldstein | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress Management, Finding a Teacher, Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hahn, Meditation, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Jack Kornfield, Healthy Living News

At this time in our world, we have infinite choices and opportunities to learn. Indeed, many things can become our "religion" - our work, our food habits, even our Pilates class.

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