Ep. 221 – Real Life Series with Daisy Hernández

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

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

For episode 221 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are continuing the Real Life Series in celebration of Sharon’s new book by the same name, “Real Life.” In this conversation, Sharon and Daisy Hernández speak about the emergence of equanimity on the spiritual path and the dawning of clarity.

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

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Daisy Hernández is a Journalist, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University and the author of The Kissing Bug, which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. Her memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed won the IPPY Award for best coming-of-age memoir and Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.

To learn more about Daisy’s work, you can visit her website.

"Don’t sweat the small stuff. My mother used to say that, I guess. In Spanish, the equivalent to ‘don’t sweat the small stuff’ is ‘No te ahogues en un vaso de agua’, literally, ‘don’t drown yourself in a cup of water.” – Daisy Hernández

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.

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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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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.
1:19.8	The smaller the stakes, the bigger the drama.
1:24.4	So it's like some itty-bitty little thing that everyone's like completely freaked out of me. Well, wait a minute. You know, so it's like some itty-bitty little thing that everyone's like completely freaked out of me.
1:29.8	I think, well, wait a minute, you know, like maybe we could get upset about something bigger, you know, if we're going to get upset.
1:37.3	And I think that's really true that we do, it's like we recapture a lot of energy by not getting so invested in every single small thing that really is not making a difference for anybody.
1:50.0	But we get invested nonetheless.
1:51.2	And I think of clarity is really perspective. Hello and welcome to the META Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg. I'm Lily Cushman and I produce this wonderful podcast. And today we are
2:22.7	bringing you episode 221, which is the second to last episode in our real life series that we've been doing since the spring.
2:37.0	And, of course, this series is all conversations centered around Sharon's new book by the same name, Real Life.
2:46.4	And today's guest is the wonderful Daisy Hernandez.
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