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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Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein discuss compassion and the opening of the heart as a nonsectarian universal wisdom for people of all backgrounds.
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Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world’s top performers.
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In a way, we all deserve to be happy. That includes you. And as I came to learn, that includes me.
Can compassion be learned? The answer is yes! Sometimes, all it takes is truly paying attention to the people around us. Narrated by Sharon Salzberg. Animation by Katy Davis (Gobblynne).
As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives.
It takes strong insight and often a good deal of courage to break away from our habitual ways of looking at things, to be able to respond from a different place.
Panel with Kristin Neff, Sharon Salzberg, and Brother David Steindl-Rast at Wisdom 2.0 2014
In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask worldwide meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, about her life’s work and what role compassion may have played.
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher and author. She is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, and has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West.
Photo Credit: Photograph by Christopher Michel / Distributed under the CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic license
