[Coming to Our Senses 01] • Coming to Our Senses by Kabat-Zinn, Jon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Contents 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 A.D.D. NATION 24/7 CONNECTIVITY CONTINUAL PARTIAL ATTENTION THE “SENSE” OF TIME PASSING AWARENESS HAS NO CENTER AND NO PERIPHERY EMPTINESS

PART 3 THE SENSORY WORLD Your One Wild and Precious Life

THE MYSTERY OF THE SENSES AND THE SPELL OF THE SENSUOUS SEEING BEING SEEN HEARING SOUNDSCAPE AIRSCAPE TOUCHSCAPE IN TOUCH WITH YOUR SKIN SMELLSCAPE TASTESCAPE MINDSCAPE NOWSCAPE

PART 4 EMBRACING FORMAL PRACTICE Tasting Mindfulness

LYING DOWN MEDITATIONS SITTING MEDITATIONS STANDING MEDITATIONS WALKING MEDITATIONS YOGA JUST KNOWING JUST HEARING JUST BREATHING LOVINGKINDNESS MEDITATION AM I DOING IT RIGHT? COMMON OBSTACLES TO PRACTICE SUPPORTS FOR YOUR PRACTICE

PART 5 HEALING POSSIBILITIES The Realm of Mind and Body

SENTIENCE NOTHING PERSONAL, BUT, EXCUSE ME … ARE WE WHO WE THINK WE ARE? EVEN OUR MOLECULES TOUCH NO FRAGMENTATION NO SEPARATION ORIENTING IN TIME AND SPACE: A TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER ORTHOGONAL REALITY— ROTATING IN CONSCIOUSNESS ORTHOGONAL INSTITUTIONS A STUDY IN HEALING AND THE MIND A STUDY IN HAPPINESS— MEDITATION, THE BRAIN, AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM HOMUNCULUS PROPRIOCEPTION— THE FELT SENSE OF THE BODY NEUROPLASTICITY AND THE UNKNOWN LIMITS OF THE POSSIBLE

PART 6 ARRIVING AT YOUR OWN DOOR

“I CAN’T HEAR MYSELF THINK!” I DIDN’T HAVE A MOMENT TO CATCH MY BREATH THE INFIDELITY OF BUSYNESS INTERRUPTING OURSELVES FILLING UP ALL OUR MOMENTS ATTAINING PLACE YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE OVERWHELMED DIALOGUES AND DISCUSSIONS SITTING ON THE BENCH YOU CRAZY! PHASE CHANGES YOU MAKE, YOU HAVE ANY IDEAL OF PRACTICE IS JUST ANOTHER FABRICATION YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OF IT? WHO WON THE SUPER BOWL? ARROGANCE AND ENTITLEMENT DEATH DYING BEFORE YOU DIE DYING BEFORE YOU DIE—DEUX DON’T KNOW MIND ARRIVING AT YOUR OWN DOOR

PART 7 HEALING THE BODY POLITIC

HEALING THE BODY POLITIC “I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY” REMINDING MYSELF THAT SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT HELPFUL POLITICS NOT AS USUAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LESSONS FROM MEDICINE THE TAMING POWER OF THE SMALL MINDFULNESS AND DEMOCRACY TALKING VIETNAM MEDITATION BLUES— A SNAPSHOT FROM THE PAST, OR IS IT THE FUTURE? WAG THE DOG “I DON’T KNOW WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT MY PRACTICE!” THE SUSPENSION OF DISTRACTION MOMENTS OF SILENCE THE ASCENDANCY OF THE MINDFUL

PART 8 LET THE BEAUTY WE LOVE BE WHAT WE DO

DIFFERENT WAYS OF KNOWING MAKE US WISER ON THE DOORSTEP: KARMA MEETS DHARMA—A QUANTUM LEAP FOR HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF NATURE AND WHERE WE FIT IN HIDDEN DIMENSIONS UNFURLED GETTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

RELATED READINGS INDEX Acknowledgments About the Author ALSO BY JON KABAT-ZINN CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS Copyright

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