# Sharon Salzberg - Love and Wisdom

An episode of [Mind & Life](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1504112670), 9 Sep 2022, 59 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e6v2if/SharonSalzberg_220831_AIR.mp3

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: • finding Buddhism and meditation as a teenager, and where it led her; • her experience as a woman in the early contemplative movement; • loving kindness & metta, and their relationship to prayer; • love as an ability; • the role of narrative and story-telling in our world and minds; • a call for balance and self-compassion on the path; • the role of the body in meditation; • why contemplation matters for societal change; • and living into our interconnection. Full show notes and resources

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