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Coming to Our Senses
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Coming to Our Senses (2005) (edit title/settings)

Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author) (edit contributors)

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Now in paperback, the guide to living a meaningful life from the world stress expert "<The> journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they actually mattered . . ." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Introduction ... read more

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  • “We can have children and go for years without really seeing them because we are only “seeing” our thoughts about them, colored by our expectations or our fears.”
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  • Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine.
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  • mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
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  • It is really an inward gesture that inclines the heart and mind (seen as one seamless whole) toward a full-spectrum awareness of the present moment just as it is, accepting whatever is happening simply because it is already happening.
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  • Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.
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  • Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and for the world to be exactly as it is in this moment as well.
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  • In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something very special is already occurring, and is always occurring, namely life emerging in each moment as awareness itself.
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  • Mindfulness can be thought of as moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a specific way, that is, in the present moment, and as non-reactively, as non-judgmentally, and as openheartedly as possible.
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  • It is saying that it is our attachment to the thoughts we have of who we are that may be the impediment to living life fully, and a stubborn obstacle to any realization of who and what we actually are, and of what is important, and possible. It may be that in clinging to our self-referential ways of seeing and being, to the parts of speech we call the personal pronouns, I, me, and mine, we sustain the unexamined habit of grasping and clinging to what is not fundamental, all the while missing or forgetting what is.
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  • Discernment, on the other hand, as differentiated from judging, leads us to see, hear, feel, perceive infinite shades of nuance, shades of gray between all-white and all-black, all-good or all-bad, and this what we might call “wise discerning” allows us to see and navigate through different openings whereas our quick-reaction judgments put us at risk for not seeing such openings at all, and missing the full spectrum of the real, and thus lead us to automatically and unwittingly limit the possible.
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  • Einstein put it quite cogently: “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”
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It is difficult to speak of the timeless beauty and richness of the present moment when things are moving so fast.

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  1. Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0786867566
Page Count: 631

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