I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

Hi everyone and welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. I'm with a really remarkable woman. Her name is Sharon Salzburg and if that name sounds familiar it's because you've probably read some of her books.

Real happiness, real love, loving kindness, the revolutionary art of happiness, and a heart as wide as the world.

Now from the titles of those books, you can tell that this is a woman with an incredibly massive heart. So Sharon has spoken and thought at a variety of

events and conferences worldwide on everything from meditation to mindfulness to loving kindness

meditation. She's a remarkable speaker, a remarkable writer, and one of the

pioneers of the Western world's oldest and most respected meditation retreat centers.

So Sharon, it is so great to have you on the Mind Valley Podcast.

Well, thank you so much. Really, it's a delight. Now one of the things you

said Sharon in your book Real Happiness which I read many years ago that beautiful

red book was this real happiness according to you is the ability to self-generate a

sense of stability and presence and love and find the source of happiness not

dependent on conditions.

A happiness, you said, too dependent upon external factors,

leaves us devastated when it goes away.

Now I'd love to pick this up as a topic because it's so

fascinating. Happiness is such a fascinating topic, but you combine it, you don't

just preach happiness, you give people a tool to auto generate it.

Let's talk about that.

Well, I think that's really the crucial thing.

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