More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up with 2006's Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Now, Coming to Our Senses is being made into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, and each with a new foreword written by the author. In the fourth of these “mini-books,” Mindfulness for All (which was originally published as Part VII and Part VIII of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on how mindfulness really can be a tool to transform the world—explaining how democracy thrives in a mindful context, and why mindfulness is a vital tool for personal and global understanding in these tumultuous times. By “coming to our senses”—both literally and metaphorically—we can…
The word for “mind” and the word for heart in Chinese and in many other Asian languages is the same word.