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Ceaseless Society: Is 24/7 Good for Us?
April 25, 2006
Jon Kabat-Zinn writer
Legphel Priyadarshi Buddhist chaplain, visiting scholar, MIT

Jon Kabat-Zinn, faculty member at UMASS Medical School, Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, and author of Meditation for Optimum Health, Full Catastrophe Living, and Wherever You Go, There You Are, gives an overview of the effects of our 24/7 society and how it affects our mind, body and spirit. Additional comments by The Venerable Tenzin LS Priyadarshi, Buddhist Chaplain and Visiting Scholar, MIT.

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