Jon Kabat-Zinn

I was like depressed about the political situation to a great extent. And I was a first year graduate student in molecular biology at MIT. And I'm walking down the corridors at MIT, which are longer than any other building in the world, except maybe the Pentagon. And at that time, they weren't painted colorful, imaginative ways, but they were all like a junior high school in New York City.

And then I see this poster saying the three pillars of Zen, talk by Zen master Philip Kaplow at the invitation of Houston Smith, who was a professor of philosophy and religion at MIT. I didn't know who Kaplow was. I didn't know who Houston Smith was. And I certainly didn't know what Zen was. But I was in this kind of funk.

And then I see this poster saying the three pillars of Zen, talk by Zen master Philip Kaplow at the invitation of Houston Smith, who was a professor of philosophy and religion at MIT. I didn't know who Kaplow was. I didn't know who Houston Smith was. And I certainly didn't know what Zen was. But I was in this kind of funk.

And then I see this poster saying the three pillars of Zen, talk by Zen master Philip Kaplow at the invitation of Houston Smith, who was a professor of philosophy and religion at MIT. I didn't know who Kaplow was. I didn't know who Houston Smith was. And I certainly didn't know what Zen was. But I was in this kind of funk.

And so I went to the talk at 5 o'clock in the afternoon at seminar hour at MIT. And they had a fairly big room for the talk. And there were only five people in the room, the speaker, the guy who invited the speaker, and then maybe three people who went to the talk. And I was one of those three people. And I did say that it took the top off my head because it did. It's the first time.

And so I went to the talk at 5 o'clock in the afternoon at seminar hour at MIT. And they had a fairly big room for the talk. And there were only five people in the room, the speaker, the guy who invited the speaker, and then maybe three people who went to the talk. And I was one of those three people. And I did say that it took the top off my head because it did. It's the first time.

And so I went to the talk at 5 o'clock in the afternoon at seminar hour at MIT. And they had a fairly big room for the talk. And there were only five people in the room, the speaker, the guy who invited the speaker, and then maybe three people who went to the talk. And I was one of those three people. And I did say that it took the top off my head because it did. It's the first time.

that I had met anybody who seemed to really put together something that had been bothering me my whole life, which was how to bring different ways of knowing together. Because I grew up in a family where my father was a samurai scientist at Columbia University Medical Center. He was a razor sharp mind when it came to science, but really opaque when it came to art or anything else.

that I had met anybody who seemed to really put together something that had been bothering me my whole life, which was how to bring different ways of knowing together. Because I grew up in a family where my father was a samurai scientist at Columbia University Medical Center. He was a razor sharp mind when it came to science, but really opaque when it came to art or anything else.

that I had met anybody who seemed to really put together something that had been bothering me my whole life, which was how to bring different ways of knowing together. Because I grew up in a family where my father was a samurai scientist at Columbia University Medical Center. He was a razor sharp mind when it came to science, but really opaque when it came to art or anything else.

And my mother was a painter, a very unknown painter. She never showed her work until she was like 101 and then she had an exhibit. But she was very prolific, and really, I felt quite talented. It was beautiful to look at a lot of her stuff, and she never stopped in a lot of different mediums.

And my mother was a painter, a very unknown painter. She never showed her work until she was like 101 and then she had an exhibit. But she was very prolific, and really, I felt quite talented. It was beautiful to look at a lot of her stuff, and she never stopped in a lot of different mediums.

And my mother was a painter, a very unknown painter. She never showed her work until she was like 101 and then she had an exhibit. But she was very prolific, and really, I felt quite talented. It was beautiful to look at a lot of her stuff, and she never stopped in a lot of different mediums.

And I could see, as even a young child, that the world of science and the world of art were having a hard time understanding the depth of the other's vision of life. and place in the world. And so I guess there was this kind of familial kind of koan of these can't be that separate. They had different ways of knowing there has to be something to unify them.

And I could see, as even a young child, that the world of science and the world of art were having a hard time understanding the depth of the other's vision of life. and place in the world. And so I guess there was this kind of familial kind of koan of these can't be that separate. They had different ways of knowing there has to be something to unify them.

And I could see, as even a young child, that the world of science and the world of art were having a hard time understanding the depth of the other's vision of life. and place in the world. And so I guess there was this kind of familial kind of koan of these can't be that separate. They had different ways of knowing there has to be something to unify them.

And when I heard Kaplow talk, it was like an aha moment for me. And it was like, this is it. What unifies different ways of knowing is knowing itself, non-conceptual knowing, but pure awareness. And that's what Zen is all about and how to not

And when I heard Kaplow talk, it was like an aha moment for me. And it was like, this is it. What unifies different ways of knowing is knowing itself, non-conceptual knowing, but pure awareness. And that's what Zen is all about and how to not

And when I heard Kaplow talk, it was like an aha moment for me. And it was like, this is it. What unifies different ways of knowing is knowing itself, non-conceptual knowing, but pure awareness. And that's what Zen is all about and how to not

acquire it or achieve it or attain it but to realize it because it's not ever not here so i know i've used a couple of negative assertions in that sentence but that's part of the difficulty of talking about awareness or mindfulness is that it and now this is like not 1965 anymore but i'm talking in my present and the present day that awareness