Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

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

Since I heard Greta Thunberg talk a lot about her illness, her being on the sort of autism spectrum was actually a superpower in a certain way. And you could see it when she gave a talk. It was selfless. There's nobody there. She's just speaking her truth in a way that there's no ego behind it. There's no selfing.

Since I heard Greta Thunberg talk a lot about her illness, her being on the sort of autism spectrum was actually a superpower in a certain way. And you could see it when she gave a talk. It was selfless. There's nobody there. She's just speaking her truth in a way that there's no ego behind it. There's no selfing.

Since I heard Greta Thunberg talk a lot about her illness, her being on the sort of autism spectrum was actually a superpower in a certain way. And you could see it when she gave a talk. It was selfless. There's nobody there. She's just speaking her truth in a way that there's no ego behind it. There's no selfing.

And it had enormous effect on me and many other people, including the Dalai Lama, who was then later in conversation with her. And I felt this is Mindfulness is that unifying factor that transcends opposites and that we already are born with it. Mindfulness, by the way, for everybody who's tuning in, in my vocabulary, mindfulness equals awareness, pure awareness.

And it had enormous effect on me and many other people, including the Dalai Lama, who was then later in conversation with her. And I felt this is Mindfulness is that unifying factor that transcends opposites and that we already are born with it. Mindfulness, by the way, for everybody who's tuning in, in my vocabulary, mindfulness equals awareness, pure awareness.

And it had enormous effect on me and many other people, including the Dalai Lama, who was then later in conversation with her. And I felt this is Mindfulness is that unifying factor that transcends opposites and that we already are born with it. Mindfulness, by the way, for everybody who's tuning in, in my vocabulary, mindfulness equals awareness, pure awareness.

So it's not like it's something you don't already know. And more than that, it's not something you have to acquire. Because the amazing thing that we never get any schooling in or pointed out is that we already have this superpower called awareness. And yet, when we go to school, all we're taught is how to think.

So it's not like it's something you don't already know. And more than that, it's not something you have to acquire. Because the amazing thing that we never get any schooling in or pointed out is that we already have this superpower called awareness. And yet, when we go to school, all we're taught is how to think.

So it's not like it's something you don't already know. And more than that, it's not something you have to acquire. Because the amazing thing that we never get any schooling in or pointed out is that we already have this superpower called awareness. And yet, when we go to school, all we're taught is how to think.

And thinking is a great superpower, and it's given rise to science and everything else. But actually, even a lot of the science comes out of the moments before the thinking sets in, where you have a nonverbal realization, an aha moment, where you see things that no one else has seen up to that point. Then you win the Nobel Prize, or everybody thinks, wow, what a great insight.

And thinking is a great superpower, and it's given rise to science and everything else. But actually, even a lot of the science comes out of the moments before the thinking sets in, where you have a nonverbal realization, an aha moment, where you see things that no one else has seen up to that point. Then you win the Nobel Prize, or everybody thinks, wow, what a great insight.

And thinking is a great superpower, and it's given rise to science and everything else. But actually, even a lot of the science comes out of the moments before the thinking sets in, where you have a nonverbal realization, an aha moment, where you see things that no one else has seen up to that point. Then you win the Nobel Prize, or everybody thinks, wow, what a great insight.

and sometimes mindfulness is even called insight meditation but it's not something you do it's something you learn to inhabit that's already yours and that's awareness so that's what meditation is all about is learning how to actually take up residency so to speak in the only moment any of us ever have which is now Everything else is either gone or yet to come.

and sometimes mindfulness is even called insight meditation but it's not something you do it's something you learn to inhabit that's already yours and that's awareness so that's what meditation is all about is learning how to actually take up residency so to speak in the only moment any of us ever have which is now Everything else is either gone or yet to come.

and sometimes mindfulness is even called insight meditation but it's not something you do it's something you learn to inhabit that's already yours and that's awareness so that's what meditation is all about is learning how to actually take up residency so to speak in the only moment any of us ever have which is now Everything else is either gone or yet to come.

And to learn how to live inside of awareness so that we're not captured and tortured to a large extent by our thoughts and emotions and our likes and dislikes and our reactions and our othering and the enemy and the friends and all of that kind of stuff, which has its own place, but without this kind of awareness,

And to learn how to live inside of awareness so that we're not captured and tortured to a large extent by our thoughts and emotions and our likes and dislikes and our reactions and our othering and the enemy and the friends and all of that kind of stuff, which has its own place, but without this kind of awareness,

And to learn how to live inside of awareness so that we're not captured and tortured to a large extent by our thoughts and emotions and our likes and dislikes and our reactions and our othering and the enemy and the friends and all of that kind of stuff, which has its own place, but without this kind of awareness,