Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

along with Emerson, who also lived in Concord. is just really profound. And I think in my book, Wherever You Go, There You Are, I featured a lot of quotes from Henry David Thoreau for just that reason, that it's evidence that this is not Asian or Oriental or Buddhist. It's a universal realization of the power of the present moment when you get out of your own way.

along with Emerson, who also lived in Concord. is just really profound. And I think in my book, Wherever You Go, There You Are, I featured a lot of quotes from Henry David Thoreau for just that reason, that it's evidence that this is not Asian or Oriental or Buddhist. It's a universal realization of the power of the present moment when you get out of your own way.

along with Emerson, who also lived in Concord. is just really profound. And I think in my book, Wherever You Go, There You Are, I featured a lot of quotes from Henry David Thoreau for just that reason, that it's evidence that this is not Asian or Oriental or Buddhist. It's a universal realization of the power of the present moment when you get out of your own way.

And he said things like, I sat in my doorway from morning to night and just watched the the sort of sun move across the sky, and this was better than any work I could ever have done. So he really understood meditative contemplation and what he called the foregoing of works.

And he said things like, I sat in my doorway from morning to night and just watched the the sort of sun move across the sky, and this was better than any work I could ever have done. So he really understood meditative contemplation and what he called the foregoing of works.

And he said things like, I sat in my doorway from morning to night and just watched the the sort of sun move across the sky, and this was better than any work I could ever have done. So he really understood meditative contemplation and what he called the foregoing of works.

In other words, not just busying yourself with doing, and even criticized the farmers of Concord, Massachusetts for living kind of lives of quiet desperation. And he was just an incredible visionary.

In other words, not just busying yourself with doing, and even criticized the farmers of Concord, Massachusetts for living kind of lives of quiet desperation. And he was just an incredible visionary.

In other words, not just busying yourself with doing, and even criticized the farmers of Concord, Massachusetts for living kind of lives of quiet desperation. And he was just an incredible visionary.

And I think that's a very, very, that whole transcendentalist movement in America was like really, both are looking backwards to ancient, very often Oriental wisdom, and are looking forward to a time where there's no East and West anymore. There's just one world. And we're waking up to the fact that

And I think that's a very, very, that whole transcendentalist movement in America was like really, both are looking backwards to ancient, very often Oriental wisdom, and are looking forward to a time where there's no East and West anymore. There's just one world. And we're waking up to the fact that

And I think that's a very, very, that whole transcendentalist movement in America was like really, both are looking backwards to ancient, very often Oriental wisdom, and are looking forward to a time where there's no East and West anymore. There's just one world. And we're waking up to the fact that

we better take care of it because we've been despoiling it in ways that we have been ignorant of because we're so industrious in the industrial revolution about pumping carbon and methane into the atmosphere and not caring the way we're seeing now emerge in the Trump administration, just not caring, drill, baby, drill.

we better take care of it because we've been despoiling it in ways that we have been ignorant of because we're so industrious in the industrial revolution about pumping carbon and methane into the atmosphere and not caring the way we're seeing now emerge in the Trump administration, just not caring, drill, baby, drill.

we better take care of it because we've been despoiling it in ways that we have been ignorant of because we're so industrious in the industrial revolution about pumping carbon and methane into the atmosphere and not caring the way we're seeing now emerge in the Trump administration, just not caring, drill, baby, drill.

Yeah, you can go that route, but the costs ultimately for the next generation and future generations are going to be even higher. So maybe we have to literally and metaphorically burn ourselves out because we invited that to happen in the United States, that mindset, but that's not going to be forever.

Yeah, you can go that route, but the costs ultimately for the next generation and future generations are going to be even higher. So maybe we have to literally and metaphorically burn ourselves out because we invited that to happen in the United States, that mindset, but that's not going to be forever.

Yeah, you can go that route, but the costs ultimately for the next generation and future generations are going to be even higher. So maybe we have to literally and metaphorically burn ourselves out because we invited that to happen in the United States, that mindset, but that's not going to be forever.

It can't be because the body politic basically won't allow it and the body of the planet will create conditions where we either wake up or we die. And I'm talking as a species. Now, the Earth and the universe won't care one tiny little bit if life itself was completely eradicated on planet Earth. But of course, life will be eradicated on planet Earth.