Ep. 108 – Metta & Generosity w/ Sharon Salzberg
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Sharon Salzberg joins Joseph Goldstein to talk about how Metta (lovingkindness) is an expression of generosity, and to answer questions from the audience at the 2018 Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat on Maui.
This is the continuation of a conversation between Joseph and Sharon about generosity as a practice - listen to part one here: Insight Hour Ep. 107
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| 0:00.0 | 1. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. |
| 0:18.0 | This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 0:24.0 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
| 0:30.0 | If you are interested in supporting this podcast, |
| 0:33.0 | please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Another whole arena of generosity which Sharon is written and spoken so much about |
| 0:56.9 | is the understanding that meta loving kindness |
| 0:59.9 | is the expression of generosity. |
| 1:04.1 | And I just want to highlight one aspect of it and then Sharon can elaborate, as she does so beautifully. |
| 1:15.0 | And that is really, |
| 1:18.0 | And that is really, really clarifying the difference in our experience between love and |
| 1:33.7 | love and attachment. |
| 1:35.8 | Because for most people, especially in close relationships, |
| 1:41.6 | love and attachment are often just so intertwined |
| 1:47.0 | that it's almost impossible to tell them apart. |
| 1:50.0 | You know, with somebody that's very close to me and I love them how can I not be |
| 1:56.3 | attached you know it's just like doesn't quite make sense. |
| 2:08.0 | However, if we can bring a very careful mindfulness to our experience of attachment and love. |
| 2:15.1 | The difference becomes very, very clear. |
| 2:18.4 | So for example, what is the energy, kind of the pure energy of love? |
| 2:26.4 | In my experience, it's a generosity of the heart. |
| 2:30.4 | It's like, it's a giving of the heart. It's a wishing for the well-being for the |
| 2:37.1 | happiness for the joy of someone else or even towards ourselves, but it's the energy that goes outward. |
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