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Today I speak with Sharon Salzburg, one of America's leading meditation teachers.

Sharon is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barry, Massachusetts and the author of many books, including The Kindness Handbook, as well as several sounds true audio learning programs, including faith, trusting your own deepest experience,

and guided meditations for love and wisdom.

Today we speak with Sharon in a very warm conversation about some of the insights she has had in her nearly four decades of a life of practice.

Sharon, thanks for joining us here at of a life of practice.

Sharon, thanks for joining us here at Insights at the Edge.

Well, thank you, Tammy. That's the name of our show, Insights at the Edge.

And my job is to find out what your current edge is.

Does everyone laugh when you ask them that?

No, no, no, not everybody. Some people have refused to admit that they have an edge. They don't have one. They're beyond edges.

Some people are like, why are you making me uncomfortable? You didn't tell me that was the object of this

conversation, but I'm curious just right to start off right with you. If you do feel

that there's an edge for you and what I mean by that is twofold, one sort of what you're working on

professionally that's exciting for you and then the second part what maybe is

taking your interest and attention internally. So both.

Well, externally I think I've had some amazing opportunities in pretty recent times to be working with to be teaching

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