The Ceaseless Society
Today I listened to a webcast of a program that was held at MIT awhile ago called The Ceaseless Society. The primary speaker was Jon Kabat Zinn who spoke on a wide range of topics around the state of society today. Some of the points that stuck in my mind included:
- Being in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction
- Continually living for the future causes us to miss our current life
- Digital revolution changed the relationship to work
- Connected with the world has led to being disconnected with ourselves
- Not stepping back and asking why are we doing this
- Buddhism is not about duality
- What is meditation? It's about mindfulness: paying attention, in the moment, non judgmentally
He has a book out called Coming to Our Senses which explores these and many more topics in detail. I'm going to add it to my to read list as I found his way of approaching the topic spot on.