Jon Kabat-Zinn: Compassion and Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn tells us why being mindful can help us unlock our compassionate side. This was part of a talk put on by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.

[nyinyi]

Small talk but it has a lot of meaning....free ourselves from prison of idea and opinions..stuff like that..! Thanks for sharing..

[SolaceEasy]

The spaciousness of pure awareness is compassion. Of course he says it after he says that words are meaningless in expressing these concepts.

[suavedave]

@parafacundo : That guy means that he is pissed off by what he interprets and negatively judges to be a sports reference, thereby demonstrating a lack of mindfulness toward the interviewer.

[cavenaileg]

minor league meditator: everything becomes a damned sports analogy!