Be Here Now: Rinpoche, Salzberg, Goleman

Sharon Salzberg; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion

Why we meditate with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Daniel Goleman, and Sharon Salzberg – Metta Hour Podcast Ep.197

(Be Here Now Network) Tibetan teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche and American psychologist Daniel Goleman join successful American meditator and author Sharon Salzberg for a special episode of the Metta Hour Podcast celebrating the launch of their brand new book, Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a beloved teacher among the new generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters. Widely recognized as an outstanding meditation teacher for over 25 years, he is the author of Open Heart, Open Mind, Fearless Simplicity, and Carefree Dignity.

Daniel Goleman is the international bestselling author and coauthor of several books, including Emotional Intelligence, Focus, and Altered Traits. He was a science reporter for The New York Times and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

In this special episode, Sharon, Dan, and Rinpoche speak about:

• How Rinpoche began teaching
• The ways psychology shapes spiritual practice
• The first time Rinpoche taught in the United States
• John Welwood and Spiritual Bypass
• How their new book came to be
• Finding our natural pace in a speedy culture
• The Subtle Body
• Balancing Restlessness
• Working with our “Beautiful Monsters”
• How childhood imprints affect us
• When an experience we have is real but not true
• Rinpoche’s fear of heights
• Handshake practice
• Obstacles of love and compassion
• Cultivating intrinsic okay-ness
• Grounding in the body
• The importance of “Wise Hope”

The episode closes with Rinpoche leading a guided meditation. To learn more about their new book, Why We Meditate, visit TsoknyiRinpoche.org or DanielGoleman.info and get a copy today in hardcover, eBook, or audiobook formats.

• 00:00 - Science and Practice // Why We Meditate
• 24:18 - Beautiful Monsters // Staying With Feelings
• 43:40 - Emotional Development // Loving-Kindness

“The cognitive body understands if there’s numbness in the body or blockages or it carries wrong imprints, but how are we going to access that to change? Not from the head. We have another element that carries the cognitive mind’s message: feeling.”

– Tsoknyi Rinpoche

BOOK: Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion

We all experience negative emotions from time to time. But in a world with as much frenzy and pressure as ours, it’s incredibly easy for these same emotions to become destructive. Now, by blending Eastern tradition with Western science, Why We Meditate effortlessly helps one embrace and understand meditation as never before. With accessible and eye-opening advice based on groundbreaking neuroscience, this guidebook helps one not only break free from negative patterns of thought and behavior, but radically embrace our very being. Revolutionize health, relationships, and "soul" with this book, which is perfect for both serious meditators and those new to the practice.

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TED Radio Hour's new female host (video)

TED Radio Hour (ted.com); Guy Raz (NPR); Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The TED Radio Hour investigates the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Can we preserve our humanity in the digital age? Where does creativity come from? And what's the secret to living longer? In each episode, new Host Manoush Zomorodi (replacing Guy Raz) explores one big idea through a series of TED Talks and original interviews, inspiring us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves.

New host? Who's Manoush?

Manoush Zomorodi is now the host of the TED Radio Hour. Journalist, podcaster, and media entrepreneur, her work reflects her passion for investigating how technology and business are transforming humanity. She is a co-founder of Stable Genius Productions and co-host and co-creator of ZigZag, the business podcast about being human. She also created, hosted, and was managing editor of the podcast Note to Self in partnership with WNYC Studios, which was named Best Tech Podcast of 2017 by The Academy of Podcasters.

Bored and Brilliant: smart phone addict

Prior to her time at WNYC, she reported and produced around the world for BBC News and Thomson Reuters, including a few years in Berlin. She was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018 and has received numerous awards for her work, including The Gracie for Best Radio Host in 2014 and 2018. Her book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self (St. Martin's Press, 2017) and her TED Talk are guides to surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy." Zomorodi received a B.A. from Georgetown University in English and fine arts. She is half-Persian and half-Swiss and was born in New York City, where she lives with her family.

How to talk to our teens about sex (TED video)

TED Radio Hour, 4/6/18; Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How Should We Talk to Our Kids About Sex? (13:46), Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode "Turning Kids into Grown-Ups."

That's it? What's it for? - I don't know, son.

"Dad, what's a clitoris?" "Achkk, ask your mother!" "Are you kidding? She's not going to tell me anything. I doubt she knows, and if she does, she sure's not comfortable enough to share it with me." "Then go to the library!" "Wait, what am I thinking? I have a dumb phone and Wikipedia and YouTube videos! Thanks, dad!" "Hold on, son. I'd like to know myself. Let's look it up together. But whatever you do, don't tell your sister. She must never know!" "Okey-dokey."

 

About Peggy Orenstein's TED Talk

Author Peggy Orenstein warns us: If parents don't educate kids about sex -- the mainstream media will. She says that leads to risky behavior and keeps young females from expecting equality in sexual relationships. VIDEO (transcript - download) 

• TED: What we don't talk about (when we talk about sex)

Related NPR Links

• Girls and Sex and the Importance of Talking to Young Women about Pleasure
• Saving our Daughters from an Army of Princesses
• Dodging Disney in the delivery room

Who is Peggy Orenstein?

For the past 25 years Peggy Orenstein has written extensively on a wide range of issues affecting girls and women. From princess culture to the adolescent confidence gap to sex, she reveals uncomfortable truths about the role of girls and women in our culture -- and its consequences. Orenstein is the author of Girls And Sex, Schoolgirls, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, and most recently, Don't Call Me Princess. She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

• TED Bio: Peggy Orenstein
• TED Talk: The Lies We Tell Pregnant Women

Earth Hour: 8:30 pm Saturday (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; EarthHour.org  Earth Hour 2013: 8:30 pm Saturday, March 23, 2013

 

Supermodel Australian-born Miranda Kerr hosted a yoga class in Sydney thereby completing her "I Will If You Will" challenge for Earth Hour 2012. The global ambassador for the world's largest campaign for the planet, Kerr -- a model, entrepreneur, and eco-advocate -- taught more than 250 to stretch, strengthen, and breathe easy.

Special thanks to ESA/NASA, WWF-UK, WWF Int'l, WWF-Philippines/Dani Bautista, WWF-China, WWF-Brazil, WWF-Indonesia/Earth Hour Pontianak, Jerex Photographics, Miranda Kerr/KORA Organics, EWS-WWF UAE, WWF-Canada, WNF/WWF Netherlands, Claudia Bahamon, Isabel Lucas, Sungshin Girl's High School Korea, Greenpeace Int'l, Facebook Live, Earth Hour community.

 

Earth Hour has grown from a one-city initiative in 2007 to the world's largest campaign for the planet, uniting hundreds of millions of people across 7,001 cities and towns in 152 countries and territories. The official 2013 video features the track "Without You" by David Guetta and Usher, providing an upbeat soundtrack to match the celebration of this year's event across the world. Earth Hour's mission is to unite people to protect the planet, so go beyond the hour and upload your "I Will If You Will" challenge to YouTube.com/EarthHour. Dare the world to save the planet.

"Without You" performed by David Guetta featuring Usher courtesy of What A Music Ltd. under license from EMI Music Australia Pty Limited. "WITHOUT YOU" (Crus/Guetta*/Love/Riesterer*/Tuinfort/U­sher) ©Rister Editions / What A Publishing Limited.

Earth Hour: Lights Out

What can just one person do? In fact, it has been the actions of just one person that ever gets anything done because eventually follow suit (Jacilluch/Flickr.com).

Supporting the global initiative taken by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to observe "Earth Hour" by switching off lights for an hour on March 31st -- the last day of Women's Month -- we urge all to participate by switching off non-essential lights and electrical appliances for an hour from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm Saturday. This is an annual international event in which households and businesses across the globe switch off lights to raise awareness about taking action on climate change.

The climate scientist asked the climate denier, "Hey, how many climate deniers does it take to change a light bulb?" The climate denier answered, "There's nothing wrong with that light bulb."

• Plea to Switch off Lights on Earth Day

• Making Hawaii sovereign
• Historic Monument HM 157, Los Angeles

Earth Hour images from all over the world

Images of world's iconic sites going dark
The rolling wave of darkness is intended to boost the environmental movement against climate change. Before, after - Read Earth Hour story - More on Earth Hour - Where Earth Hour starts

Earth Hour! (today, 8:30 pm)

Yoga and more at this year's Earth Hour

On Mar. 27, 2010, people around the world are expected to join in a one-hour rally against climate change -- Earth Hour. For an hour starting at 8:30 pm, they will refrain from using electricity.

Participating organizations will shut their power to remind the world to conserve electricity. Before that, participants can join a free one-hour yoga session in the park... Earth Hour is organized by the Swiss-based non-profit environmental organization, World Wide Fund For Nature.

• Earth Hour 2010!

Earth Hour 2010: Are you turning out?

Are you turning out the lights? (Official Video)

Earth Hour: Results

World goes dark for an hour

Lights went out at landmarks, homes across the globe for Earth Hour 2009.

Billion people took part
Photos from around the world
Lights dim from Antarctica to Pyramids

Earth Hour

Antarctica to Pyramids — lights dim for Earth

• EarthHour.org

PLAY VIDEO

Turn off your surge protectors and lights at 8:30-9:30 p.m. PST. Earth Hour has gone international this year. It's Earth vs. Global Warming. We all vote by turning the lights off or leaving them on. Off = the Earth rests. On = Global Warming continue. More at:

• blog.accidentalyogist.com

People watch a free open air concert in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, March 28, 2009, during Earth Hour 2009. Organizers boasted the concert was people-powered. An activity named Future Spark saw 20 push bikes fitted with custom made electric generators being ridden from the 23rd to 28th of March and generating enough power to run the free open air concert (AP/Rob Griffith).

Celebrating "Earth Hour"; Mourning Tibet

A celebration that culminates in Los Angeles has begun today. Sydney is already celebrating. Participation is easy -- lights out all over the city. The deva Gaia must certainly notice the recognition of global warming and the willingness to do something about it.

• First major city to mark Earth Hour 2009 (AP)
• SLIDESHOW: Earth Hour
• VIDEO: World cities begin big switch-off (BBC)

Meanwhile, with an enormous propaganda campaign celebrat-ing "Serf's Emancipation Day," the totalitarian state of the People's Republic of China is marking a minor holocaust.

• China marks 50 years of direct control over Tibet (AP)
• SLIDESHOW: Tibet
• VIDEO: China marks 50 years of Tibet rule (AP)
• VIDEO: AP Top Stories (AP)

Earth Hour: Lights off in L.A.

L.A. Landmarks To Turn Lights Off For "Earth Hour"
Source: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

Hundreds of Los Angeles landmarks are joining WWF's "Earth Hour," an event that hopes to shed light on the importance of energy conservation by turning out the lights. Participants cast a vote for earth by turning their light switches off and cast a vote for global warming by keeping their lights on. More>>