Self-Forgiveness Meditation, by Jack Kornfield 

I burst into tears when it came to forgiving myself. The images of the past 2 or 3 years revolved around my mind every time when I was beating myself up for not doing enough or being good enough. That was so powerful and made me realize that the hardest thing for me has been to show kindness to myself. As if there is a self inside me that I have been calling names, bullying, and hurting for way too long. It gives me a new perspective at least.

Thank-you so much. U have helped me release years of burdens that have nearly killed me and have done significant damage but I am now at peace. Thank you brother for showing me a new way

I think of forgiveness as an oft unacknowledged 5th brahmavihara. Over the last few days I've been making a list of every gripe I can think of- every person who'd ever upset me, any time I've acted immaturely or embarrassingly (self forgiveness is the best antidote to cringe I think!), every time I have hurt myself in some form, and I'm going to meditate on them with forgiveness every day until each memory no longer has that powerful emotional charge.

How beautiful. Just before listening to this i read how Charlotte Joko Beck talks about how we are little whirlpools of worry and how we need to just relax and join the stream of life. It all seems very fitting. Bless us all.

I sometimes am reluctant to do this type of meditation because of the difficult emotions it brings up, but I always feel much better after

Jack you are my dearest teacher. I love you and appreciate your kind heart and wisdom so much. I pray that we meet someday.

"When the heart opens in loving-kindness... you fall asleep easily and wake in contentenment. Animals will sense your love and not harm you. And people will welcome you everywhere. If you lose things, they will be returned to you. If you fall a cliff, a tree will always be there to catch you. And the world will become more peaceful around you. And you will bring the blessings of a loving heart to all you touch."

This meditation helped me resolve a situation from my past.

This powerful meditation on forgiveness and loving kindness is highly recommended! 😍

on my path to abundance, i have learned that forgiveness leads the way to gratitude and gratitude for even the smallest things begins to open the door to love, light and happiness. thank you so very much for sharing with those of us who are learning! I love you dearly brother!

Just thank you, thank you thank you.... i need regularly to sit with this dearest Jack Kornfield and beloved Buddhist practices.

THE GREATEST TEACHER IN THE WEST, IN MY VIEW. THANK YOU JACK NOW AND FROM 60 YEARS AGO. YOU BLESS ALL OF US AND WE BLESS YOU.

A powerful meditation! I so appreciate Jack and his wonderful teaching! I listen to this meditation often!

I cried. I seen dark red energy. I cried like a baby... I let go! And yes no disbelief!!!

This was the beginning of my transformation in March 2020! Looking back, I feel like a new person. Thank you so much for this upload 💗

This opened my heart

Such a calming voice and a soothing meditation!!

Thankyou for the loving kindness

Jack Kornfield has such a soothing voice. Thank you, with much love❤️and appreciation 🙏.

Put me on the right track.. Thank you.

Loving kindness for what Rabbi Muscaria is teaching me *everything is God*

I feel the bad things we do, or have done, or the bad decisions we have taken, could not have been done differently by the person we were. Nobody takes a bad decision knowing the consequences will be very hard to live with. We do what we do mostly in self-defense and based on our own self-image. A thief is really saying to himself 'I steal because I am a thief'. An abuser is saying to himself 'I abuse because I am an abuser'. People with self-respect and self-love could not imagine stealing or abusing. It would be unimaginable to them. When we don't love ourselves, if we think of ourselves as a thief or an abuser, that is exactly how we will behave. Sadly, that cycle always starts when people are treated badly, or are shown a bad example, when they are very young. Through guilt we force ourselves to live and relive our past. Our past remains our present, and becomes our future. Self forgiveness is the only way of renewing our hearts and minds, giving us the self-respect that makes the idea of behaving badly unimaginable to us. And self- forgiveness is something that only we can give to ourselves. But once we have, we can respect and love the people around us, because our self-image of who we are, is changed. Once we respect ourselves, we are naturally respectful to the people around us. So the more we forgive ourselves, the better we become as people. How simple is that :-) So do something wonderful today and every day. Forgive yourself and become the wonderful person you are, that is, when you and only you realise it.

Wow thank you for posting this!

Simply beautiful, thank you.

Thank you very much, from deep in the heart. It has been a very relieving experience. I love you all.

Beautiful , thank you

Hello, actually today i recognized the power of meditation.Is called guided meditation by Jack. is another video,and thanks to him i am loosing my fear.And i understand that it was mostly that i got a pain from the past.Self-forgivness is a key i suppose. We will see. Practice everyday or you will lose the Buddha inside. with Metta David

Thank you...thank you.

I wept in the first phase. Beautiful

Nine people would rather hold onto the false energy of their pain. It happens. Let go. It will pass. Let go.

I really enjoyed this practice :) starting with forgiveness was really helpful to generating the metta and Im going to do that from now on. May you all be free from suffering :)

I love you jack

Amazing!!! Made my soul feel at such ease. I truly want to say thank you for this. I'm going through a rough time where I'm trying to forgive certain people in my life, but also myself, and I can't say I am completely there but this certainly was a great first step! I will continue to do this meditation everyday if I can :) thank you so much. Much love and light your way!

Thank you. I loved this meditation. So many healing tears flowing

thank you so much for sharing this.

What if all of us did this meditation every day?

Thank you so much. Jack in Japan.

Thank you so much

Thank you.

Love this, very healing, thank you 💞

And after 2 weeks my lost sock did return to me. Thanks, Jack.

Thank You, Hans

You are welcome, Borus Ross

Thanks, I needed that.

Thank you 😊💞💞

WOW!

Thank you so much 🙏🏻♥️

Nice, Thankyou!

Very calming 🤗

beautiful

May everyone listen to words such as these. Everyday. And think and feel this way - instead of using harmful horrible antidepressants. Bless everyone.

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Listening to this every day now it's so beautiful :) Is there some way I can get a download of this?? I don't want to lose it!

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I'm so sorry. I've never hurt anyone so badly before in my life, and I think about the pain I unknowingly caused you every single day. The fear, the body sensations, the thoughts. I tortured and self harmed thinking I had to inflict on myself what I gave you. Ending it with a rope held so much meaning. But I have to finally let go and move on. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I'm sorry. I forgive you. Thank you. I love you.

Hi John, Thank you for the insightful comments. Yes, I agree. When we pause and listen to our self-talk it can give us glimpse ’our self-image'. Also I have found that my over self-referencing also causes a lot of unnecessary self-suffering. Respectuflly, G Ross Clark www.mbsrtraining.com/

@SakuraDreamz check out this channel, it has a similar vibe to yours! Would love to hear you do guided meditations like this gorgeous video by Jack Kornfield

haha, the picture is of nessy.

Hyfr

Jack Kornfield could speak with a little more vitality in his voice. I know he is aiming for non-attachment, but attachment and vitality are two different things. Sounds a little too contrived or unnatural. Let's get some life back in there!