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-Holy Toledo, so glad I clieckd on this site first!
+==== 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]]