Jack Kornfield Buddhist Quotations

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.