{"id":1590,"date":"2016-02-04T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2016-02-06T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:29:08","slug":"ssis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/ssis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Salzberg: On Bhavana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1087\" title=\"Dr Urszula Klich with Sharon Salzberg: 28 Day Meditation Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-3-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Urszula Klich with Sharon Salzberg: 28 Day Meditation Challenge\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-3-285x300.jpg 285w, http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-3-973x1024.jpg 973w, http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-3.jpg 1946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had attended Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg&#8217;s retreat before and looked forward to their outpouring of insight through storytelling, meditation, and chant. So, the anticipation of this experience brought back all sorts of warm memories of tranquility, insight, rest, and revelation. This time, over a hot cup of Chai tea, Sharon and I would chat for hours late into the night in the simple cottage. We reminisced and spoke about everything from life\u2019s mundane, everyday, joys and hassles to coping with trauma. I was privileged to hear personal stories of some of her early experiences in India while discovering meditation. The practice of Loving- Kindness has been her life&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Click to listen to Sharon Salzberg speak on Bhavana<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio width=\"300\" height=\"32\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sharon_interview_snippet_1.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had attended Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg&#8217;s retreat before and looked forward to their outpouring of insight through storytelling, meditation, and chant. So, the anticipation of this experience brought back all sorts of warm memories of tranquility, insight, rest, and revelation. This time, over a hot cup of Chai tea, Sharon and I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,53,63,79,1],"tags":[67,51],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion-meditation","category-meditation","category-meditation-challenge","category-sharon-salzberg","category-uncategorized","tag-conversations-with-sharon","tag-sharon-salzberg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2YyuX-ssis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}