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Jack Kornfield was American writer and buddhist teacher. Jack Kornfield is an American psychologist writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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