Emotional
What if kindness toward yourself isn't soft?
Sending yourself good wishes sounds like something printed on a greeting card. But Salzberg's core claim about lovingkindness is more unsettling than comforting: it asks you to stay close to the feelings you most want to avoid.
In lovingkindness practice, we don't try to manufacture a feeling. We plant the intention, like a seed, and see what happens.— Sharon Salzberg
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Pioneer of Lovingkindness Meditation
Sharon Salzberg is one of America's leading meditation teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, and author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness.
Based on Sharon Salzberg — Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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