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Author: Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, therapist, author and meditation instructor. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1967, he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to the Public Health Service in northeast Thailand, which is home to several of the world's oldest Buddhist forest monasteries. Here he met the Buddhist master Achaan Chah, who became Kornfield's teacher.
Since then he has studied Buddhism and meditation intensively, living as a monk in Thailand, Burma and India. Upon returning to the United States in 1972, Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society, He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and is the author of six books, including Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, Stories of the Spirit, and A Path with Heart.

(See also: The Roots of Buddhist Psychology / Meditations of the Heart / The Inner Art of Meditation)

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