What meditation really is by Jon Kabat Zinn

0:00 What meditation really is
1:02 The calling of meditation
2:35 One moment to live

Jon Kabat-Zinn, a pioneer of scientific research on meditation, defines meditation as “living life as if it really mattered”.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is a meditation teacher, writer, and scientist. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founder (in 1979) and former director of its world- renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; and co-author, with his wife, Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting. Together with his colleagues, he has published numerous scientific papers on the clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine. His work has been featured in the Bill Moyers PBS special, Healing and the Mind, as well as on Oprah, Good Morning America, and in numerous print media.