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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.Jack Kornfield
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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.Jack Kornfield
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Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.Jack Kornfield
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Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.Jack Kornfield
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There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.Jack Kornfield
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.Jack Kornfield
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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.Jack Kornfield
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.Jack Kornfield
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Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.Jack Kornfield