Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

Ep. 211 – Real Life Series with Sarah Ruhl

May 18, 2023

53:46

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Emergence of the Many Good Things That Come From Our Path

3min

The Emergence of Creativity

2min

The Importance of Listening

2min

The Beauty of Playwriting

2min

How to Tap Into Your Creative Spirit During a Challenged Time

2min

The Uncertainty of Love Poems

3min

The Resilience of Meditation

3min

The Healing Power of Literature

3min

10.

The Power of Sharing Our Fragility

3min

11.

The Myth of Losing an Eye

2min

12.

The Window of Tolerance

2min

13.

The Power of Naming and Investigating What's Present

2min

14.

The Relationship Between Anger and Anger

2min

15.

The Importance of Mindfulness in Translation

2min

16.

The Power of Naming Taboo Topics

2min

17.

The Importance of Experiential Theater in Our Culture

2min

18.

The Art of Losing

2min

19.

The Importance of Meditation

3min

20.

The Art of Suffering

2min

21.

Three Days of Rage

2min

22.

Men Yelling at Men

2min

23.

The Possibility of Creativity in Our Most Challenged Times

2min

24.

Laundry in Quarantine

2min

25.

How to Gain Agency Over Your Lives in a World That Feels Overwhelming, Isolating, Polarized, and Apathetic

2min

For episode 211 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are continuing a special series celebrating Sharon’s new book, “Real Life.” In this episode pulled, from the Living An Authentic Life Summit, Sharon and Sarah Ruhl speak about creativity as a spiritual practice and how it naturally emerges from our path.

Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays have been produced on Broadway, nationwide, and internationally. Among her most popular are

Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (2009). Sarah is a 13P and New Dramatists member and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

To learn more about Sarah’s work, you can visit her website at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

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