My mother started hemorrhaging and I was alone in the house with her and she told me what to do.

You know, I called an ambulance I called my father's mother, which my mother had told me to do, said, you know, you have to come get me or, you know, you have, someone has to come take care of me.

And my mother was taken away in an ambulance and given

sort of cultural conditions at that time I was not allowed to go see her in the

hospital. She died about two weeks later and so I had never seen her

again after that night when she went away by the ambulance. And then I was suddenly living

with my father's parents.

My father had been totally out of my life since I was four

and I barely knew them.

So if you can't, the divorce is the first major disruption.

This was now the second where I was living with these new strangers.

Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of the Light Watkins show where I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified with as their mission.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of

many other people who've either heard about their story or who witness them in

action or who've directly benefited from their work. And this week I am re-erring a

conversation that I had with Sharon Salzburg. For those of you who don't know

Sharon is one of the original Buddhist meditation teachers

who helped introduce meditation to mainstream America along with Joseph Goldstein, Jack Cornfield,

John Cabotzan, and of course, Ram Dass.

In other words, if these people had not brought meditation to America, none of us would probably

be talking about meditation right now.

And so I've been a huge fan of hers for a very long time.

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