Jon Kabat-Zinn

There can't be any wisdom, there can't be any compassion, and there can't be any clarity around how to thread the needle of human beings not just killing each other forever, each generation of which does it with more and more horrifyingly sophisticated weapons, which now include like toy drones that you can put a grenade or a missile launcher on and then kill all sorts of people with these like digital devices that cost like $50 in the store.

There can't be any wisdom, there can't be any compassion, and there can't be any clarity around how to thread the needle of human beings not just killing each other forever, each generation of which does it with more and more horrifyingly sophisticated weapons, which now include like toy drones that you can put a grenade or a missile launcher on and then kill all sorts of people with these like digital devices that cost like $50 in the store.

There can't be any wisdom, there can't be any compassion, and there can't be any clarity around how to thread the needle of human beings not just killing each other forever, each generation of which does it with more and more horrifyingly sophisticated weapons, which now include like toy drones that you can put a grenade or a missile launcher on and then kill all sorts of people with these like digital devices that cost like $50 in the store.

And I've said an awful lot up to this point, but that gives you, in some sense, the arc of the sweep of like from when I was 21 years old and a student at MIT and where this showed me, in a way, a new hidden dimension of what it means to be human. What I called when I was at MIT, because we like fancy words, an orthogonal dimension of reality. It's here all the time, only until you

And I've said an awful lot up to this point, but that gives you, in some sense, the arc of the sweep of like from when I was 21 years old and a student at MIT and where this showed me, in a way, a new hidden dimension of what it means to be human. What I called when I was at MIT, because we like fancy words, an orthogonal dimension of reality. It's here all the time, only until you

And I've said an awful lot up to this point, but that gives you, in some sense, the arc of the sweep of like from when I was 21 years old and a student at MIT and where this showed me, in a way, a new hidden dimension of what it means to be human. What I called when I was at MIT, because we like fancy words, an orthogonal dimension of reality. It's here all the time, only until you

Learn how to recognize it. You just don't even know it's there. And it can help enormously with how much you drive yourself crazy, how much you suffer, how angry you get, how lonely you get, how depressed you get. And you already have the solution in a certain way. And that is, as the Buddhists speak about it, because...

Learn how to recognize it. You just don't even know it's there. And it can help enormously with how much you drive yourself crazy, how much you suffer, how angry you get, how lonely you get, how depressed you get. And you already have the solution in a certain way. And that is, as the Buddhists speak about it, because...

Learn how to recognize it. You just don't even know it's there. And it can help enormously with how much you drive yourself crazy, how much you suffer, how angry you get, how lonely you get, how depressed you get. And you already have the solution in a certain way. And that is, as the Buddhists speak about it, because...

The Buddha gave historically the most articulate teachings around mindfulness and the most thorough and profound that you're already okay. And there's no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain. Meditation is not about attaining some special fantastic meditative state where all of a sudden you're you and everything is good forever. It's just not like that.

The Buddha gave historically the most articulate teachings around mindfulness and the most thorough and profound that you're already okay. And there's no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain. Meditation is not about attaining some special fantastic meditative state where all of a sudden you're you and everything is good forever. It's just not like that.

The Buddha gave historically the most articulate teachings around mindfulness and the most thorough and profound that you're already okay. And there's no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain. Meditation is not about attaining some special fantastic meditative state where all of a sudden you're you and everything is good forever. It's just not like that.

It's like discovering an old friend, which is awareness. And it's never not been here for you, but you have to learn to. Let that become your default address, so to speak. I live here in awareness rather than I live in stress reactivity and anger and fear my whole life. And that's a choice every single one of us can make. And it's not that hard.

It's like discovering an old friend, which is awareness. And it's never not been here for you, but you have to learn to. Let that become your default address, so to speak. I live here in awareness rather than I live in stress reactivity and anger and fear my whole life. And that's a choice every single one of us can make. And it's not that hard.

It's like discovering an old friend, which is awareness. And it's never not been here for you, but you have to learn to. Let that become your default address, so to speak. I live here in awareness rather than I live in stress reactivity and anger and fear my whole life. And that's a choice every single one of us can make. And it's not that hard.

Totally. He was living in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1830s. And the railroad was the biggest technological innovation, which of course brought on the entire industrial revolution. When the steam engine was invented, that's when we started global warming and burning fossil fuels. And it's been nonstop since then, and not just nonstop, but exponential, which is the problem with

Totally. He was living in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1830s. And the railroad was the biggest technological innovation, which of course brought on the entire industrial revolution. When the steam engine was invented, that's when we started global warming and burning fossil fuels. And it's been nonstop since then, and not just nonstop, but exponential, which is the problem with

Totally. He was living in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1830s. And the railroad was the biggest technological innovation, which of course brought on the entire industrial revolution. When the steam engine was invented, that's when we started global warming and burning fossil fuels. And it's been nonstop since then, and not just nonstop, but exponential, which is the problem with

that we're facing now in terms of planetary endangerment on a lot of different levels. Thoreau, it's said that one day he just stood in Walden Pond up to about his nose and just observed everything that was going on the surface of the pond. I used to swim in Walden Pond all the time when I lived in Lexington, Massachusetts. My wife and I would go there all the time. And his presence and his legacy

that we're facing now in terms of planetary endangerment on a lot of different levels. Thoreau, it's said that one day he just stood in Walden Pond up to about his nose and just observed everything that was going on the surface of the pond. I used to swim in Walden Pond all the time when I lived in Lexington, Massachusetts. My wife and I would go there all the time. And his presence and his legacy