Sharon Salzberg Interview | The FitMind Podcast

Sharon Salzberg is a world-famous meditation teacher and NY Times bestselling author.
She's largely responsible for popularizing mindfulness in the West.
She leads a loving-kindness guided meditation at the beginning or skip to the conversation below 👇 where we discuss her training with legendary teachers in Asia, the most sublime states of mind and how to achieve them, and the psychology of real love, and how this differs from conditional love.
0:00 Sharon explains loving-kindness meditation style
3:35 Sharon leads a loving-kindness meditation
11:13 Sharon speaks about her training in Asia
20:13 Explanation of brahmaviharas
29:38 Sublime states of mind backed by neuroscience
36:17 Psychology of real love vs. conditional love
42:32 Sharon asks the Dalai Lama about "self-hatred"
46:00 Rapid-fire questions
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