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't the divorce is the first major disruption.

This was now the second where I was living with these new strangers. Hello there at the end of the tunnel listeners, it's your host Light Watkins and this week on the

podcast I'm honored to have as my guest one of the most prominent teachers in the

meditation community Sharon Salzburg for those of you who don't know Sharon is one of the original Buddhist

meditators who helped to introduce meditation to mainstream America back in the

1970s along with Joseph Goldstein, Jack Cornfield, John Cabot Zen, and of course Ram Das.

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

In fact, she and Jack Cornfield and Joseph Goldstein just celebrated their 45th anniversary

as co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barry, Massachusetts, and Sharon also just released her 11th book which is called Real Change back in

October and it's wonderful. Sharon is a New York Times best-selling author, she's a world-renowned meditation teacher, she's host of the Meta-hour

podcast which has over 3 million downloads, and she also recently celebrated her 50th anniversary

as a daily meditator.

50 years, that's just incredible.

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