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[Narrator] Eventually Sharon, Joseph, and Jack
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The Mindfulness Movement

EventuallySharon, Joseph, and Jack found a former Catholicseminary building in Barre,...

[Narrator] Eventually
Sharon, Joseph, and Jack found a former Catholic
seminary building in Barre, Massachusetts, and scraped together money
through fundraising and loans to create the Insight
Meditation Society, America's first
permanent retreat center started by Westerners

Full Transcript

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[Narrator] Eventually Sharon, Joseph, and Jack
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found a former Catholic seminary building
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in Barre, Massachusetts,
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and scraped together money through fundraising and loans
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to create the Insight Meditation Society,
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America's first permanent retreat center
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started by Westerners.
Duration
17 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:25
Uploaded
May 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Interesting Stuff Entertainment

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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.
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,
People check their email - The Mindfulness Movement 00:06
People check their email
Every time you bring your mind back, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:13
Every time you bring your mind back,
One of the other findings about beginning meditation - The Mindfulness Movement 00:09
One of the other findings about beginning meditation
There is some very good suggestive evidence from UCLA - The Mindfulness Movement 00:08
There is some very good suggestive evidence from UCLA
People who we call long-term practitioners, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:14
People who we call long-term practitioners,
What happens is that all of the genes that create, - The Mindfulness Movement 00:10
What happens is that all of the genes that create,
This is really interesting medically - The Mindfulness Movement 00:15
This is really interesting medically