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Ep. 202 - Jack Kornfield

Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

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Is There a Community in Meditation?

When he was teaching in the States, it didn't really occur to me that people were so often phenomenally lonely here. I'm thinking about Trudy, my beloved, his wife and colleague, Dharma teacher, who founded Inside LA. One of the things of many that they've done there is a program for the people who worked in the neonatal ICU at Children's Hospital. They would come on a series of retreats that weren't just silent. They would sit to make the place of compassion and mindful presence alive for them. And then they would take time to talk to each other.

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