Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Filed Under (Education) by admin on 17-12-2009
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Jon Kabat-Zinn leads a session on Mindfulness at Google. … Mindfulness Meditation
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love this clip….Jon Kabat zinn is awesome….WE NEED MORE GUIDED MEDITATION VIDEOS doctor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i watched that in 3 parts.. that was way too long for one sitting..
I’ve been practicing Zen for about 8 years and Jon Kabat-Zinn’s style of mindfulness meditation too – I’m training to teach it. They are closely related, but not exactly the same.
Both JKZ and Zen teach that our thoughts are not facts. We identify very strongly with our thoughts, believing them as reality. Zen does not teach us not to think, but to recognise that our thoughts are exactly what they are – thoughts.
Critical thinking is healthy.
I found this video very interesting. It is a breath of fresh air to learn about an alternaive perspective of living, and to be able to practice it too. Mindfulness meditation helped to ground me in this very busy and often confusing existence. We can all go on attending to every thought and every demand in this lifetime or we can make choices on whether to respond and how we respond. Thank you for this lecture Google. You are blessed to have a workplace that values psychological development.
Wells its good to hear someone here understand what this man is talking about. Thats awesome to here ladyblueday.
I feel greatly honoured to have the opportunity to hear Jon speek. Mindfulness has helped me come away from the mindless chatter in my head that only serves to intrench me in depression and anxiety. Living moment to moment and paying true attention to what is has healed me more then years of counselling ever could. Thank you Jon for reintroducing me to myself
No matter why you did it or whether you call it Zen or not, it is Zen.
No thats your truth.
Your right you did warn people, but i guess I didnt read your post careful. So my mistake.
I really don’t want you to agree with me, but if you can’t post any facts to back up your claims to why you think its dangerous, then im going to say something.
No matter why you did it or whether you call it Zen or not, it is Zen, with Kabat-Zinn giving his own spin to it maybe, but still Zen. He is a Zen Buddhist or at least a proponent of Zen.
I am warning people; i do have that right. I am not telling people what to do. This is still the U.S.A. right? At least, that’s where I live. Free speech and all that good stuff, you know.
I’m amazed at how many who say they are tolerant only want comment by those who agree with them.
I don’t do it to get anywhere or try to be more spiritual. I do it for my health. Just like playing a sport or working out we don’t call that spiritual. We call that taking care of our body. In the same way i call this mediation practice exercising the brain or mind or whatever you want to call it. Oh and by the way im not a Zen proponents. Just because it didn’t help you, doesn’t mean it gives you the right to tell people not to do it. Let them discover it for themselves.
Proponents of Zen make the case for me re thinking. Reality or truth is only to be apprehended through some kind of beyond thought realizations. So you are set up for this through meditation, which does have physiological effects that make you think it’s spiritual. But this is not a good forum to debate. I posted what I did for those receptive to it, not to argue with Zen proponents.
And if what you see and experience is harmfull to yourself and to others, then i would say meditation might have a big impact on you. You have been doing this for 12 years, but i never heard Jon Kabat Zinn say anything about devaluing your thinking.
“But since Zen devalues thinking and people fall for this”
Do you have any facts to back up this claim?
I wouldn’t listen to this crap. I would do it yourself and if it doesn’t work then don’t do it. Of course it changes your world view, but most people in this world have some really fucked up thinking and you can find that out by turning on your tv and listening to the news at night. Its dangerous, driving your car is dangerous, but i don’t think you would call off work to tell your boss, “I’m not going to work cause driving is dangerous” lol. Post some facts and maybe i will listen.
I was exastrologer and CANAMarcia, the name I used below, was a previous YouTube name on another computer, so I replied with that. YouTube was not letting me sign on as exastrologer no matter what I tried. So I had to create a new account in the name of TheExastrologer. So CANAMarcia, exastrologer, and TheExastrologer are all me!
Understand Meditation – The Concept
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Remember Ram Bonjom, aka Palden Dorje who has been meditating in Nepal for over 4 years under a tree? Well, from November 18th to the 23rd, 2009 Palden Dorje will be giving blessings in Gadhi Mai. He plans this appearance in order to protest the sacrificing of tens of thousands of animals before they take place on the 24th at the Gadhi Mai Festival near Nijgad in Bara District. Please participate in any way you can. Tell all your friends!
jimjim, I am an exastrologer and CANAMarcia is a previous Youtube name. Youtube won’t let me sign in as exastrologer for some reason.
A worldview is how you interpret what you see and experience. Buddhist meditation gets you into a state of mind in which your judgment and critical thinking are suspended. Of course, Zen considers this a good thing, but it’s a actually a method that undermines your ability to think and subtly alters your thinking. But since Zen devalues thinking and people fall for this, they think it’s good.
Could you please explain what you MEAN by worldview……..I have been usuing this method for about 12 months now…….I am interested in what you have to say….:-)
Thanks in advance….**light love and peace**
For all 4 reasons. I did this type of meditation for about 12 or 13 yrs.
I think mind conditioning is always dangerous. And just because it seems to have some benefits does not make it okay.
is it dangerous because of 1)the mind conditioning? 2)the Buddhist aspect? 3)that it changes worldviews? 4)you are not aware of what is happening to you?
many other things in our lives fit into all these categories ye we don’t see them as dangerous..
I did this type of meditation for years and would like to warn people not to do this. It is really a mind conditioning technique of detachment from Buddhism. It is dangerous although you might feel peaceful when you do it. It changes your worldview, but you are not aware that it’s happening.
good chit mon.
You can ask but it aint gunna happen.
The time will come
when with elation you will greet yourself
arriving at your own door
in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the others welcome
and say “sit here, Eat”
you will love again the stranger
that is Yourself
give wine give bread
give back your heart
to yourself
to the stranger
who has loved you all your life
who you have ignored for another