Sharon Salzberg On: Openness & Not Believing the Stories You Tell Yourself | Podcast Episode 582

[@monarich5445]

Thanks both of you, wonderful interview! Sharon, I love the clarity you bring to the understanding of living a rich, meaningful life!! I can’t wait to read your book! Grateful!

[@JaimeGlasser]

Wonderful wonderful talk, thank you. A a Jew I have ALWAYS wondered why we gravitate to mindfulness and meditation ! I have attended Institute For Jewish Spirituality classes with my mom. I teach and facilitate MBSR and am enrolled in the MMTCP program now. I went to Rabbinical school for 1 year and actually at one point became Christian because unconditional love seemed missing. But then studying Buddhism and meditating for many years found that self compassion and the unconditional love was missing! I think we Jews not only had tendencies to neurosis and anxiety but genius! (Statistically) and I think it comes from being (unlike other religions) personally and morally responsible for our own ethical choices ! And the ceremonial aspects did not answer needs . And self compassion seemed also non existent. Thank you so much for this great talk!

[@siddhartha-1-4-u]

nice interview as usual...also recommend getting Phil Stutz or his co-author on the book The Tools, and another one also, as they'd fit well on the show.

[@MsMars.]

The hyper-negative ppl who made comments here clearly didn't *listen* to the discussion between these two presenters.

[@TenPercentHappier]

We appreciate your positive vibes!

[@sharonhall1909]

The ads are annoying.

[@chadreilly]

OK, here's my review. Isn't she kind of proof that mindfulness, and mouthing spiritual jargon, doesn't really cut it? She talks like she has a dissociative disorder, which is unfortunate, but some part of me wonders if too much mindfulness doesn't cause/make it worse, as you sit "outside yourself" and "monitor". She even says her anger came on in a retreat. BTW, panic attacks are very physical fitness oriented, and sitting on your butt makes your fitness worse. It's not all in the mind people. Pubmed isn't immediately verifying her citations with regards to Barbara Fredrickson on peripheral vision or dishwashing. Maybe that's a problem, if you guys use things in your books without looking them up. Wait, Dan, you're still having panic attacks? You still have a therapist? Aren't YOU proof? Anyway, what I was saying about sitting. I imagine there's a fair amount of audience capture here, but might both of you consider you're missing something fairly obvious, clear to someone with a "wider awareness" (you know, outside the Buddhist system)? I hate to seem purely negative, but you guys (meaning this whole channel) is y'all just yessing each other.

[@TenPercentHappier]

We appreciate your feedback!

[@CowCowDee]

Mindfulness and meditation isn’t a magical cure-all. It eases your suffering, it doesn’t end it

[@chadreilly]

@@CowCowDee Proponents do seem to claim meditation is magical, leads to enlightenment, eternal bliss, or whatever. Meanwhile I'm faulting it for not being a cure for much of anything. A partial cure maybe, sometimes. And taken too far, not only isn't helpful, is in fact bad for you.

[@MsMars.]

The hyper-negative ppl who made comments here clearly didn't listen to the discussion between these two presenters.

[@MsMars.]

The hyper-negative ppl who made comments here clearly didn't listen to the discussion between these two presenters.