35 min

Sharon Salzberg: How I found kindness as my compass Meditative Story

    • Society & Culture

By the time Sharon Salzberg is 16 years old, she knows the people around her don’t admit to suffering, much less talk about it. A year later, she makes a life-changing decision to travel alone to India to study meditation. It doesn’t all go as expected. Through the journey’s disappointments, discomforts, and surprise lessons, she finds an unexpected friend: herself. In today’s Meditative Story, Sharon talks about how being kind, especially to herself, became her biggest mountain to climb.

Learn more about Sharon:

Website: sharonsalzberg.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sharonsalzberg

Twitter: www.twitter.com/sharonsalzberg

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SharonSalzberg

YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/SharonSalzbergVideo

Medium: www.medium.com/@sharonsalzberg

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsalzberg

If this episode resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you. Please take a moment to share your reflections by rating and reviewing Meditative Story in your podcast player. It helps other listeners find their way to show, and we’d be so grateful.

Each episode of Meditative Story combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with immersive music and gentle mindfulness prompts. Read the transcript for this story: meditativestory.com

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By the time Sharon Salzberg is 16 years old, she knows the people around her don’t admit to suffering, much less talk about it. A year later, she makes a life-changing decision to travel alone to India to study meditation. It doesn’t all go as expected. Through the journey’s disappointments, discomforts, and surprise lessons, she finds an unexpected friend: herself. In today’s Meditative Story, Sharon talks about how being kind, especially to herself, became her biggest mountain to climb.

Learn more about Sharon:

Website: sharonsalzberg.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sharonsalzberg

Twitter: www.twitter.com/sharonsalzberg

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SharonSalzberg

YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/SharonSalzbergVideo

Medium: www.medium.com/@sharonsalzberg

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsalzberg

If this episode resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you. Please take a moment to share your reflections by rating and reviewing Meditative Story in your podcast player. It helps other listeners find their way to show, and we’d be so grateful.

Each episode of Meditative Story combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with immersive music and gentle mindfulness prompts. Read the transcript for this story: meditativestory.com

Sign up for the Meditative Story newsletter: https://meditativestory.com/subscribe

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

35 min

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