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Mind & Life

Sharon Salzberg - Love and Wisdom

Sep 9, 2022
58:33

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.

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