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From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment 'practice' or 'meditation practice.'
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Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.
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Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.
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Born:
June 5, 1944
(age 79)
Bio:
Jon Kabat-Zinn is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Known for:
Wherever You Go, There You Are (1994)
Full catastrophe living (1990)
Mindfulness for Beginners (2006)
Coming to our senses (2005)
Arriving at Your Own Door (2007)
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