Tapping into Our Basic Goodness
How meditation can strengthen our innate capacities for compassion and wisdom
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a founding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Her latest book is Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom. She teaches the Tricycle online courses The Whole Path, Real Love, and The Boundless Heart.
Featured Articles
Finding Belonging in the Body
Dharma teacher Sebene Selassie discusses why we are divided from ourselves and each other—and how we can find belonging even in the midst of conflict and contradiction.
The Slow Upward Spiral of Grief
Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor discusses the challenges of rediscovering a sense of purpose in the wake of loss.
Latest Articles
Navigating Conflict in Relationships
How mindfulness and patience can help us to transform our anger and cultivate healthier connections
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Self-Talk
An excerpt of a conversation between George Mumford, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg
Pure Activity
How letting go of perfectionism can help us get out of our own way—and can free us up to show up in the world
This Precious Human Life
A grief psychologist explores how loss can orient us toward our capacity for connection—and how distress can motivate us to examine what really matters.
The Creative Enterprise of Being Human
Palliative care physician BJ Miller reflects on his own near-death experience and what we can learn from treating recovery as a creative act.
Imagining a World Without Bias
How mindfulness and compassion practices can help us recognize our fundamental ignorance of our interconnectedness
Online Courses
Online Course
Buddhist Personality Types
Buddhist tradition names three personality types that are refined through meditation and understanding as we heal and grow. This course invites you to better relate your own unique experience in a way that uncovers the purified gems of your unique personality type.
Online Course
Real Life
This is a six-part online course about the journey from isolation and contraction to connection and expansion. Enroll today to walk this path with Sharon beginning November 13.
Online Course
The Whole Path: Kindness, Meditation, and Wisdom
Have you wondered what the purpose of mindfulness really is? What is it that meditators awaken to? How does being kind to others promote our own wellbeing? Walk a path to freedom of mind and heart with Sharon Salzberg's new online course.
Online Course
The Boundless Heart
It takes courage to open your heart—and it also takes practice. Join bestselling author and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg in The Boundless Heart, an eight-week course on Buddhism's Four Immeasurables: lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this carefully structured program, Sharon will offer practical methods for bringing these heart-opening qualities, so fundamental to the Buddhist path, into your everyday life.
Online Course
Real Love
Far from being an idealistic, sentimental, or romantic emotion, genuine love is an ability and capacity within us—an inner resource we can grow. Drawing from timeless Buddhist wisdom and lovingkindness practice, we'll train in cultivating unconditional love for ourselves, those close to us, and ultimately for all beings.
Podcasts
Opening to Freedom
In this episode of Life As It Is, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg lays out a path toward what she calls “real life,” or a life of spaciousness and freedom.
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Real Change: Meditation and Action
In this episode, Tricycle’s Editor and Publisher James Shaheen speaks to Sharon Shalzberg about the making of her new book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and Our World, and how her meditation practice provides an emotional anchor in difficult times.
This month, Tricycle Talks is releasing five podcasts featuring people who are creating change in their communities. Stay tuned for episodes with four other changemakers—Shelly Tygielski, Michael Kink, Daisy Hernández, and Arian Moayed—who are using their unique platforms to bring about real change in the world.
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Breaking Down Love to Practice It in Each Moment
Love isn’t just a feeling, says meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. It’s an ability.
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Real Happiness at Work
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, contributing editor Amy Gross speaks with renowned meditation teacher and best-selling author Sharon Salzberg. Co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, Salzberg was among the first to bring mindfulness meditation practice to the West. Her new book, Real Happiness at Work, helps us cultivate mindfulness, compassion and awareness at work. In this podcast, Gross and Salzberg speak on the practices that can help us bring these qualities into our workplace and infuse our work with greater meaning.
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Dharma Talks
Real Happiness: A 28-Day Meditation Program
Sharon Salzberg offers a distilled and comprehensive guide to meditation, from the basics of posture, breathing, and scheduling to the finer points of calming the mind, distraction, and addressing specific problems such as body pains and…
Real Happiness at Work
In this retreat, Sharon Salzberg offers meditations for accomplishment, achievement, and peace in the work place. Guiding us through practices that have application in both the professional and personal realms, she outlines an attitude to achieve…
The Five Hindrances
The Five Hindrances are obstacles that arise in our meditation practice—and in our lives—that throw us into confusion. They are: Desire, Aversion, Laziness, Restlessness, and Doubt. Each of them has its own way of knocking us…
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