Ep. 211 – Real Life Series with Sarah Ruhl

Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

Be Here Now Network

Beherenow, Religion & Spirituality, Beherenownetwork, Buddhism, Meditation, Society & Culture, Sharonsalzberg, Metta, Salzberg, Compassion

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For episode 211 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are continuing a special series celebrating Sharon’s new book, “Real Life.” In this episode pulled, from the Living An Authentic Life Summit, Sharon and Sarah Ruhl speak about creativity as a spiritual practice and how it naturally emerges from our path.

Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays have been produced on Broadway, nationwide, and internationally. Among her most popular are

Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (2009). Sarah is a 13P and New Dramatists member and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

To learn more about Sarah’s work, you can visit her website at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

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0:00.0	To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things, Dogan Zenji.
0:05.0	What if every relationship, whether with a friend, a partner, a stranger, or even nature, was an opportunity for awakening?
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1:06.4	visit romdos.org forward slash today intimacy.
1:19.6	I'm trying to get to a kind of truth with compassion and trying to be in the present moment.
1:27.7	I think a lot of theater is trying to conjure presence,
1:31.8	and I think that is a spiritual practice.
1:39.4	Music Hello, hello, and welcome to the Metta Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg.
1:57.6	My name is Lily Cushman and I produce this podcast.
2:02.2	And we're here today with episode 211.
2:07.5	And venturing forward, continuing with a series that I may have told you was ending a few weeks ago.
2:16.6	But we've decided to continue the real life series here on the
2:22.6	podcast. So today's episode is a conversation with the playwright Sarah Rule. You may know of
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