Sharon Salzberg
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Sharon Salzberg about the essential question
Sharon Salzberg is one of the worlds best know Buddhist teachers and has been leading 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.
She is the author of many books including the New York Times Best Seller, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier with Robert Thurman, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Sharon's latest book is Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.
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In This Interview Sharon and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
Her view on Lovingkindness after teaching about it f0r 20 years
Understanding the ways that we are all connected to each other
The difference between lovingkindness and compassion
Idiot Compassion
That lovingkindness and compassion don't equate to weakness
The fundamental teaching "Everyone wants to be happy"
How it's never to late to make a change
Life lessons manifesting during meditation
Avoiding the all or nothing mindset
How nothing stays the same, especially our mindset
How the mind is naturally radiant and pure
The "visitors" that obscure our mind
How what we resist persists
The essential question to ask ourselves
Balancing repression and indulgence in our emotions
How mindfulness is sometimes called "The Place In The Middle"
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| 0:00.0 | You can learn how to start over, you can learn how to begin again and that's the most important thing. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have |
| 0:20.1 | quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:30.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:37.6 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. |
| 0:44.4 | It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:49.3 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:38.1 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is Sharon Salisberg, one of the world's best known Buddhist teachers and a leader in meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. |
| 1:48.0 | She teaches both intensive awareness practice, vipasna or insight meditation and the profound cultivation of loving kindness and compassion. |
| 1:56.9 | She is a co-founder of the insight meditation society in bar Massachusetts and the bar center for Buddhist studies. |
| 2:04.2 | Sharon's latest book is Real Happiness at Work, Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement and Peace. |
| 2:11.0 | I should also mention that we have a few spots that just opened up in the one-on-one program with Eric. |
| 2:16.8 | If you've been wondering whether or not the program is right for you, this may help. |
| 2:20.0 | This is what Anthony, one of Eric's former coaching clients, said when he was asked what he got out of the program. |
| 2:26.0 | He helped me rethink the way I was approaching my own problems by just asking me questions and it was really easy to talk to him. |
| 2:35.0 | He was super insightful. There was things where I would tell my problems and he would just tell me these tiny little things. |
| 2:41.0 | Like, hey, what if you thought of it this way instead? |
| 2:43.6 | And it would just like be totally mind-blowing. He just had a very nice way of looking at things. |
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