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American writer and Buddhist teacher

Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is an American writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism.^[1] He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India,^[2] first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma.

He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently^{[clarification needed]} in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.

Kornfield has worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized teache