Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.

We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the

Commune podcast, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this

healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life. You can learn more about our courses, our community,

and everything we do at Onecommun.com. Okay, so today on the show,

I am featuring a lesson on loving kindness from the brilliant Buddhist meditation teacher,

Sharon Salzberg. Sharon is a New York Times bestselling author, pending numerous books,

including the recent release Real Change.

After immersing into the practice through her travels in Southeast Asia,

Sharon returned to the United States in 1974 to co-found the Insight Meditation Society

with Jack Cornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

She's been leading retreats around the world for over four decades.

And I'll simply add here that no one I know embodies mindfulness, gentleness,

gentleness of spirit and generosity more than Sharon. She lives the Dharma fully.

So in today's lesson, Sharon explores Meta Meditation. A meta is Sanskrit and

generally translated as loving kindness. A meta meditation is one in which one can send either

themselves or someone else love or compassion, often through the repetition of a simple mantra. A loving kindness can be

interpreted as a sense of interconnectedness, a reminder that we are not separate beings living in

an atomized universe. The practice of loving kindness reaffirms the potential within all of us for love.

So today's lesson is an excerpt from day five of Sharon's commune course,

Compassionate Resilience.

To access her full course, if you're interested,

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