Sharon Salzberg is an American author and meditation teacher. She is cofounder of Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, and the host of the podcast The Metta Hour.
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What does faith mean to a Buddhist? Zen teacher Norman Fischer talks with Sharon Salzberg about the conclusions she draws in her new book, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience.
Sharon invokes the joyous freedom of "Blowing Bubbles" in the second video of her STREET LOVINGKINDNESS VIDEO SERIES. The Buddha said, “life is like bubbles in the stream.” Sharon uses this classical Buddhist inspiration to playfully explore life with wonder and curiosity.
The Buddha spoke of five ways that we can nurture and protect the seeds of truth that we have planted.
Does anyone like to wait in line? It’s annoying getting stuck at the post office or waiting endlessly in line at the store. Sharon takes these moments of stress and transforms them with Loving-kindness in her new video "Standing in Line".
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The Buddha spoke about five ways to protect ourselves and our practice.
Sharon tells her story and discusses Metta for people of all experience levels. Upfront and frank. - A Meditation - A great Question-and-Answer session - It includes ways of relating to the political upheaval in the United States.
The path of the Buddha is called the middle path because, as well as avoiding extremes of behavior, it avoids two extreme views.
Can we be discerning about whether or not we acted skillfully, without deciding that praise means we have nothing to learn, or any blame at all means we've failed utterly?
And that in essence is what unplugging is about -- not hating our habits of news consumption or social discourse -- but being willing to experiment with our time and attention, the core treasures of our lives.
When we think about generosity, most of us probably don’t think immediately of a powerful force, an inner resource, a real tool for changing how we relate to ourselves, to others and to our world.
Photo Credit: Photograph by Christopher Michel / Distributed under the CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic license
