Book
Kabat-Zinn J. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. New York: Hyperion; 1994. 304 p.
Why we cite it
A book by Jon Kabat-Zinn introducing mindfulness to general readers, written after his clinical manual Full Catastrophe Living (1990). In the book’s account, it is organized as short meditations and reflections rather than a structured program, and its title states the core idea: there is no escape from the present moment, so the practice is to meet it fully. A tenth-anniversary edition was published in 2005.
About the author
Jon Kabat-Zinn (BS, Haverford College; PhD Molecular Biology, MIT, 1971; doctoral advisor: Salvador Luria, Nobel laureate) is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Founding Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMass Medical School (1979) and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Student of Zen teachers Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn. Founding member of the Cambridge Zen Center. Author of Full Catastrophe Living (1990), the clinical MBSR manual.