Ep. 9 – It's All About Relationship
Sharon details her origin story in relation to mindfulness practice and describes the different approaches we can take in integrating meditation into our lives. The core teaching begins with the recog...
7 Feb 201549min
Ep. 8 – Love is Space
‘Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space’. Sharon uses this quote, from the Buddha, to emphasize the value in creating a vast and loving space from which we can operate. This cultiv...
5 Jan 201534min
Ep. 7 – Aspirations
What is it that we are really looking for from our lives, and do we have the ability to approach these aspirations with genuine confidence? In meditation, we get to redefine happiness, and look critic...
22 Dec 201429min
Ep. 6 – Foundations of Forgiveness
Through Loving Kindness we sense our deep connection to the world around us. From that awareness arises compassion, which recognizes suffering, on all levels, and responds accordingly. Loving kindness...
4 Dec 201424min
Ep. 5 – The Eightfold Path
Sharon is joined by her longtime friend, and fellow MindPod patron, Raghu Markus, for a thoughtful and thorough discussion of the principles involved in the Buddhist teaching of the Eightfold Path, as...
18 Nov 201445min
Ep. 4 – The Brahma Viharas
In this talk, from the 2010 Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat, Sharon discusses the four virtues, known within the Buddhist tradition as the Brahma Viharas, as well as the meditation practices desig...
28 Okt 201439min
Ep. 3 – Faith and Loving Kindness
Within Buddhism, Faith is not held as a commodity, but is actually experienced as a journey that we embark upon. It becomes necessary to explore and investigate the insight surrounding this extraordin...
1 Okt 201442min
Ep. 2 – Meditation
Taken from the 2010 Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat, Sharon relates the act of meditation to an alchemical process in which we convert the conceptual into the felt presence of direct experience. T...
29 Sep 201436min
