After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Woodacre) · 2000
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Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield
1945 CE · Modern · Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts)
b. July 16, 1945 (living)
Jack Kornfield (b. 1945) is an American teacher who helped introduce Theravāda-derived insight (vipassanā) meditation to a wide Western audience. After training as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India—above all under the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah—he returned to the United States and in 1975 co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, and in 1987 co-founded Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. Trained also as a clinical psychologist, he is known for presenting mindfulness and loving-kindness practice in a secular-friendly idiom and for many widely read books. He remains an active teacher.
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DOCUMENTED: co-founded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in 1975 with Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg.
About Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts)
The Insight Meditation Society is a Theravāda-rooted retreat centre in Barre, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1975 by Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield and Jacqueline Schwartz, opening its retreat centre in 1976, and became a central institution in the transmission of vipassanā (insight) meditation to the West.
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A Path with Heart
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Woodacre) · 1993