Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, including as a student of the master Ajahn Chah while he was in the Peace Corps in Thailand. Upon returning to the United States in 1972, Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein. He is also a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, arising as a formal organization from a sitting group formed in the 70's. Jack Kornfield currently lives and teaches at Spirit Rock. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saybrook Institute.

The title of today’s talk is “Radical Buddhist Therapy,” where Kornfield describes how Buddhism and mindfulness meditation relate to mental health. This lecture was delivered in 1979 at the ATP Conference, at a time when, on the East Coast, Jon Kabat-Zinn was also beginning to teach mindfulness-based stress reduction.

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