This is my 4th year participating in Sharon’s annual Meditation Challenge. I’m honored to be blogging once again as part of it. Due in large part to this phenomenal yearly program, I have grown tremendously in my meditation and mindfulness Read More
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ON BEING COLUMN • How to Train Your Mind to Recognize the Love All Around You
How to Train Your Mind to Recognize the Love All Around You A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published February 19, 2018 All love is a deep and often wordless connection, a resonance of the soul. Love Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – Self-Love Is an Adventure, Not a Destination
Self-Love Is an Adventure, Not a Destination A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published February 13, 2018 Real love allows for failure and suffering. All of us have made real mistakes, and some of those mistakes were Read More
Looking forward
I will be on a 7 day personal retreat for part of February, so I will miss a few days. I hope to return with renewed insight and juicy substance to share. I’m grateful to have this opportunity to connect Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – How to Hold Hope Lightly
How to Hold Hope Lightly A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published January 19, 2018 In the Buddhist tradition we tend to be a little skeptical of hope, or perhaps it’s better to say we hold hope Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – How to Talk with Your Relatives Over the Holidays
How to Talk with Your Relatives Over the Holidays A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published November 17, 2017 If you are agitated about the holidays, this may be a tough place to arrive in, especially if Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – We Can’t Survive in a State of Constant Agitation
We Can’t Survive in a State of Constant Agitation A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published October 2, 2017 Yes, actions are important; they are absolutely essential, in fact. But I don’t believe we can survive for Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – Your Three Feet of Influence
Your Three Feet of Influence A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published July 14, 2017 Few people are powerful enough, persuasive, persistent, consistent, and charismatic enough to change the world all at once, but everyone has the Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – Love Doesn’t Make Us Stupid — It Makes Us Brave
Love Doesn’t Make Us Stupid — It Makes Us Brave A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published May 31st, 2017 We can move away from anxious identification with love as submissiveness or giving in. We don’t have to Read More
ON BEING COLUMN – A Standing Meditation for Self-Care
A Standing Meditation for Self-Care A Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Published May 15th, 2017 What if we replaced this notion of our essential damage with a sense of our essential capacity to love, and the need Read More
