11-508: Kornfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jack Kornfield (born 1945), American author and Theravada Buddhist Julia A. Kornfield , American chemical engineer Tyler Kornfield (born 1991), American cross-country skier Victoria Kornfield , American schoolteacher and politician See also [ edit ] Kornfeld Cornfield (surname) Cornfeld [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
22-775: A monk under the forest master Ajahn Chah , and later practiced with Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma and Dipa Ma . Kornfield returned to the United States in 1972 and in the summer of 1974, participated in the founding session of Naropa University . From the associations of this period came the Insight Meditation Society co-founded in 1975 with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein in Barre, Massachusetts . In 1987 he co-founded Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has trained many of
33-607: Is a fraternal twin. His father was a scientist, which brought him to an interest in healing, medicine and science. He took a course in Asian philosophy with Dr. Wing-tsit Chan . Kornfield ended up majoring in Asian studies. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1967, Kornfield joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Thailand where he worked on tropical medicine teams in the Mekong River valley. There he met and became
44-508: Is also a renowned meditation teacher and the founding teacher of InsightLA, which combines training in Vipassana and non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). Kornfield has worked to make Buddhism accessible for Westerners. He has focused on combining loving kindness and self compassion with the practice of mindfulness, and incorporating together
55-696: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jack Kornfield Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is an American writer 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 mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded
66-539: Is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg , a contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (see publications below), a resident guiding teacher at IMS, and a leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness ( metta ) meditation. While the majority of Goldstein's publications introduce Westerners to primarily Theravada concepts, practices and values, his 2002 work, One Dharma , explored
77-530: 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 worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized teacher training, and led international gatherings of Buddhist teachers including the Dalai Lama. Kornfield is of Jewish descent and has three brothers. He
88-415: The surname Kornfield . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kornfield&oldid=1135848068 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
99-500: The Vipassana teachers in America, and hosted and led gatherings for Buddhist teachers together with the Dalai Lama and worldwide. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saybrook Institute . Kornfield has written extensively on the bridge between Eastern and Western psychology. His daughter Caroline is a graduate of Berkeley Law and practices Asylum Law. His ex-wife Liana is an artist and therapist. His wife Trudy Goodman
110-466: The creation of an integrated framework for the Theravada, Tibetan and Zen traditions. Goldstein had original experiences of realisation concerning the word 'unborn' and an experience of zero and of no self. He makes a 3-month meditation retreat most years. He says the peace and happiness we experience has to do with the quality of our minds, not our possessions. His book Mindfulness is based on
121-838: The wisdom of Eastern and Western psychology. In Jack Kornfield's book After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, he writes about the honest development of the wise heart within the cycles of day-to-day life; for instance "amid all the Western masters and teachers I know, some idealistic perfection is not apparent. Times of great wisdom, deep compassion, and a real knowing of freedom alternate with periods of fear, confusion, neurosis, and struggle. Most teachers will readily admit this." Kornfield lectures were featured by Joe Frank on his radio series "The Other Side." His books include: Joseph Goldstein (writer) Joseph Goldstein (born May 20, 1944)
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