Jack Kornfield on the Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg – Ep. 59

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Sharon and Jack Kornfield originally met in the 1970s in Colorado and went on to found the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA along with Joseph Goldstein. In this episode, Sharon and Jack talk about their first meeting over 40 years ago, and how the landscape for meditation in the West has dramatically changed since that time. They also discuss Jack’s book “No Time Like the Present” and its theme of freedom as compared to the theme of love in Sharon’s book “Real Love.”

 

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