Mindfulness Meditation · Love
This week’s meditation session is led by Sharon Salzberg and the theme is Love. The guided meditation begins at 16:24.
Stemmed Offering Bowl; Nepal; mid 20th century; silver; Rubin Museum of Art, gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin; SC2012.7.6.1
Offering bowls are usually kept very clean, with freshwater poured in each day and poured out at the end of the day. Traditionally eight bowls are arranged in a row, evenly spaced and about a quarter of an inch apart. Sometimes saffron is added to the water in the bowls to make it fragrant and pleasing to the senses. Attention to such details is an expression of shila, or discipline, and helps to focus and calm the mind of the practitioner.
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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