Ep. 220 – Real Life Series with Mark Epstein

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

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For episode 220 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are continuing the Real Life Series celebrating Sharon’s new book by the same name, “Real Life.”

This interview features a conversation between Sharon and Mark Epstein, recorded for the Living An Authentic Life Summit.

Real Life, the book that inspired this series, is now available from Flatiron Books in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. To learn more about the book or get a copy, you can visit Sharon’s website here.

Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, and his newest work The Trauma of Everyday Life. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University.

To learn more about Mark’s work, you can visit his website.

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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?
0:14.0	Join us for intimacy with all things, cultivating conscious relationships in daily life.
0:20.0	A 10-day virtual immersion with
0:22.5	Ram Dass and friends, starting April 21st. In a world that often feels isolating, this course
0:29.1	offers daily Dharma talks, guided teachings, and wisdom from Ram Dass, Sharon Salzburg,
0:35.2	Krishnodos, Frank Ostayesky, David Nichtern, and Gary Zukoff.
0:40.2	Learn to break down the walls of separation and experience life through love and connection.
0:47.0	Discover how to see the divine in yourself and others.
0:50.8	Deep in intimacy beyond surface-level relationships.
0:58.4	Navigate family, friendship, and work through a spiritual lens step out of loneliness and into the heart of love and compassion
1:03.4	sign up now to begin your journey of connection
1:06.4	visit romdos.org forward slash today intimacy.
1:11.0	The mental factor of ignorance or delusion is the core a problem.
1:27.4	Like you can't have anger or greed without ignorance in the background.
1:33.3	And you can eliminate through spiritual pursuits, you can eliminate
1:38.3	aspects of anger and aspects of greed, but you can never be enlightened if you don't get to the root,
1:45.5	which is ignorance or delusion. And so there's a way of understanding even the four noble truths
1:51.6	and, you know, the second noble truth that we usually think of as the cause of suffering,
1:56.9	being craving or thirst or whatever. But from the opidama perspective,
2:01.3	the cause of suffering, the root cause is ignorance or delusion.
2:14.6	Hello and welcome to the Meta Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg.
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