Sharon Salzberg: Treat Your Anger with Lovingkindness

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Sharon Salzberg (meditation pioneer, NYT bestselling author) breaks down what successful meditation looks like, how to extend lovingkindness to ourselves in the social media age, and what it really means to have compassion for our enemies while standing firm in our fight for others. She opens up about how her traumatic childhood and studying philosophy brought her to her career path today, why her first reaction to meditation was anger, the truth she has personally found in meditation, and how she managed to not allow early meditation critics to stand in her way. Sharon explains ways to combine introspection with lovingkindness, how balance and presence can lead to self-compassion, and the positives and negatives of anger. She and Mayim discuss the differences between meditation and prayer, the commercialization of meditation vs the foundation of mindfulness, the importance of slowing down to enjoy moments of happiness, and why we are more connected than we realize. Sharon reveals the role love and relationships has played in her life and shares her own personal meditation practice.

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0:00.0	The idea of love has gotten so diminished, you know, that we think of it as sentimentality
0:08.4	or weakness rather than a great force that can transform.
0:13.2	So when we talk about loving kindness, it's not determining the action we're going to
0:18.2	take.
0:19.2	Right?
0:20.2	It's determining the hearts based which we are dwelling in as you said.
0:25.0	You know, one of my friends put it about, somebody had like a grudge against that he went
0:31.1	over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, so I'd let him
0:34.4	live rent free in my brain for too long.
0:36.3	What would it be like to be free of that?
0:39.2	And that holds a different world for you genuinely son, not forcing yourself to.
0:45.4	I think it would free up a lot of energy with which to try to make a difference.
0:50.4	You know, what we're coming from a very different place and I think it's powerful, love is
0:55.0	powerful in that sense because it's based on the truth of how connected we are that we live in an
1:01.5	interconnected universe like it or not and science certainly shows us this and you know epidemiology
1:07.4	shows us this economic shows us this environmental consciousness shows us this and that's a lot of what
1:14.2	loving kindness really means you know like we acknowledge that degree of connection and the idea
1:21.0	of self and other and us and then we see as a construct but that doesn't mean you're going to
1:25.7	just let somebody behave the way they behave or not fight or not protect somebody or and that's
1:32.1	the confusion many people have you know countless people who sits me I don't know about this like
1:37.4	opening your heart thing because then I can only say yes I can only let them move back in I can
1:41.9	only give them more money I can only let them keep hurting me and I don't think it means any of
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