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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I returned to America in 1972 as a Buddhist monk. I had been studying in Asia for five years, and when I returned, I wanted to see how it would be to live as a monk in America, even if for only a short while.
#2 I grew up in a scientific and intellectual household, but was still unhappy. I turned to the East to find happiness, and I began practice at a Thai forest monastery led by the young but later quite famous master Achaan Chah.
#3 I have had many spiritual experiences over the years, but my practice is not about ascending the chakras but descending them. I have found myself working my way down the chakras rather than up them.
#4 I had used my mind in meditation to suppress painful feelings, but I had little skills for dealing with my emotions or engaging on an emotional level. I had to shift my practice down the chakras from the mind to the heart. I began a long and difficult process of reclaiming my emotions, bringing awareness and understanding to my patterns of relationship, and learning how to feel my feelings.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	26 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669365440
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Jack Kornfield's A Path with Heart
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I returned to America in 1972 as a Buddhist monk. I had been studying in Asia for five years, and when I returned, I wanted to see how it would be to live as a monk in America, even if for only a short while.

#2

I grew up in a scientific and intellectual household, but was still unhappy. I turned to the East to find happiness, and I began practice at a Thai forest monastery led by the young but later quite famous master Achaan Chah.

#3

I have had many spiritual experiences over the years, but my practice is not about ascending the chakras but descending them. I have found myself working my way down the chakras rather than up them.

#4

I had used my mind in meditation to suppress painful feelings, but I had little skills for dealing with my emotions or engaging on an emotional level. I had to shift my practice down the chakras from the mind to the heart. I began a long and difficult process of reclaiming my emotions, bringing awareness and understanding to my patterns of relationship, and learning how to feel my feelings.

#5

As I have worked my way down the chakras, I have come to understand and appreciate the importance of every aspect of my life in my spiritual practice. Only then can spirituality be integrated into my life.

#6

The need to include spiritual life in treatment and therapy is beginning to be recognized by the mental health profession. However, the spirituality must be grounded in personal experience. For the reader who wants to learn firsthand, chapters throughout this book offer a series of traditional practices and contemporary meditations.

#7

The universal must be wedded to the personal to be fulfilled in our spiritual life. We are human beings, and the human gate to the sacred is our own body, heart, and mind, the history from which we’ve come, and the closest relationships and circumstances of our life.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When we ask ourselves if we are following a path with heart, we must examine the values we have chosen to live by. We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value.

#2

The astronauts who went into space realized the preciousness of all life. We must bring our full attention to life to see the preciousness of all things. As the qualities of presence and simplicity begin to permeate more and more of our life, our inner love for the earth and all beings begins to express itself.

#3

To live a path with heart, we must allow the flavor of goodness to permeate our life. When we bring full attention to our acts, when we express our love and see the preciousness of life, the quality of goodness in us grows.

#4

Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. We must learn to let go and allow the changing mystery of life to move through us without fearing it.

#5

When we are faced with a shock, we must connect with our path. We must ask ourselves what matters to us in the way we are living. We must reflect on our lives and ask ourselves if we are becoming more open, honest, and loving.

#6

A path with heart will include your unique gifts and creativity. The outward expression of your heart may be to write books, build buildings, or create ways for people to serve one another. The creations of your life must be grounded in your hearts.

#7

All other spiritual teachings are meaningless if we cannot love. We must ask ourselves whether we are living our path fully and without regret. If we can say yes to that, then we have lived our path with heart.

#8

The quality of loving-kindness is the fertile soil out of which an integrated spiritual life can grow. With a loving heart as the background, all that we attempt and all that we encounter will open and flow more easily.

#9

The loving-kindness meditation is to imagine yourself as a young and beloved child, or sense yourself as you are now, held in a heart of loving-kindness. You can then begin to include others in your meditation, and eventually the whole world.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

We as a society are constantly in combat to escape the fact that we are so limited by so many circumstances we cannot control. We spend a lot of energy denying our insecurity, pain, death, and loss, and we hide from the basic truths of the natural world and our own nature.

#2

We use denial to turn away from the pains and difficulties of life. We use addictions to support our denial. Our addictions numb us to our own experience, and in a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own existence.

#3

We cannot change ourselves easily through an act of will. We must learn to stop the war against ourselves. This is a first step, but we must practice it over and over until it becomes our way of life.

#4

To stop the war and come into the present, we must commit to an ongoing and unwavering commitment. As we follow a spiritual path, we are required to stop the war not just once but many times.

#5

We can allow the world to touch us deeply, and as we allow it to do so, we recognize that just as there is pain in our own lives, there is pain in everyone else’s life. We can accept life as a whole, and come to a sense of peace.

#6

We must all strive to be present, to stop the war in ourselves and around us. The deepest desire of our human heart is to discover how to do this. We all share a longing to go beyond our small story and our small self.

#7

Settle down and relax. Bring your attention into the present, and notice whatever sensations are present in your body. In particular, be aware of any tensions or pains you may have been fighting. Do not try to change them, simply notice them with an interested and kind attention.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

The path of awakening is a process that requires commitment and discipline. It involves selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

#2

There are many ways up the mountain, and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. We should not feel obligated to evaluate the practices chosen by others.

#3

The great traditions of practice are a means for awakening. We must make a choice and commit to it with our heart, then select a meditation or devotional practice and enter it fully. If we do a little of one kind of practice and a little of another, the work we have done in one often doesn’t continue to build as we change to the next.

#4

The Buddha’s teaching about his commitment in the face of his challenges is called The Lion’s Roar. It takes the courage of a lion or lioness to sit with the depth of our pain or fear.

#5

To take the one seat, we must have trust. We must learn to trust that what needs to open within us will do so in just the right fashion. We must simply stay planted and present.

#6

When we take the one seat, we discover our capacity to be unafraid and awake in the midst of all life. We may fear that our heart is not capable of weathering the storms of anger or grief or terror that have been stored up for so long. But to take the one seat is to discover that we are unshakable.

#7

We can’t avoid difficulties, but we can choose whether we will let them overcome us or use them as an opportunity to practice compassion. We can’t open our hearts to everything, but we can open our hearts to everything that is ours to open.