Ep. 225 – Katherine May

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

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For episode 225 of the Metta Hour, Sharon welcomes New York Times bestselling author Katherine May.

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Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster. Her most recent book, “Enchantment: Awakening Awe in an Anxious Age” was an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her internationally bestselling hybrid memoir “Wintering” was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Katherine’s podcast, How We Live Now, ranks in the top 1% worldwide, and she has been a guest presenter for On Being’s The Future of Hope series. Katherine lives with her husband, son, two cats, and a dog. She loves walking, sea-swimming, and pickling slightly unappealing things.

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In this conversation, Sharon and Katherine discuss:

Coming into contact with life
Learning to pay attention again
The way rushing hinders our attention
Not spending time in one paradigm at a time
Sharon’s favorite word
“Enchantment” following “Wintering” thematically
Challenging our assumptions
Human endeavors that inspire awe
Awe isn’t just about prettiness
Katherine’s experience learning meditation
The myth of a perfect mindfulness performance
The bigger picture balance in life
Blocks we can feel towards our pleasure and joy
Holding joy and pain simultaneously
How Interconnection expands us to the natural world

Katherine closes the session with a short reading from her book, “Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age,” now available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. You can visit her website to learn more about Katherine and hear her podcast.

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0:00.0	To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things, Dogan Zenji.
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1:06.4	visit romdos.org forward slash today intimacy.
1:19.8	I mean, there's that sense that we do everything in such a rush now
1:25.5	and that we do five things at once always.
1:29.3	That means that we just cannot pay attention to the world that is asking for our attention.
1:38.3	We don't spend time just existing within one paradigm at once.
2:00.6	Hello and welcome to the Metta Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg.
2:07.9	I'm Lily Cushman. I'm the producer of this podcast. Today we're coming to you with episode
2:14.6	225, which is a conversation between Sharon and Catherine May.
2:22.4	Catherine is an author, an international best-selling author, to be more specific.
2:29.6	She's a podcaster, and today's conversation is mostly centered around her new book, Enchantment,
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