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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD – Mindfulness for Beginners (Audio)
With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.
Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding “lesson-a-day” primer on mindfulness practice. The paperback release also Includes a complete CD with five guided mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat-Zinn, selected from the audio program that inspired this book.
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About Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is the founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and associate professor of medicine in the Division of Preventative and Behavioral Medicine. His clinic was featured in 1993 in the public television series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full-Catastrophe Living: Using Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness.
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sounds true presents mindfulness for beginners with the founder of the stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center John Kett Zin [Music] welcome to this program that's called mindfulness for beginners I'm delighted to be working with you in this way and I do so in the hope that whatever it was that Drew you to the Allure of mindfulness that that very impulse can be explored and nurtured so that it will grow and develop because no one comes to a program such as this by accident there has to be some underlying impulse that Longs for a certain knowing or way of being that may feel elusive but is also sensed as highly desirable otherwise you wouldn't even bother to pick up a program such as this also each one of us brings our own genius to such adventures and we always build on what's come before in our lives even if much of it was and perhaps still is painful our entire past whatever it's been when it comes right down to it becomes the very platform for doing the work of being in the present moment and it becomes both the work and the adventure of a lifetime not to be trapped in either our past or our ideas but rather to reclaim the only moment that we ever really have and that is always this one and taking care of this one can have a remarkable effect on the next moment and so on the future in this session we'll be having a conversation of sorts although with such a format I'm going to be the one that winds up doing all the talking but we will be exploring the whole subject of mindfulness together as if you'd never heard about it and had no idea what it was or what meditation is and why it might be worth cultivating we'll cover what it is how to cultivate it in your life what its various benefits might be in terms of stress and pain health and illness of course we can only touch on these topics in this format and all my comments are only to enhance your motivation to make use of the other session which guides you in the actual practicing of mindfulness and to have some kind of framework for understanding why it makes sense to do something which seems as strange and alien as nothing on a regular basis on a systematic basis in a disciplined way to cultivate your own mind and your what I would call your deep inner resources for learning for growing for healing and potentially for transformation of your understanding of who you are and how to live in this world if you want to go deeper there are no end of resources mindfulness as a subject is an entire universe it has many many facets and galaxies it's infinitely deep and wonderful and there are fortunately many many superb teachers past and present going all the way back to the Buddha himself and even before the Buddha whose writings and whose books and for the living ones whose Retreats can be invaluable to connect with over the course of this lifetime your lifetime much of what I will be saying is mapped out in my various books and in particular in full catastrophe living and in coming to our senses so let's begin at the beginning what what is mindfulness my working definition of mindfulness is that it's paying attention on purpose in the present moment as if your life depended on it non-judgmentally actually mindfulness is what comes out of paying attention on purpose in the present moment non-judgmentally and as if your life depended on it and that is nothing else than awareness now awareness is something that we're all intimately familiar with and yet complete strangers too so the training and mindfulness that we'll be exploring together is really the cultivation of a resource that's already yours it doesn't require going anywhere it doesn't require getting anything but it does require in some way learning how to inhabit another domain of mind that we are as a rule Fair out of touch with even though of course if we didn't have it we'd already be dead mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist Meditation but really mindfulness is universal because it's about attention and awareness as I've just said and attention and awareness of capacities that are shared by all of us nevertheless it is fair to say that the most refined and developed articulations of mindful throughout history and how to cultivate it come from the Buddhist tradition but I think by the same token it's important to keep in mind that the Buddha himself was not a Buddhist and even the term Buddhism wasn't established until the 18th century and that term was coined by European religious Scholars who had very little understanding of what the statues on the altars of temples were of some guy sitting cross-legged what they were really about what the those statues and other Buddhist art objects are all about is actually the mind and states of mind and the Buddha represents a state of mind that can simply be called and he did speak about it in this way awake so the Buddha had some profound insights into the nature of the human mind that appli to any human mind not just Buddhists or people practicing Buddhist Meditation for that matter otherwise really it would be of no value I like to think of the Buddha as a a scientist a genius of a scientist really who had no instruments at his disposal other than his own body and his own mind and he used them to Great advantage to explore the Deep questions that he was interested in like what is the nature of the mind and what is the nature of suffering and of course as with any instrument whether it's a radio telescope or a spectrometer or a scale you have to actually calibrate it first and stabilize the platform on which it sits so that you can get reliable readings and part of the meditation practice that the Buddha came up with was to actually stabilize and calibrate the mind so that it could do the Deep work of penetration obviously if you were trying to look at the Moon and you put your telescope on say a water bed and then tried to you know find the moon every time you shift it your p posture even the tiniest little bit you lose the moon in the telescope so it's the same with the mind if the mind is going to investigate itself first you have to learn at least the rudiments of stabilizing the mind enough so that it can actually do the work of paying attention and being aware of what's actually going on beneath the surface of our own mind's activities which often are what thwart us or distract us or carry us away someplace else as you'll soon see so for all these reasons mindfulness is really Universal and doesn't have anything to do with Buddhism in the sense of you have to be a Buddhist in order to practice mindfulness or for that matter even that you have to practice meditation in order to cultivate mindfulness but if you understand meditation in the deepest of ways then you can't possibly not practice meditation when you're cultivating mindfulness because they are no less than the same thing it's this deep dimension of awareness that is ours already but that we just are so unfamiliar with that we can't put it to use at the times in our lives that we need it the most for close to 30 years now my colleagues and I at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's stress reduction Clinic have been using mindfulness within mainstream medicine as a profound resource for people facing stress stress pain and illness and disease who find that they don't receive full satisfaction from their health care and medical care who you could say fall through the cracks of the Health Care system and actually a lot of people fall through the cracks of the Health Care system and don't get full satisfaction so the idea of the stress reduction Clinic is to challenge people to see if there's not something that they can do for themselves as a compliment to whatever their doctors and surgeons and the Health Care system as a whole can do for them to move towards greater levels of health and well-being and when I say health and well-being I mean on the deepest and broadest of levels so that ultimately has to do not just with the health of the body or with getting people back to some kind of socially acceptable normal state but what the true extent of Being Human actually is and coming to know the Mind intimately and to be able to use it in ways that actually cultivate the wisdom and deep quality qualities of compassion and goodness that lie within us this work which has spread to clinics and medical centers and hospitals around the world in the past 10 plus years is known as mindfulness-based stress reduction or mbsr some of the methods we'll be practicing in the second session are the same as those we use with our patients in the hospital
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Love this video but a few errors in the supposition that the key tenets of mindfulness grounded from Buddhism , ie from a historical context. Both Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism are dharmic traditions that were and still are poorly categorised and ascribed by the western judeo Christian lens. They were not so neatly knotted into singular entities and labelled Hinduism or Buddhism until Christian evangelical and western colonialism came. Even under Islam, that destroyed and converted many of the ancient Buddhist kingdoms in present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Singh and Punjab, they understood the nuances of these dharmic faiths. Now in terms of the origins of mindfulness, the earliest mention of the tenets and principles of this can be noted from the ancient Upanishads and then Jain texts, both of which predate buddhism.
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