Power of Presence Practice
Presenter:
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn
Time:
16:44
Summary
Transcript
Hi everybody! Hi everybody online. The first rule of all of this is rearrange the furniture.
Okay, I'm going to be back in maybe an hour to actually go into things in some depth. But for now, all we need to do is recognize that there's nothing but depth in this room and in the world and in the room of your own heart, whether you're online and a million miles away, or whether
you're right here in this room, if your mind is recognizes how big it actually is, like how boundless awareness is, we're all in the same room all the time. It's even bigger than planet Earth.
But one of the things we really need to learn is how to, you know, take care of our home, because it's our only home. So the body and the planet are intimately related, and so it's a good place to start is to just drop in on your body, and it doesn't hurt for you to kind of intentionally, but not with that kind of artifice, sit in a posture that, if you're sitting, embodies wakefulness and dignity. Okay, and I can report that people are shifting their posture because they know they're not sitting in a posture that embodies wakefulness and dignity.
