The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
feelings. It’s worth noticing that in the Buddhist system, the mind is considered to be the sixth sense door, receiving thoughts and feelings and intuitions just the way the eye receives sights and the ear receives sounds.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
One day Ajahn Chah held up a beautiful Chinese teacup. “To me this cup is already broken. Because I know its fate, I can enjoy it fully here and now. And when it’s gone, it’s gone.” When we understand the truth of uncertainty and relax, we become free.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
Amazing - could be a follow up on fixing what is broken - and work on a metaphor around knots
The key to wise thought is to sense the energy state behind the thought.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
Just got a great example of wise thought: I got upset over food being served at the clinic. Panick and upset immediately came upon me. Now applying Jack’s method, I look at the energy behind the thoughts and see that fear and panic resulting in pain.I tried to be okay, not get annoyed with my surroundings, continue to do what I was doing (eating my broth) as softly and calmly as possible. Then I sat down, read a story from the book and it moved me to tears. I had a Judging thought: that would be the second time I cry today. And then my mind wandered around the thoughts of crying, pain, sadness at not being with my beloved Ganesh. Bad timing, love not being realized. That is a real reason to feel pain and suffer. I am apart from my beloved and it’s hard. But then also I am free, he is free, we can find solutions. And I hold him in my heart. Always. I feel settled, seeing the beauty of love getting over the earlier fear and panic. It’s going to be an interesting few days here...
“Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This
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After more than a century of looking for it, brain researchers have long since concluded that there is no conceivable place for a self to be located in the physical brain, and that it simply does not exist. —Time magazine, 2002
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
The quieting of our mind is a political act. The world does not need more oil or energy or food. It needs less greed, less hatred, less ignorance.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
Mindfulness and fearless presence bring true protection. When we meet the world with recognition, acceptance, investigation, and non-identification, we discover that wherever we are, freedom is possible, just as the rain falls on and nurtures all things equally.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
As the Dalai Lama suggests, he watched for the signals of tension and discomfort.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
A MEDITATION ON EQUANIMITY AND PEACE