23-02-2016 | ORTHOGONAL ROTATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS
The Stress Reduction Clinic
Auteur:
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Gepubliceerd in:
Mindfulness
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Uitgave 3/2016
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Excerpt
Harking back to dukkha and dis-ease, if I hadn’t known it before simply from my own meditation practice and observing my own incessant tendencies to go unconscious and be caught up and completely entangled in the turbulence of the thinking mind and reactive emotions, working in a stress reduction clinic soon confirmed how widespread the dis-ease of unawareness really is, and how hungry we are to set it right, how starved we are for a consistent, authentic, wholehearted experiencing of being alive, of being undivided, how starved we are for peace of mind, and how desirous of finding some relief from what often seems like a treadmill of endless physical and emotional pain. …