From the Metta Hour Podcast with Sharon Salzberg | "Real Life" Book Preview
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You may have heard our interview with Sharon Salzberg earlier this week where we talked about openness, not believing the stories you tell yourself, and why the most powerful tools often seem the most stupid at first. I'm a big fan of hers and everything she does, so we wanted to give you a special preview of her new book, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom.
In Real Life, Sharon sets a path out for us, merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own teachings to:
- Uncover a deeper sense of ourselves
- Expand our vision of what's possible for ourselves
- Align our words, hearts, and actions with our core values
- Navigate loss without getting stuck in bitterness or disconnect
- Carry a sense of community with us, even in stormy times
- Recover from the emotional effects of crisis
- Learn the art of letting go and beginning again
- Build emotional intelligence to face times of difficulty without fear
- Seek out joy in everyday life, even when things don't go our way
- Befriend ourselves on the journey of being human
- Embark on the journey to embody a life of curiosity, authenticity, and freedom.
So enjoy this excerpt from her book, Real Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, Dan Harris here. You may have heard our interview with Sharon Salzberg |
| 0:07.2 | earlier this week where we talked about openness, not believing the stories you tell yourself |
| 0:12.1 | and why many of the most powerful tools often seem very stupid at first. I'm a huge fan |
| 0:17.8 | of Sharon's also consider her a friend. And for those reasons, I wanted to give you a |
| 0:22.2 | special preview of her new book, which is called Real Life, The Journey from Isolation to |
| 0:26.4 | openness and freedom. So we are dropping a little excerpt of her book, Read by Sharon herself. |
| 0:34.2 | So here we go now with a little chunk of real life via Sharon Salzberg. |
| 0:46.9 | Hello and welcome to the Metta Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg, where Buddhist wisdom |
| 0:54.4 | meets everyday life. My name is Lillie Kushman and I'm the longtime producer of this lovely |
| 1:02.0 | podcast. So for today's episode, we're doing something we've never done on the podcast before. |
| 1:10.2 | In honor of the release of Sharon's new book Real Life, which comes out April 11th, |
| 1:17.9 | today is an hour long excerpt of the Real Life audiobook. This is about one hour of maybe eight |
| 1:27.4 | in total and it is the introduction to the book as well as the first chapter. So for you, our |
| 1:36.0 | podcast listeners, it felt like a perfect way to bring the book to you, to bring it to life. |
| 1:42.9 | It's such a personal way of encountering a book to hear it in the author's own voice and emphasis. |
| 1:51.2 | So we're just really excited to bring it to you today. And before we get to the episode, |
| 1:57.7 | a couple of quick announcements. The first is that you've got about one day left to pre-order |
| 2:05.4 | the book Real Life. It comes out April 11th and just a reminder, anyone who pre-orders, you can get |
| 2:13.2 | two free guided meditations. Just go to SharonSalsberg.com and you'll get a couple of MP3s. |
| 2:22.0 | And also we have the book launch that's happening on April 11th. This is a virtual event that's hosted |
| 2:31.6 | the Insight Meditations Society and their wonderful book club that's something that's |
| 2:38.4 | developed over the past few years in the COVID era. So this event is totally free to join and it's |
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