September 10, 2021
We’re back with Season 3 of the show, starting with renowned meditation teacher, author, and creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Jon Kabat-Zinn. This spacious and personal conversation is full of insights on a wide range of topics, including:
- what drew him to meditation;
- his development of and vision for MBSR;
- the mystery of the line between the inside and outside of any system;
- adapting Buddhist practices for Western audiences;
- how mindfulness has been taken up in society, and science as a main driver;
- self and other—moving from “me” to “we”;
- the challenges of repeatability in scientific studies of meditation;
- weaving together art and science;
- and how 50+ years of meditation has changed him.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of numerous books, including Full Catastrophe Living, Arriving at Your Own Door, Coming to Our Senses, and Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief.
Resources
- Guided Meditations from Jon
- Jon’s Simple Guide to Meditation on MasterClass
- Paper: The Liberative Potential of Mindfulness (Mindfulness, 2021)
- Paper: Seeds of a necessary global renaissance in the making: the refining of psychology’s understanding of the nature of mind, self, and embodiment through the lens of mindfulness and its origins at a key inflection point for the species (Foreward to special issue of Current Opinion in Psychology, 2018)
- Paper: Too Early to Tell: The Potential Impact and Challenges—Ethical and Otherwise—Inherent in the Mainstreaming of Dharma in an Increasingly Dystopian World (Mindfulness, 2017)
- Keynote Lecture at the International Symposium for Contemplative Research
- 2021 Mind & Life Inspiring Minds: The Role of Attention and Awareness in an Era of Misinformation and Digital Seduction
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