Jack Kornfield, Seeking The Heart Of Wisdom: The Path Of Insight Meditation Quotes

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.