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| - | ==== Coming to Our Senses ==== | + | Holy Toledo, so glad I clieckd |
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| - | Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness | + | |
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| - | * by Jon Kabat-Zinn | + | |
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| - | "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." | + | |
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| - | * 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, | + | |
| - | * seeing it with equanimity | + | |
| - | * less clinging and grasping | + | |
| - | * detecting fabrication | + | |
| - | * like writing | + | |
| - | * 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, | + | |
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| - | * 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 | + | |
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| - | 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 | + | |
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| - | Capabilities | + | |
| - | * capturing the full spectrum of our capabilities, | + | |
| - | * 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. | + | |
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| - | Notes taken while listening to the audiobook: | + | |
| - | == Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Coming to Our Senses. Hyperion Audiobooks. == | + | |
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| - | [[reading notes]] | + | |
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