Sharon Salzberg - Love and Wisdom
In this episode, Wendy speaks with renowned and beloved meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. Sharon has been teaching meditation in the West for over 40 years, and is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society. Their conversation covers many topics, including:\nfinding Buddhism and meditation as a teenager, and where it led her;\nher experience as a woman in the early contemplative movement;\nloving kindness & metta, and their relationship to prayer;\nlove as an ability;\nthe role of narrative and story-telling in our world and minds;\na call for balance and self-compassion on the path;\nthe role of the body in meditation;\nwhy contemplation matters for societal change;\nand living into our interconnection.\nFull show notes and resources