Meditation Meditation Month 2020
How to Forgive: A Meditation
There is a way to forgive others without denying your own suffering.
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
MeditationMagazine | Mental Discipline
What is Metta Meditation?
Discovering your capacity for lovingkindness
Sticking with It
How to sustain your meditation practice
Latest Articles
A Guide to Changing How We Relate to Difficult Emotions
In an excerpt from her new online course, “Real Life,” Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg provides strategies for dealing with intrusive thoughts and painful mind states.
Nurturing the Energy for Change
According to meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer, rest and curiosity can empower radical acts of resistance.
Personal Reflections Relationships
There Is No Yesterday and No Tomorrow
Artist Jenny Odell on how paying attention can break us out of linear time
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Drop by Drop
Cultivating wholesome qualities one moment at a time
CultureMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Limitless Delights
An excerpt from a conversation between poet Ross Gay, Tricycle's editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg
Personal Reflections Illness & Care
Inviting Everything into the Room
A palliative care physician reflects on how his Buddhist practice has transformed his ability to accompany patients through illness and death.
Online Courses
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.
Listen Now on Tricycle | iTunes | SoundCloud
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.
Listen Now on Tricycle | iTunes | SoundCloud
Breaking Down Love to Practice It in Each Moment
Love isn’t just a feeling, says meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. It’s an ability.
Listen Now on Tricycle | iTunes | SoundCloud
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.
Listen Now on Tricycle | iTunes | SoundCloud
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…
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