Seeing suffering directly

Jack Kornfield, a teacher of Vipassana meditation, has been a student of Buddhism for fifteen years. His training includes six years in Southeast Asia, studying as a layman and as a monk in Theravada monasteries. His main teachers are Achaan Chaa and U Asabha Thera for the Mahasi Sayadaw. He has also studied with many other teachers, as well as with two Zen Masters. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Asian Studies and also holds a Masters and a Ph.D, degree in Western psychology. ' Currently he teaches with his colleague Joseph Goldstein at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and at intensive meditation retreats held throughout the United States and Canada. He is the author of "Living Buddhist Masters " (Prajna Press, Boulder, CO, 1983) which presents the variety of Buddhist teachings through the words of contemporary masters