Susan Piver: The 4 Noble Truths of Love.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Susan Piver (http://susanpiver.com/) is the New York Times best-selling author of 9 books, a speaker, and founder of the largest virtual mindfulness community in the world, The Open Heart Project. She has been featured on Oprah, TODAY, CNN, speaks around the world and leads teachings and retreats on Buddhism, meditation, relationships and the essential practices for a life well-lived.
In her most recent book, The Four Noble Truths of Love, (https://amzn.to/2laMDxV) she offers a powerful set of tools to reimagine and better navigate long-term, loving relationships in a way that respects each person's individual truth, while making space for a living, evolving container for love.
In our podcast conversation this week, Piver shares the eye-opening revelation that brought her to the Four Noble Truths of Love, then walks us through each one. She reveals the genesis of this work, her own 20-year marriage, her struggle with attachment to "what was" and the innately human need to contain and define and preserve it. And, she shares her awakening to how trying to lock something living and breathing and changing into the confines of something simple and clean and certain can only lead to suffering, while the opposite just might lead to freedom and a deepening sense of connection.
To watch to Piver's incredible journey from Austin bartender to music industry exec to bestselling author to Shambhala meditation teacher, check out our earlier conversation here (http://www.goodlifeproject.com/video/mindfulness-serendipity-and-the-unplanned-life/).
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| 0:00.0 | I love it's a word we love. We love the word we love the feeling. We love the romance. We love |
| 0:11.0 | the falling in love phase of love. We love to stay in that place for as long as possible. We love to |
| 0:16.0 | believe that that can be the eternity and perpetuity of our relationships and yet the reality is |
| 0:24.7 | as we deepen into loving relationships over time things change. Question is what do we do about that? |
| 0:32.4 | What do we do with that? And when we feel things when relationships with significant others with |
| 0:39.6 | partners with spouses when we feel these things where we really don't want to acknowledge that we |
| 0:45.8 | feel them and we're not supposed to be feeling them and what happened to the mad love rather than |
| 0:51.2 | saying, well, I guess it's just not there anymore rather than saying this signifies an end rather |
| 0:56.2 | than saying this is something that needs to be fixed. What if there is a radically different approach |
| 1:02.0 | to cultivating deeply meaningful rewarding, nourishing, rejuvenating long-term loving relationships? |
| 1:11.5 | Well, that's where we're going with today's guest Susan Piver. Susan is a dear and old friend of mine. |
| 1:17.2 | She is a multiple-time best-selling author and Shambhala Buddhist meditation teacher speaker. |
| 1:24.3 | And she latched onto this topic of love and shares stories of how in her own personal relationship and |
| 1:33.0 | her marriage, which is going on 20 years now, they hit a window where just everything was going wrong. |
| 1:39.1 | And she didn't know what to do or where to turn and a voice inside of her said start at the beginning. |
| 1:45.3 | And that led her back to some Buddhist teachers which are profoundly relevant to all of us |
| 1:52.4 | in the way that we can build, rebuild and sustain deeply loving and meaningful relationships. |
| 1:59.3 | That has led to a really powerful new book called The Four Noble Truths of Love. |
| 2:05.7 | And we kind of dive into those truths and I have to tell you, my eyes were opened in a lot of ways. |
| 2:12.7 | I found understanding and some of these ideas that shed light on so much of what happens |
| 2:19.1 | in my own relationship, my own long-standing marriage. And this actually goes beyond those immediate |
| 2:25.3 | relationships to long-standing, 11 relationships with friends, with family. So super excited to share |
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