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The Mindfulness Movement

I'm somewhat famous for oncehaving marched up to Goenka, my first teacher, and lookinghim...

I'm somewhat famous for once
having marched up to Goenka, my first teacher, and looking
him in the eye and saying, "I never used to
be an angry person "before I started meditating." Thereby laying blame exactly
where I felt it belonged which was on him, of course

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I'm somewhat famous for once having marched up to Goenka,
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my first teacher, and looking him in the eye and saying,
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"I never used to be an angry person
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"before I started meditating."
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Thereby laying blame exactly where I felt it belonged
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which was on him, of course.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:17:06
Uploaded
May 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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Movie Summary

Follow the emotionally compelling story of four main characters who reveal their personal hardships and explain how mindfulness transformed their lives.
And I'd been hugely angry but I didn't quite know it. - The Mindfulness Movement 00:04
And I'd been hugely angry but I didn't quite know ...
And the other part was being kind to myself - The Mindfulness Movement 00:07
And the other part was being kind to myself
In that discovery, and it was only after that, I think, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:19
In that discovery, and it was only after that, I think,
It still remains the pivotal turning point of my life. - The Mindfulness Movement 00:05
It still remains the pivotal turning point of my life.
[Narrator] When Sharon returned to America, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:09
[Narrator] When Sharon returned to America,
[Sharon] Some combination of us would go - The Mindfulness Movement 00:14
[Sharon] Some combination of us would go
[Narrator] Eventually Sharon, Joseph, and Jack - The Mindfulness Movement 00:17
[Narrator] Eventually Sharon, Joseph, and Jack
Up above the doorway, when we first looked at the building, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:22
Up above the doorway, when we first looked at the building,
[Daniel] When I was a graduate student at Harvard, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:08
[Daniel] When I was a graduate student at Harvard,
It's quite an interesting accident of history - The Mindfulness Movement 00:11
It's quite an interesting accident of history
Like Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg - The Mindfulness Movement 00:11
Like Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg
[audience applauds] - The Mindfulness Movement 00:15
[audience applauds]
As a clinical psychologist I was learning - The Mindfulness Movement 00:08
As a clinical psychologist I was learning
So I was very excited and I went back to Harvard - The Mindfulness Movement 00:04
So I was very excited and I went back to Harvard
"There's an upside to human potential - The Mindfulness Movement 00:05
"There's an upside to human potential
"Isn't that great?" - The Mindfulness Movement 00:22
"Isn't that great?"
[Narrator] Daniel became a best-selling author - The Mindfulness Movement 00:14
[Narrator] Daniel became a best-selling author
When we started out way back there were three articles - The Mindfulness Movement 00:10
When we started out way back there were three articles
In the last five years - The Mindfulness Movement 00:05
In the last five years
Right at the beginning, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:06
Right at the beginning,