Sharon Salzberg Audio & Video

Now as I look more deeply into lovingkindness, I find that it actually rests on another foundation, the expression of faith.

In this interview from MeaningOfLife.tv, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society Sharon Salzberg talks about her spiritual path while introducing listener's to many concepts of Buddhist practice.

The Metta Hour podcast is focused on the work of Buddhist meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg, and features her talks to a live audience during various retreats.

Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm.

In this talk Sharon Salzberg looks at meditation not as a religious practice but as a skill that can be learned much like any other skill. She tells many stories from her over 20 years of teaching meditation and creating the Insight Meditation Society.

The number of Buddhist meditation centers in North America has doubled in little more than a decade, confirming the ever-widening appeal of this ancient approach to inner peace and self-understanding.

How would you like to be calmer, less distracted, more productive, and more content at your job? You might think it would take more hours in the day, a better boss, more support, less interference, a shorter commute - and the list goes on.

Most of us are well aware of the benefits of meditation, and new research is providing us with more and more evidence of what the world's spiritual traditions have known for years: meditation can positively impact every area of our lives.

From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world.

Within your own heart is a limitless source of supreme energy the energy of love.