This guy is Jon Kabat-Zinn. And he’s not at a monastery,he’s at a hospital. Kabat-Zinn...

[narrator] This guy is Jon Kabat-Zinn. And he’s not at a monastery,
he’s at a hospital. Kabat-Zinn had studied Zen Buddhism
while getting a molecular biology PhD. He also learned from several ambassadors
of the Burmese School of Meditation. He re-branded those teachings
to appeal to a secular Western audience with a program called
“Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.” Years later, he wrote, “I bent over backward to avoid being seen
as Buddhist, New Age, or plain flaky." He explained his reasoning in that
breakout episode with Bill Moyers. We had no idea, and this had never
been tried before in a medical center, whether mainstream Americans
would go for meditative disciplines