Friday evening lecture: Lovingkindness is a meditation that cultivates our natural capacity for an open and loving heart. It is traditionally offered with meditations that enrich compassion, and joy in the happiness of others, and also deepen our own sense of peace. These practices lead to the development of concentration, connection, fearlessness, and genuine happiness. Sharon Salzberg will introduce these teachings and support us in our own experience and cultivation of these qualities through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern idiom. There will also be an opportunity for your questions.

Saturday workshop:  “ Meditation: Tools for Awakening Courage, Faith and Compassion”   This program focuses on the practical tools that help us go beyond our constricting habitual patterns, such as fear and denial. Awakening the inner capacities we all have, meditation allows us to transform our worldview from one of isolation and confusion to one of connection, clarity and compassion. Especially in times of uncertainty, meditation opens us to a power of faith and courage based on seeing things just as they are. Suitable for both new and experienced meditators, the program will consist of guided meditations, talks and time for questions and answers.

More About Sharon Salzberg

Sharon has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, and has been leading meditation retreats and teaching worldwide since 1974. She teaches about both awareness practice (Vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of loving kindness and compassion. One of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of Vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (loving kindness) are the foundations of her work.

Various anthologies on spirituality have featured Sharon and her work, including Meetings with Remarkable Women, Gifts of the Spirit, A Complete Guide to Buddhist America, Handbook of the Heart, The Best Guide to Meditation, From the Ashes – a Spiritual response to the Attack on America, and How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism.

She is currently a contributing editor of Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine, and has appeared in Time Magazine, Yoga Journal, msnbc.com, Tricycle, Real Simple, Body & Soul, Mirabella, Good Housekeeping, Self, Buddhadharma, More and Shambhala Sun, as well as on a variety of radio programs.

Books by Sharon include:

The Kindness Handbook “There’s a warmth to Sharon Salzberg, both in person and in her writing, and it’s this warmth that comes through in her newest book, The Kindness Handbook. The text is simply written and is straightforward, yet it implies a depth of understanding that belies its surface simplicity. The book is a collection of short essays and anecdotes giving us a foundation and definition for kindness, both for ourselves and others, and then encouragement and guidance on how to take kindness out into the world and into our lives. -- ShambalaSun.com       Ordering Information

The Force of Kindness

Faith, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Sharon's Web Site
 

Continuing Education Authorization has been applied for:

This activity has been planned, designed, and implemented by Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development in accordance with the International Association for Continuing Education & Training ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard (the American national standard for continuing education).

Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. In obtaining this approval, Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard, which is widely recognized as the Standard of good practice internationally. As a result of their Authorized Provider membership status, Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard.