Mindfulness Meditation · Hopes and Anxieties
This week’s meditation session is led by Sharon Salzberg and the theme is Hopes and Anxieties. The guided meditation begins at 17:30.
A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful; Candy Chang and James A. Reeves; Interactive sculpture; Dimensions variable
The image depicts a card selected from A Monument to the Anxious and Hopeful, which was on view at the Rubin Museum in 2018. Created by artist Candy Chang and writer James A. Reeves, the installation invited visitors to write down the reasons why they are hopeful or anxious. After writing down their hopes and anxieties on separate cards, they placed them on the hopeful side (blue) or the anxious side (red). This participation made the Monument a constantly shifting, growing, and changing installation as it reflected visitors’ greatest hopes and biggest anxieties.
Sharon Salzberg, Cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, has guided meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Her latest books are Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom and Finding Your Way: Meditations, Thoughts, and Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life. She is a weekly columnist for On Being, a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and the author of several other books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Ms. Salzberg has been a regular participant in the Rubin’s many on-stage conversations and regards the Rubin as a supplemental office.
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