Jon Kabat-Zinn is awesome, a Zen master for the 21st century modern western scientific community

For some reason his voice is very soothing to me.

How fortunate we are to live during an age in which we have easy access to such inspiring talks. I truly believe that people will look back on this era and say that mindfulness saved humanity. Beautiful.

coming out of a major depression I have experienced falling awake - it opens up a whole new vibrant world - living in the moment not lingering on the past or the future will keep me living rather than just existing

wow. After meditating for a few years, pain dissolved, anger became laughable, stress dissolved, depression lifted. Enlightenment beckoned, but love was the last test. Oh the pain, but mindfulness shone through. Eventually. Love and peace. Be happy

thanks UCTV for uploading such delightful videos!

The talk begins at 7:20.

The journey to self awareness started for me 6 months back when I read John Kabat Zinn's book Catastrophe Living I feel privileged to be able to hear John Kabat-Zinn here in Liverpool. Thank goodness for the Internet. Like anything else, technology is a double edged sword. A blessing if used mindfully and a disaster if used mindlessly!

thank you , blessings

What a great and inspiring talk!

Extremely relevant and beautiful. Perfect from start to finish. Thank you!

Very well done, Jon. Extremely moving. Thank you.

Thank you.

This really changed my whole life. Thank you for this talk Mr ❤️♥️

I just found your introduction lovely and a brilliant lead in to Jon's talk. I wouldn't skip it at all!

I bought his cd a about 3 years ago and it changed my thinking to the positive. Amazing.

I can go on and on listening to this wonderful man. He did and still does a lot for people. Thank you so much for posting this video.

Good advice. Thank you.

Anyone else watching this on 2021

listening with my bones hurts due my arthritis - so deeply enjoyed and learned

Thanks for the upload, UCtelevision. Jon is SO Beautiful!

I enjoyed your intro. I love how you shared your story!! SHARE YOUR STORY!

@ steven Hickman: I enjoyed your presentation, thank you. I have mental arguments all the time, until I remind myself to observe my surroundings and to just walk and kiss the ground with my shoes. I do this about a hundred times, and I go back to what I am doing. Having Borerline, I just have to do this to survive.

I loved your introduction.

I have read Jon's book "Full Catastrophe Living" and putting myself through the training process. I am lucky enough to sit through guided meditation sessions with Jon's son Wil

Outstanding!

Being present in every moment of one's life and experiencing each moment instead of just rushing through life to the next moment is a powerful idea. Slowing down to experience and appreciating the moment through every sense can make one more aware. Something I will strive to incorporate in my life-thanks!

Wow. Thanks for posting. Indeed, his manner shows his respect and deep understanding of the subject. It's inspiring. By the end of the talk, my blinds and window were open and I was watching and listening to the delightful world outside.

You sir are a courageous man...Thank you for validating the benefits of mindfulness...Mindfulness and awareness saved me from my neurosis...I actually wrote a book about it...The Road Back To Me..if you are interested as a professional to read how a depressed being used the process of awareness to heal Self...Namaste..

Phenomenal!

He appeared very articulate when speaking on this subject and he's kinda cute, too, ha ha. I've listened to him speak about this subject on three different videos and he brought a lot of clarity to each one.

i loved the intro as well!

Steve, don't be so hard on yourself. expressions from the heart are real and cultivated from the compassion you learned during your mindfulness training no doubt. if all the negative commoner

awesome!

Very enjoyable thank you

Es interesante comparar el nivel y calidad de comentarios en este tipo de videos con los que normalmente aparecen en los videos con muchos millones de reproducciones. Saludos cordiales ;-)

I think that mindfulness meditation and mindfulness in general could be taught at schools with critical thinking skills at the same time, though they may seem a litle bit opposite. but they are not. we need critical thinking skills in this society of information and we need mindfulness in this society of materialism and blind to the mind.

I felt that too when I first saw Jon do a Google talk. But the more I delved into his work, the more I realized he's the real deal. I was always turned off of meditation by people like Deepak Chopra who seem to just want to capitalize off meditation. But Jon seems to be more heartfelt about all this mindfulness stuff. Plus he backs up what he says with hard science. And yet--despite his refreshingly scientific approach to it--he's managed to not turn it into something cold and analytical.

Hey TheCHRM2, that's ME you're telling people to skip over! Ouch! :-) Good humbling moment because I'm about to introduce Jon again on Friday. Promise to keep it short this time . . .

It's nice that youtube has a screen preview feature available :-). I was thinking exactly the same thing.

It wasn't that long to me. But I understand why some people would think it's too long. I liked your story in the beginning. That was interesting. Sometimes life leads us in a direction that we never thought we'd ever go. Some would say by design, at that there are no coincidences.

I hate to be pedantic, but it is Socrates who says "the unexamined life is not worth living" in Plato's *Apology*. I am learning more about mindfulness. It is helpful in dealing with OCD, which I suffer from.

We get to experience Jon beginning around 7:18 mark. Thumb up for us impatient folk.

What an amazing video, thank you John for you commitment to the cultivation of peace! Some of these comments surprise me in lieu of the video . Are these comments mindful? I don't believe so. When being mindful, one is less prone to react, defend, or attack. Being mindful really has nothing to do with religion. I wager that our "happy moments" are moments of attention, mindfulness, and appreciation. Mindfulness being the key. Just my 2 cents! Happy Holidays!

good vid!

Ok, j'ai créé ma propre MPC que je mets à disposition sur demande. Les bases de Jon sont les miennes mais la profondeur, de l'esprit sur la matière vient d'une seule et même source. La pleine conscience une origine précise. L'éveil adopté confirme cette approche.😉

read a book by him years ago

Something about the sound quality that is not so good as the sound quality of the one who introduced the speaker. I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Kabot-Zinn. Seems to be very much in touch with the Aura of the self, as he so profoundly puts it: "...the aura of yourself..."

已购买了此书的中文简体版权，译者也在加紧翻译中，期待卡巴金老师11月的北京之行！

Why does stuff like this always have such cracking music? That intro music was fairly awesome.

Interesting.

The MB SR program is supposed to help people who are in pain for instance and so far I haven't gotten an answer on how it does that and I'm trying to read all the books and I certainly listen to his C d's to fall asleep and I purchase the course and I've gone through one session so far and I hope to discover the answer

I can't see the problem with Steve Hickmans introduction... It's kind of normal and natural that a speaker gets an introduction - and if it's an introduction with a personal touch like here - I find it interesting most of the time. I did here for sure. Chill out... Is it really all about JKZ why we came here to listen and watch... or is it about mindfulness?

Yes, I see what you mean and what I meant was that there is literally the waking state into which one wakes up from sleep, whether abruptly or slowly - the very state I am in now and you are in right now. It's not as if without this "falling awake" sorcery we have just "falling asleep": let us remember we also do have "waking up". This is important because without due clarification as to how "falling awake" relates to normal waking up, coining this term is redundant.

great

Maybe it was a bit long, but I liked the beginning.

Interesting

A genius

You wont get far in meditation without an ethical foundation , the mind wont be able to settle...a key buddhist concept

I like what you say :)

jkzinn il piu grande maestro di vita

best.

it is. Grade 12s who take exercise science are given an option to study mindfulness as an assignment

in my studies, the MIND was considered not scientifically, but open to philosophical study; the most intelligent classmates I knew studied the philosophical side and switched to the religious when that was not enough...interesting how these subjects including theESP are now covered in our universities...the East has been doing it a little longer.

I'm referring to a class with a specific focus on meditation and mindfulness. Sort of like a gym class for the spirit.

will... each individual comprehend their own apprehensions???... ...comprehending this video will allow striving to put individual person group society ego/self here now presenting as such together as is desire according to essence*****

I'm at a university now, and people are so spacey. It's disheartening to really pay attention to people. For example, I had this group project, and we met after class to work on it (in the computer lab). Instead of helping me do the project, they all used Facebook (one was also on a bodybuilding website). When I would try to encourage them to work on the project, they were so spacey it took me a few attempts to get their attention. Out of 4 people, I did all the work (over 30 hours). Zombies! :(

If you would like to understand more about mindfulness I would sign up to a 10 day Vipassana course as taught by S N Goenka, to really understand mindfulness you have to experience it, not try to learn it in an intellectual way. There is a universal consciousness which is shifting towards mindfulness.

I solved a difficult maths problem when taking a shower on Sunday - wouldn't have done that if I'd been mindful when in the shower!

8:53 actually "Falling awake" is called waking up.

how to practice mindfullness i still cant figure what to do

my uncle gets headaches all the time someone suggested him taken up meditation to heal the headaches he said he wasnt doin it out of ignorance cause of the bible he thinks its of the devil i tried to tell him jesus meditated he said i was wrong he prayed not meditated

I'm doing EXACTLY what I criticized this guy for, just as you said. Unfortunately that's how I respond sometimes to morons who criticize someone for no good reason. . .He/She is insulting someone who's only trying to help others, and I think that's deplorable! To be honest, I don't care what you think. You're welcome to your belief(s).

(sorry hit enter)... if all the those who made negative comments had an ounce of compassion they wouldn't waste there time commenting.

Actually...I was looking for something to make me go back to sleep..

Enjoy meditation with nature on our channel.

how about being mindful and putting a date on your youtube videos!

*2020.*

The person doing the introduction was out of breath and seemed very awkward and uncomfortable so I guess maybe he doesn't like public speaking and he was rushing through it. But he had wonderful things to say and yes I do think he went on a bit too long. So it was wonderful that he said he wasn't into this and now all these years later he is into it but he didn't really connect for us how it happened and I don't think John was very clear about it either so I think most people walked away thinking what the h*** was this which is a real shame because it is really something good it just wasn't expressed well even though John has a very relaxing voice. Forgive the typose else I am speaking into this phone.

could have gone with a different thumbnail

Are you happy now?

its pretty obvious this guy has something figured out that most people never do? look at him, listen to him talk... you think so?

yes but what is truth,it can be a subjective thing.

yea, it would be better to start it from pre-school though. Given the lazy mentality of teens these days, courses are simply a way to get to university, not to learn, which may allow them to take a meditation course, not to improve well being, but to squander their time doing nothing while boosting their mark.

it was Socrates who could have been Aristotle's grand pappy

for NOW! ........

when has just listening become such an issue for people. oh yeah that's right--it's a talk about developing not only mindful attention but also kindness. is this a whining or no whining zone.....?

I disagree about the spirituality too. It is not spiritual, it's just that some people don't understand it and they attach the spirituality label to it!

Shame mindfulness/meditation education isn't a course in school.

Nope no affiliation, but meditation is very spiritual.

Check the data in his studies and others that are related. Ignore the perception of personality - test, experiment, try what he is talking about and abandon it all if it doesn't ring true. Does charisma make one wrong?

body area shock by the nervous system ... we need to stop mindfullnes + similar buddhism for a healthier life. a shock that lasts for days, relieves great pain, but you pay the price. If you're a damn golem, you can throw away your blood pressure monitor. and you get a life with your circulating pain. awkward path to your illness.

@MrGrevy - haha

i am a big fan of jon. this is one of his least cohesive talks. if you are looking for a better one try the google tech talks

1st step. Make money 2nd step. Increase your incomes with meditation 3rd step. They don't know if you are really on the Path. It seems... if you are boring, a sort of simple man. Ridiculous!

yea if so many christians believe in a powerful savior why do so many of them go to the hospitals fo thier physical ailments and body problems why dont they call on jesus or god to heal there pain they say pray for others but it does no good you have to take action for yourself dont depend on some non seeable force to do it for you

Very interesting speaker, as always. I would disagree on one point however, where Jon Kabat Zin states that meditation is not Buddhist. I disagree. You do not have to be Buddhist to practice meditiation, however, Mindfullness meditation was developed by the historical Buddha and taught as part of the path to achieve ultimate Buddhist goals. i.e. full liberation from attachment and aversion in the "empty state" known by some as Dharmakaya. Rigpa. Meditation without Buddhism is useful as it will improve a persons life, but in terms of Buddhism, it will not necessarily help the individual to overcome attachment or karma that is produced in this life. In some cases, all meditation will do will be to increase a persons efficiency at creating bad karma. An example of this is where a businessman working in a volatile and damaging industry is able to use meditation to sharpen his wits so he can optimize his business while at the same time increasing the damage on the people/world (and in turn, increase his own bad karma). Another example of where meditation is bad is in fuedal Japan during waring era. Japanese Samuria were trained in Zen in order to help optimize them as killers on the battlefield. Zen helped the Samurai to zone out and focus on the now and in turn kill many people while staying alive. Again, generally speaking karmically bad even if impressive from a martial arts point of view. This is why right livelihood is so important, as it guides people away from paths that are likely to cause bad karma. This is also the main reason why moral ethics and meditation are best when together, as when combined lead to liberation from suffering rather than temporary release, but then our body decays and inevitably dies and not even our new mind controlled success can stop our body dying in this world. I understand that Dharmakaya is likely hard to believe in if you have not experience, even briefly. But i believe Dharmakaya is. If so, please think deeper as other wise you may be leading people stray from the path. Still. I praise all you do as you do help millions of people looking for help.

7:15

Why doesn't JKZ run for president??

Well, lookit, from 0:00 to 7:20, its all Steven Hickman all the time!