The Buddha taught a path of woke up dwelling, however how does that manifest in at this time’s world of fixed connectivity and widespread struggling?
How can we maintain our hearts open with out being outlined or hardened by the ache that surrounds us, whether or not private, collective, or historic? How can we navigate the paradox of holding each ache and pleasure, with out mistaking struggling for punishment or private failure? Can we infuse our compassion with knowledge and perspective to search out the company to take significant motion in our communities? In her new sequence, Engaged Compassion, Sharon delves into these questions and extra, participating in candid conversations with a various group of academics, activists, and changemakers.
For the fifth episode within the sequence, Sharon speaks with Mirabai Bush, marking her third look on the Metta Hour. Mirabai is an creator, social entrepreneur, instructor, and religious chief. She is acknowledged for her pioneering position in integrating mindfulness and contemplative practices into secular sectors of American life, together with enterprise, larger schooling, regulation, and social activism. Mirabai’s contributions embrace co-founding influential organizations such because the Heart for Contemplative Thoughts in Society and the Seva Basis and co-developing Google’s Search Inside Your self Management Institute. She can be a longtime board member of the Love Serve Keep in mind Basis. Her newest e-book, Virtually House, is a memoir revealed in 2025.
Please be aware this dialog accommodates dialogue of gun violence throughout and civil unrest at Kent State College in 1970.
On this dialog, Mirabai and Sharon discuss:
- The method of writing a memoir
- Why Mirabai went to the East
- What drew Mirabai to activism
- Assembly Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba
- Mirabai within the civil rights motion
- Sustaining engagement over time
- Non-attachment alongside ardour
- Loving Consciousness as taught by Ram Dass
- How acceptance results in change-making
- The position of hope in activism
- Revolution is bread and roses
- Seva Basis’s roots
- Mirabai’s recommendation for social engagement
- Staying knowledgeable in a balanced means
- How communities reply to compassion motion
- The Lovingkindness Nun in Burma
Further Assets
To shut out the episode, Mirabai leads a “Simply Like Me” meditation. Be taught extra about Mirabai’s work proper right here. Her most up-to-date e-book, Virtually House, is out there proper right here. You may take heed to Mirabai’s earlier episodes on the Metta Hour right here and right here.
Associated Metta Hour Episodes
Episode 94 Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush on the Metta Hour, launched in 2019.
Episode 114 Remembering Ram Dass with Mirabai Bush and Raghu Markus on the Metta Hour, launched in 2020.
