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Engaged Compassion: Opening Hearts Without Hardening in Crisis
In a world of constant connectivity and widespread suffering, how do we maintain open hearts without becoming hardened or overwhelmed? Sharon Salzberg's new series "Engaged Compassion" explores this vital question with renowned leadership coach Jerry Colonna. Together, they delve into the paradox of holding both pain and joy, navigating collective trauma, and finding the wisdom to take meaningful action in our communities. This groundbreaking conversation offers practical insights for spiritual practitioners seeking to apply Buddhist teachings in today's challenging landscape while maintaining their emotional well-being and capacity for service.
Bridge Inner Practice to Meaningful World Action
Sharon Salzberg's Real Change program teaches how to connect meditation and lovingkindness practice with effective action for the world.
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Meditation Q&A: Guided Practice, Difficult Emotions & Joy
Sharon Salzberg answers participant questions on guided meditation, processing difficult emotions, and cultivating joy and compassion in daily practice.
2K views
Meditation Practice Q&A: Building Consistency and Working With Challenges
Sharon Salzberg answers questions from Real Happiness Challenge participants about meditation practice, grief, anxiety, and sustaining daily reflection in isolation.
2K views
Launch Party: Beginning a Loving-Kindness Practice
Sharon Salzberg explores the foundations and initial steps of loving-kindness meditation, offering practical guidance for beginning a transformative contemplative practice.
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Real Happiness Meditation: Building a Daily Practice
Sharon Salzberg launches her Real Happiness Meditation Challenge, offering foundational guidance on establishing a sustainable meditation practice rooted in mindfulness and loving-kindness techniques.
Overcoming Self-Doubt Through Meditative Awareness
Discover how meditative practice helps dissolve self-imposed limitations and connects us to deeper capacities for love, wisdom, and freedom already within.
2K views
Love Your Enemies: Working with Hatred and Compassion
How to work with enemies—internal and external—and expand the boundaries of lovingkindness, compassion, and equanimity beyond what we think is possible.
3K views
Compassion Meditation After Election: Finding Common Ground
Sharon Salzberg offers a post-election compassion meditation to heal political division, reconnect with shared humanity, and build resilience through common vulnerability and interconnection.
10K views
The Four Immeasurables: Heart-Opening Practices for Daily Life
Learn the Buddhist foundations of lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity to cultivate a boundless heart and bring these practices into everyday life.
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How Insight Meditation Shifted: 40 Years of Teaching in the West
Joseph Goldstein reflects on four decades of Insight Meditation Society's evolving mission, from pure emptiness teachings to inclusive, socially-conscious dharma.
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How to Practice Lovingkindness in Traffic
Transform frustration in traffic into an opportunity for meditation and compassion. Learn Sharon Salzberg's metta practice for the road.
13K views
Lovingkindness Practice for Holiday Stress Relief
Sharon Salzberg offers a brief lovingkindness meditation to navigate holiday complexity with self-compassion. May you be safe, happy, healthy, and live with ease.
2K views
Lovingkindness in Line: Transform Daily Waiting into Meditation
Sharon Salzberg shows how to convert everyday line-waiting into a meditation practice, replacing frustration with genuine wishes for the happiness of strangers around you.
18K views
Bubble Meditation: Buddhist Impermanence as Everyday Practice
Learn how blowing bubbles becomes a meditation on impermanence and freedom, grounded in Buddhist philosophy and street lovingkindness practice.
17K views
Working with Anger in Forgiveness: Constructive vs. Destructive Patterns
Learn how to work with anger without judgment, distinguishing between constructive and destructive anger patterns to support forgiveness and freedom.
2K views
Street Lovingkindness: Offering Metta in Crowded Public Spaces
Sharon Salzberg brings the formal meditation practice of lovingkindness off the meditation cushion and into Grand Central Station, showing how to expand compassion toward strangers in everyday encounters.
32K views
Compassion in Action: Sharon Salzberg's Dalai Lama Encounter
Sharon Salzberg recalls a pivotal moment with the Dalai Lama that redefined her understanding of compassion and presence.
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Compassion & Longevity: Sharon Salzberg's Tribute to the Dalai Lama's 80th Birthday
Sharon Salzberg offers a heartfelt birthday message to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 80th birthday, centering gratitude, compassion, and the ripple effects of spiritual work.
3K views
Tara Mantra: Compassion and Devotion in Group Practice
Krishna Das leads a closing Tara group mantra at Sharon Salzberg's Love Your Enemies book launch, exploring devotional practice and collective chanting.
2K views
Saraswati Chant: Invoking Wisdom Through Sacred Mantra
Krishna Das performs the Saraswati chant at a book launch for Love Your Enemies, bringing classical mantra practice into contemporary spiritual gathering.
12K views
Compassion and Activism: Inner Practice for Outer Change
How can activists align their inner work with their outer mission? A panel of meditation teachers and social justice practitioners explores compassion as a tool for sustainable change.
3K views