Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
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“Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.”
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✦ More by Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
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You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.
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I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
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Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
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When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
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When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they?