Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Coming to Our Senses ==== Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness * by Jon Kabat-Zinn In a Nutshell: The cultivation of mindfulness is not only an invaluable means of appreciating the present moment and healing the body; it is a discipline that opens our senses and gives us a way to cope with the distress and dissatisfaction of our lives and move toward the creation of a better world. (from http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=9509) * relationality * orthogonal institutions * thinking turns situations into problems -> situations require a response - require an analysis and observation * you make / u have - thinking is a fabrication - a screen between us and direct experience * clear thinking is powerful, but often it isn't clear * untrained mind-fabricating, proliferation... - invisible * seeing it with equanimity * less clinging and grasping * detecting fabrication * like writing on water * intention not to make anything * do we really know what is happening in an event? (news?) * removed from our direct experience until they (events) become our direct experience - can we be orthogonal, inclusive, compassionate, wise? Shouldn't we be more engaged? * being aware of what we know and not know... * not to get caught up and blinded by our blind emotions * take practical steps to nurture new possibilities * what are we doing with our creative energies to heal the body politic Suspension of distraction * communing, making eye contact, less absorbed with daily preoccupations * wordless presence * recognition of dis-ease (9/11) * everything is impermanent - institutions can't stop it * things are fundamentally uncertain - terrifying people * the mind forgets rapidly * embodiment of our deepest principles: linger collectively in suspension of distraction Capabilities * capturing the full spectrum of our capabilities, rather than narrowing ourselves to only making & thinking * massive interior ignoring of who we are and where we live * own to our own sentience, come to our senses * start paying attention & wake up to things as they are. all else will follow. (...) Notes taken while listening to the audiobook: == Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Coming to Our Senses. Hyperion Audiobooks. == [[reading notes]]Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International coming_to_our_senses.1299472286.txt.gz Last modified: 2011-03-07 04:31by 203.117.66.237