Listening to Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
I’ve been listening to alot of podcasts lately, since I’ve been doing a lot of driving this summer. I always seem to enjoy the program “Speaking of Faith”. I am tired of Christianity and far more interested in Buddhism. Being raised a lax Unitarian, it’s not a far leap. Krista Tippett takes speaking of faith in intelligent directions, always.
Anyway, I stumbled upon Jon Kabat-Zinn in the last year or so, trying to deal with the death of both my brother and mother, searching for ways to live my life, be healthy, be awake, get through greiving, and make this life work…
I stopped the ipod at this moment in the conversation and “rewound”:
“The key to creativity is cultivating spaciousness of the mind”. Exactly, I thought, that is exactly what I am looking for. I know these are the times that I am producing the best work, the best thoughts, the best energy.
So he goes on, “Well, actually the spaciousness is already in the mind…we can’t cultivate it, what we can cultivate is intimacy with it so that we actually know how spacious, how luminous, how creative and reliable our own minds are. Now that would be good to start learning in kindergarten!”
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/