Wherever You Go, There You Are
Worcester, Massachusetts (UMass Medical School) · 1994
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn
1944 CE · Modern · New York City
b. June 5, 1944 (living)
Jon Kabat-Zinn (b. 1944) is an American scientist who created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a secular clinical program he founded at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979. Drawing on mindfulness practices he had learned in Buddhist settings, he deliberately removed religious framing and presented the practice in a medical and scientific context for use in hospitals and clinics. He is best understood not as a teacher within a Buddhist lineage but as the originator of a secular, clinical adaptation of mindfulness; his work has been hugely influential in healthcare and psychology. He continues to write and teach.
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What they did here
DOCUMENTED: born in 1944; earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT and practiced meditation with teachers including Philip Kapleau and (later, in spirit) Thich Nhat Hanh.
About New York City
New York City, in the United States. In the 20th century its theological institutions—notably Union Theological Seminary—hosted figures such as Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr and visitors including Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky.
In New York City at the same time
Sokei-an (Shigetsu Sasaki), B. R. Ambedkar, Pema Chödrön, Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg
Across the traditions, in New York City at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Jon Kabat-Zinn’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Sokei-an (Shigetsu Sasaki), B. R. Ambedkar, Pema Chödrön, Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Jon Kabat-Zinn’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Christian world
Hindu world
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Full Catastrophe Living
Worcester, Massachusetts (UMass Medical School) · 1990