Week 35 · modern

Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield was a Peace Corps volunteer in Southeast Asia who ended up training as a Buddhist monk in the forests of Thailand. He came back to America, got a PhD in clinical psychology, and co-founded the Insight Meditation Society. He realized something most Eastern teachers didn't address. You can have profound meditation experiences and still be a mess in your relationships. So he built a practice that connects the cushion to the kitchen table.

“"In the end, just three things matter...how fully you have lived, how deeply you have loved, and how well you have learned to let go." He wrote that after decades of watching people on retreats, in therapy, and in crisis.”