How to Cultivate Lovingkindness with Sharon Salzberg
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sharon Salzberg is one of the worlds best know Buddhist teachers and a leader in meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas). She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
In this episode, Eric and Sharon discuss her book Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.
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Sharon Salzberg and I Discuss How to Bring Lovingkindness to Your Life …
- Her book, Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.
- Lovingkindess is the fundamental sense of connectedness to ourselves and each other
- Compassion is recognizing the universal vulnerability of ourselves and each other
- The fundamental teaching of “everyone wants to be happy“
- Remembering that it’s never to late to make a change
- How the mind is naturally radiant and pure
- The “visitors” that obscure our mind
- The essential question of asking what we really need to be happy
- How mindfulness is about training to find “the place in the middle”
- Balancing repression and indulgence in our emotions
- Whether Buddhism teaches that desire is the core problem
- Making decisions from a “climate of wisdom”
- The four types of enemies (outer, inner, secret, and most secret)
- How to deal with these enemies
- The importance of setting intentions
- Watching our thoughts like an elderly person watches children in a park
- How the difference between happiness and misery depends on where we place our attention.
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| 0:00.0 | In case you're just recently joining us, or however long you've been a listener of the show, |
| 0:04.4 | you may not realize that we have years and years of incredible episodes in our archive. |
| 0:09.4 | We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided to handpick one of our favorites that |
| 0:14.0 | may be new to you, but if not, it's definitely worth another listen. We hope you'll enjoy this episode |
| 0:20.0 | with Sharon Salzburg. You can learn how to start over, you can learn how to begin again, and |
| 0:25.4 | that's the most important thing. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great |
| 0:38.4 | thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, |
| 0:43.6 | garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't |
| 0:49.7 | strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't |
| 0:57.4 | have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not |
| 1:03.3 | just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make |
| 1:09.3 | a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right |
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| 2:04.8 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is Sharon Salzberg, one of the world's best-known |
| 2:09.4 | Buddhist teachers and a leader in meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive |
| 2:16.2 | awareness practice, viposna or insight meditation, and the profound cultivation of loving kindness and |
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