Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg
Religion & Spirituality:Buddhism
Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn joins Sharon Salzberg for a discussion on present moment awareness, radical love, and freedom from pain.
For episode 203 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we have the first in a special series celebrating Sharon’s new book, “Real Life.” This interview features a conversation between Sharon and Jon Kabat-Zinn, pulled from the Living An Authentic Life Summit. Jon is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, and its world-renown Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic. He is the author of 15 books, including the bestseller Full Catastrophe Living. His latest book published in 2023 is Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life.
The conversation begins with Jon leading a guided meditation practice, followed by a dynamic interview in which Jon and Sharon discuss:
• Jon’s first exposure to meditation
• mindfulness as a love affair
• what is authentic living
• translating ancient teaching of the Buddha
• Jon’s early teaching at UMass
• freeing ourselves from delusion
• waking up in every moment
• the compassion in mindfulness
• finding freedom from pain
To learn more about Jon’s work, teaching schedule, and latest book, Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, you can visit his website. To hear this interview in its entirety, you can sign up right here for the Living an Authentic Life Summit which runs online from March 29th – April 2nd and it is free to join.
“When you tune into yourself, you’re actually tuning into the entire universe, of which you are an intimate and insanely beautiful and mysterious part.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
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