How to Cultivate Lovingkindness with Sharon Salzberg

<p>Sharon Salzberg is one of the worlds best know Buddhist teachers and a leader in 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.</p> <p>In this episode, Eric and Sharon discuss her book <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780761168997">R</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780761168997">eal Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.</a></p> <p>But wait, there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. <a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. </a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you</p> <p>Sharon Salzberg and I Discuss How to Bring Lovingkindness to Your Life …</p> <ul> <li>Her book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780761168997">R</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780761168997">eal Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.</a></li> <li>Lovingkindess is the fundamental sense of connectedness to ourselves and each other</li> <li>Compassion is recognizing the universal vulnerability of ourselves and each other</li> <li>The fundamental teaching of “everyone wants to be happy“</li> <li>Remembering that it’s never to late to make a change</li> <li>How the mind is naturally radiant and pure</li> <li>The “visitors” that obscure our mind</li> <li>The essential question of asking what we really need to be happy</li> <li>How mindfulness is about training to find “the place in the middle”</li> <li>Balancing repression and indulgence in our emotions</li> <li>Whether Buddhism teaches that desire is the core problem</li> <li>Making decisions from a “climat