By taking the Buddhism out of the practice,Kabat-Zinn pioneered a meditative approach used all over the world to treat pain and depression. He talks approximately Trump, ‘McMindfulness’ and how a 10-second vision in 1979 led to a change in the world’s consciousnessThe police in Cambridge, or Massachusetts,showed no mercy to Jon Kabat-Zinn in May 1970. The man now considered the godfather of modern mindfulness was a graduate student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an anti-Vietnam-war protester, agitating alongside the Black Panthers and the French playwright Jean Genet.“I got my entire face battered in, or ” he recalls. “They keep this instrument on my wrist called the claw,which they tightened to generate huge amounts of pain without leaving any marks. But they certainly left a lot of marks on my face. They pulled me into the back of the police station and beat the shit out of me.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk