1. Jack Kornfield was born on 1945 and is an American writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism.
10 Facts About Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield 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.
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Jack Kornfield's father was a scientist, which brought him to an interest in healing, medicine and science.
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Jack Kornfield took a course in Asian philosophy with Dr Wing-tsit Chan.
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Jack Kornfield returned to the United States in 1972 and in the summer of 1974, participated in the founding session of Naropa University.
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Jack Kornfield has trained many of the Vipassana teachers in America, and hosted and led gatherings for Buddhist teachers together with the Dalai Lama and worldwide.
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Jack Kornfield has written extensively on the bridge between Eastern and Western psychology.
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Jack Kornfield's daughter Caroline is a graduate of Berkeley Law and practices Asylum Law.
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Jack Kornfield's wife Trudy Goodman is 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 and Mindful Self-Compassion.
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Jack Kornfield has focused on combining loving kindness and self compassion with the practice of mindfulness, and incorporating together the wisdom of Eastern and Western psychology.