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Fireside Chats with Sharon Salzberg will function IMS’s co-founder because the host of casual stay talks about observe with members of IMS’s sangha.
The hour-long glimpses into the struggles and rewards of a life devoted to the Dharma will cowl topics just like the highs and lows these practitioners have skilled on the mat, how their academics have influenced them, the challenges they’ve confronted in navigating up to date life, and a number of the methods they’ve found to satisfy these challenges.
The first visitor within the collection will likely be one other IMS co-founder and a good friend of Sharon’s for 50+ years, Jack Kornfield, writer of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry and co-founder of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, California.
This dialog is anticipated to be wide-ranging, in-depth, and private, provided that Sharon and Jack met as academics and practitioners at Naropa University within the early Seventies and guided IMS by way of its early days collectively.
The impetus for the collection arose from a public dialogue between Sharon and Sylvia Boorstein that felt to Sharon as if she was chatting with a great good friend in her lounge by a hearth, consuming tea, relaxed and intimate. The Fireside Chats collection, which will likely be recorded each month or two for the following 12 months with a wide range of company, are designed to recreate that environment.
The viewers may even have the possibility to ask questions of Jack and Sharon. So when you’ve ever been inquisitive about how IMS got here to be, how Sharon and Jack turned two of its guiding lights, how they observe, or what they’ve skilled as meditators, founders, authors, or academics, the upcoming occasion is a must-see.
And when you can’t attend the stay occasion, you possibly can watch the recording for 90 days.
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A Fireside Chat with Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
2:30 – 4:00 PM ET
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a pioneer within the subject of meditation, a world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling writer. She has performed a pivotal function in bringing meditation and mindfulness to mainstream American tradition since 1974. Sharon is co-founder of IMS and has authored 12 books. Acclaimed for her relatable instructing model, Sharon presents a secular, trendy method to Buddhist teachings. Sharon is the host of the podcast, The Metta Hour, with 100+ episodes that includes interviews with the highest leaders and voices within the meditation and mindfulness motion. Learn extra at www.sharonsalzberg.com.
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield educated as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. He holds a Ph.D. in scientific psychology and is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in addition to Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He is likely one of the key academics to introduce mindfulness observe to the West, has taught internationally since 1974 and is the writer of 16 books which have bought 2 million copies. Alice Walker as soon as referred to as him one of many nice non secular academics of our time. Learn extra at www.jackkornfield.com.
