Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. He is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness practice to the West, has taught internationally since 1974, and is the author of 16 books which have sold 2 million copies.

“Jack is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time.”

– Alice WaLker
Recently, I was speaking with someone who saw themselves as a leader. They were struggling with the expectations of all the people they were trying to serve. I asked them, “How about if you were to see yourself as a servant of love, or as a servant of joy?”
The world needs our deepest medicine now. So many people are exhausted and overwhelmed, frightened by war, loss, and uncertainty. We may wonder how to meet such immense suffering without being consumed by it—and how to keep faith when so much around us feels turbulent.
Here we are in the change of seasons—the great turning from the warmth and abundance of summer into autumn, when the natural world offers us its perennial reminder of impermanence and the wisdom of letting go.

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