Some Notes on recent Jon Kabat-Zinn videos:
JKZ 43-
Taking your seat is "taking a stand" of profound care/wisdom; it's an invitation to look and attend, inwardly, outwardly;
It's a recalibration to this moment, under the pyrotechnics; no forcing, straining, no idealizing, knowing what's there -- the pleasant, unpleasant; getting out of autopilot, we're more asleep than awake
each in-breath- brand new beginning, invitation, wake up; each out-breath - compete letting be, as they are (no passive resignation but recognition); be with things exactly as they are; can I be at home here and now?
JKZ 42 -
just this soundscape of now, mindscape of now, heartscape of now, bodyscape of now, breathscape of now
live life as though it really, really, really mattered
what's bigger than my story, her story, his story?
full flowering of dignity of human being; often it looks like nothing; non-doing does. not equal doing nothing; make room for and enter and reside in; not something you "get," but a tiny shift in orientation, intention;
let it be an adventure, investigation into not knowing and saying yes; equanimity is balance of heart and mind;
life lights up because we're not missing it
wanting things to be the same is like being in the middle of the ocean and saying "stay like this"... that's where self-compassion comes in
don't ignore the (challenging) landscape that your living in. That's a form of violence to yourself. Instead, life is your curriculum -- taking it on --
advises parent not to introduce kids to meditate, but do it yourself and be the example "be mindful and let them figure it out themselves"
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