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Index
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
NEW FOREWORD BY JON KABAT-ZINN
INTRODUCTION The Challenge of a Life’s Time—and a Lifetime
PART 1 Meditation: It’s Not What You Think
Meditation Is Not for the Faint-Hearted
Witnessing Hippocratic Integrity
Meditation Is Everywhere
Original Moments
Odysseus and the Blind Seer
No Attachments
The Origin of Shoes: A Tale
Meditation—It’s Not What You Think
Two Ways to Think about Meditation
Why Even Bother? The Importance of Motivation
Aiming and Sustaining
Presence
A Radical Act of Love
Awareness and Freedom
On Lineage and the Uses and Limitations of Scaffolding
Ethics and Karma
Mindfulness
PART 2 The Power of Attention and the Dis-Ease of the World
Why Paying Attention Is So Supremely Important
Dis-Ease
Dukkha
Dukkha Magnets
Dharma
The Stress Reduction Clinic and MBSR
A.D.D. Nation
24/7 Connectivity
Continual Partial Attention
The “Sense” of Time Passing
Awareness Has No Center and No Periphery
Emptiness
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Related Readings
Credits and Permissions
Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Newsletters
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