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Choosing Kindness with Sarah Ruhl and Sharon Salzberg

By Sharon Salzberg with James Shaheen, Sarah Ruhl · Tricycle Talks

50mReleased 17 Dec 2025Meditation, Awareness
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Sharon Salzberg, a founder of the Insight Meditation Society and a long-time exponent of metta practice, joins playwright Sarah Ruhl to talk about their first children's books and the wider question of teaching kindness without sentimentality. The conversation cuts back and forth between the formal practice of loving-kindness and what gets through to a six-year-old reader.

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