Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn diagnoses our ordinary waking state as a kind of sleep—decades spent mentally elsewhere while life unfolds unwatched. From Buckminster Fuller's suicidal pause at Lake Michigan to the Dalai Lama's response to genocide, from a third-century Chinese cook's effortless mastery to Thoreau's doorway vigils at Walden Pond, this book reveals that the problem is never where we are. The problem is that we are not actually there. Mindfulness is simply the decision to stop waiting for crisis to wake us up.

You'll learn:

- Why the self is constructed fresh each moment, not discovered

- How Gandhi's final gesture emerged from decades of practice, not choice

- What Tibetan refugees possess that materially abundant Americans lack