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On "On Being" this week, congenial host Krista Tippett talks with Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman on "Embracing Our Enemies and Our Suffering." These two legendary American teachers shine a Buddhist light on a classic Christian teaching: love of enemies. Thurman and Salzberg are working together on how we relate to that which makes us feel embattled from without as well, and more importantly, from within. [Why is
within more important? What we express is what is inside of us. So when we change our mind, our body and speech follow.]
Embracing our enemies? Sharon Salzberg is a Theravada Buddhist meditation teacher and the cofounder of the
Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is the co-author, with Robert Thurman, of
Love Your Enemies. [Who are our "real" enemies? Surely not people and fellow living beings. Rather, if we look underneath the surface to the
root of things, the radical (from the Latin,
radix, "root") understanding is that it is defilements of the heart/mind like greed, hatred/fear, and delusion that are our real enemies.] Salzberg's other books include
Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation, and the forthcoming Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.
Salzberg, a pioneering Buddhist teacher of meditation in the US, answers On Being's in-house
"wannabe" mindfulness practitioner's questions: techniques and focus, the balance of new technologies with human connection.
Robert Thurman, a close personal friend and supporter of the 14th Dalai Lama, is professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He is also the president of
Tibet House US. [But his most celebrated accomplishment may be his co-creation of actress Uma Thurman.] He is the co-author of
Love Your Enemies. His other books include
Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within, and
Inner Revolution.
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