Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist teacher and author and a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, guides this Big Sky meditation, a practice for opening to a broad awareness as vast as the open sky. The mind is like space, boundless and open.
Big Sky Meditation
If you’ve been practicing mindfulness for some time, you may be ready to explore a more open kind of awareness. Perhaps you practice daily and want something different, or maybe you’d like a relaxing guided meditation for tuning in to the world around you.
The following mindfulness exercise features a guided meditation by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Meditation for Deeper Awareness
Jack Kornfield is an American author and teacher who trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers who introduced Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West.
Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. His teaching combines compassion, loving-kindness, and mindfulness training. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and weaves Buddhist psychology into the practice of forgiveness, compassion, and loving-kindness in everyday life.
Jack’s books have sold more than a million copies. Titles include A Path with Heart, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, and Meditation for Beginners.
In this mindfulness exercise, Jack guides a meditation on a broad, sky-like awareness.
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