[Thespiritexpress] Community from Jack Kornfield

[Roz]

So true , meaningful and perfect !
Thank you, Toni
🩷🙏🏼Roz
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> On Mar 25, 2026, at 1:37 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> When I lived in Woodacre I attended Spirit Rock meditation center frequently to meditate and listen to Jack share his amazing stories, guidance and beautiful wisdom.
> On occasion, I would run into him at the post office, and he would greet me like a friend…….such a blessing…….
> 
> I thought this was particularly synchronistic, arriving in my in-box today since our discussion at “Sutras” on Tuesday included an unpacking of what is pain?  What is growth?
> Does the caterpillar suffer in its process to became a butterfly?  And how do we hold the “suffering” together as we grow and transform?
> 
> With love and gratitude for our sweet community, 
> T
> 
>> Dear friends, 
>> 
>> A teacher once said, “If you think you can wake up without breaking open, you’re mistaken.”
>>  
>> Growth is not polite.
>> Truth is not always gentle.
>> And transformation often hurts.
>>  
>> But it hurts like birth hurts.
>> Like muscles growing hurt.
>> Like a heart opening wider than it ever has before.
>>  
>> We don’t heal alone.
>>  
>> Even when we think we must.
>>  
>> Almost every great turning in your life involved another human being—someone who listened, someone who stayed, someone who did not turn away when you were afraid.
>>  
>> We are not meant to carry everything by ourselves.
>> We are meant to carry one another.
>>  
>> It doesn’t mean we fix each other.
>> It means we refuse to abandon one another.
>>  
>> When you walk through grief and someone sits beside you, you are changed.
>> When you face uncertainty and someone lights a candle, you are changed.
>>  
>> This is what community means:
>> Not agreement.
>> Not sameness.
>> But shared courage.
>>  
>> We are not as strong alone as we are together.
>>  
>> That is not sentimental.
>> That is survival.
>> That is love.
>> 
>> With metta,
>> Jack
>>  
>> 
> 
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