Ep. 578 – The Power and Strength of Love with David Nichtern and Sharon Salzberg
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Cultivating both inner and outer harmony, the Be Here Now Network trifecta of Raghu, David, and Sharon offers lessons in metta and letting go.
This episode was recorded live at the annual Ram Dass Legacy “Open Your Heart in Paradise” retreat in Maui. Learn more about these Maui retreats, our annual Mountain retreat in Boone, North Carolina, and our regular digital retreats at ramdass.org/event.
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This week on Mindrolling, Raghu, David, and Sharon discuss:
- Ram Dass’ teaching of loving awareness and being at home in the universe
- Putting practice and compassionate mindfulness into our daily lives
- The power and strength of love
- A guided metta practice from Sharon
- Both inner and outer harmonizing and turning metta towards ourselves
- The Bodhisattva tradition and taking on the suffering of others
- Loving motivation and using wise discernment
- The continual process of letting go
- Forgiveness and not allowing pain to overtake our lives
About David Nichtern:
David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon, is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. He is also a business consultant with companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context. David is also a multiple Grammy-nominated and Emmy award-winning musician.
About Sharon Salzberg:
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed five million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond.
Learn more about Sharon and pre-order her new book at www.sharonsalzberg.com
“You can ask yourself the question, what do I really want to see? What do I care about most right now? Is it winning or is it being kind? It brings us to wisdom we already have, that we can then bring forth and have it inform our action as best we can.” – Sharon Salzberg
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to play a couple of Ram Dass pieces, short pieces that address the theme of this retreat around finding |
| 0:27.6 | balance in the sacred. And so let's just play those first and then we'll introduce Sharon. |
| 0:35.6 | Are we going to experience a homecoming. |
| 0:39.8 | I'll tell you, I experience that as I keep opening my heart |
| 0:46.0 | and accept my part in the sea of humanity, |
| 0:50.4 | in the process of it, |
| 0:52.4 | and start to allow that quality of compassion to come forth and the kind of |
| 0:57.4 | that quality, I experience the feeling of coming home. |
| 1:02.7 | I feel like I come home into family. |
| 1:04.9 | I come home into place. |
| 1:06.8 | I come home into the harmony of things. |
| 1:09.6 | I think that the conditions are available for us to feel that feeling. |
| 1:14.6 | And I think as each individual feels it, then they become an instrument through which others feel it. |
| 1:21.6 | I think it is a heart-to-heart process of coming home into that feeling of being at home. |
| 1:28.5 | Because the statement, like, I remember being in a motel on tour, |
| 1:35.7 | I had been on tour for about six months, and I was in a motel, |
| 1:40.2 | and after that, a few later, I was going to go back to a place that was my base camp that was sort of my |
| 1:45.1 | apartment and I thought I came in and I sat down in this I don't know whether it was a motel |
| 1:51.6 | six or a mota in or something it was a plastic place with predictable qualities to it and I sat down and I thought |
| 1:59.9 | you know only two more weeks that I can go home. |
| 2:04.0 | And then I thought, isn't that a bizarre concept? Why aren't I home now? Because since I'm on the |
| 2:10.6 | road most of the time, I'm always not going, I'm not being home. So I got up and I walked out of the |
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