In this episode, Wendy speaks with renowned and beloved meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. Sharon has been teaching meditation in the West for over 40 years, and is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society. Their conversation covers many topics, including:
- finding Buddhism and meditation as a teenager, and where it led her;
- her experience as a woman in the early contemplative movement;
- loving kindness & metta, and their relationship to prayer;
- love as an ability;
- the role of narrative and story-telling in our world and minds;
- a call for balance and self-compassion on the path;
- the role of the body in meditation;
- why contemplation matters for societal change;
- and living into our interconnection.