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30-03-2020 | ORTHOGONAL ROTATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS

“I Read the News Today, Oh Boy”

Auteur: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 6/2020

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This chapter was originally written almost twenty years ago. Today (March 16, 2020), we find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, underscoring both our universal vulnerability and our deep interconnectedness. Wherever you are, I wish for you and your family and community and for our deeply interconnected world that this terrible occasion helps us to wake up to the need for selfless wisdom and kindness and taking care of all that is most important for our survival and wellbeing, which clearly entails ensuring the wellbeing of all. The invitation of this moment is to not lose our minds and hearts when we most need them. The cultivation of mindfulness/heartfulness as our essential interface with everything that arises inwardly and outwardly in experience may very well be the key to our wellbeing and the wellbeing of the body politic and our world going forward. May all be safe and free from inner and outer harm. …
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* See, for instance, H. Zinn and A. Arnove, Voices of a People’s History of the USA:10th Anniversary Edition, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2004, 2009. Also, the American history curricula provided on the Zinn Education Project (ZEP) website: https://​www.​zinnedproject.​org.
 
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Although the legacy of Nelson Mandela has fallen far short of the original optimism in the wake of the remarkable peaceful end of apartheid in 1994. One-quarter of South Africans live in extreme poverty and the governing ANC is riddled through with corruption. See https://​www.​dailymaverick.​co.​za/​opinionista/​2018-07-18-mandelas-legacy-can-heal-the-festering-wound-of-the-past/​; https://​www.​nytimes.​com/​2018/​09/​30/​world/​africa/​south-africa-anc-killings.​html.
 
Metagegevens
Titel
“I Read the News Today, Oh Boy”
Auteur
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Publicatiedatum
30-03-2020
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Mindfulness / Uitgave 6/2020
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01356-z

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