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Beginner's Mind: Buddhist Psychology and Mindfulness

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Join Jon Kabat-Zinn and Brother Phap Luu for a live virtual exploration of Buddhist Psychology through the practice of Beginner’s Mind.

January 5 / 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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A Live Exploration of Buddhist Psychology Through the Practice of Beginner’s Mind

In this 90 minute session, step into a space of awareness and openness right in the midst of your busy life. Join Jon Kabat-Zinn and Brother Phap Luu LIVE for Beginner’s Mind: Buddhist Psychology and Mindfulness, a conversation between two iconic thinkers and friends that explores how ancient wisdom can support clarity and emotional balance in the modern world. While the focus is on dialogue and insight, there will be some experiential practices to help you drop into moments of clarity and inner calm.

In a time shaped by constant stimulation and habitual thinking, this session invites you to rediscover curiosity and presence through the lens of Buddhist psychology. Through guided mindfulness practices and reflection, you will learn how approaching experience with a beginner’s mind can soften reactivity, deepen understanding, and bring fresh perspective to everyday moments.

This session offers simple, practical tools you can integrate into daily life, no matter how full your schedule may be. Join us live and reconnect with mindfulness as a living practice you can return to again and again.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded its world-renown Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic in 1979, and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (CFM), in 1995. Both the MBSR Clinic and the CFM are now part of UMassMemorial Health.

His work and that of a global community of colleagues has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, psychology, health care, neuroscience, schools, higher education, business, social justice, criminal justice, prisons, the law, technology, the military, government, and professional sports. Over 700 hospitals and medical centers around the world now offer MBSR. 

Jon Kabat-Zinn’s books, his app and other guided meditation programs, his public and professional talks, and his in-person and online retreats describe and invoke the cultivation of mindfulness in such commonsensical, relevant, and compelling terms that its practice has become a way of life for many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world.

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Brother Phap Luu

Brother Phap Luu is a Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, and author in the Plum Village tradition founded by the late Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. Ordained in 2003, he is one of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s most prominent students and has played a key role in sharing the practice of mindfulness with global audiences. 

A former musician and recording artist, Brother Phap Luu brings a unique blend of creativity, depth, and practicality to his teachings. He offers mindfulness in a way that is grounded, relatable, and responsive to the challenges of modern life, especially for younger generations navigating identity, relationships, creativity, and well being. 

Brother Phap Luu teaches internationally through retreats, workshops, and online offerings, helping individuals and communities cultivate presence, compassion, and resilience in daily life. His work bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary culture, making mindfulness a lived, embodied practice rather than a concept. Through his teachings, writings, and public talks, he continues the Plum Village mission of engaged Buddhism, supporting healing, understanding, and collective awakening in the world.

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