Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck Podcast

Old friends Sharon Salzberg and David Nichtern meet to discuss the calamity of misplaced faith and the expansion that can come from individualized social action.

This week on the CSM podcast, David and Sharon have a thought-provoking conversation about:

• Expanding the definition of social action to include art and genuine spiritual practice

• Looking deeper into the root cause of social problems

• Attempting to bring Buddhist teachings into a democracy

• Misplaced faith and the three root poisons in Buddhism – Grasping, Aversion, and Delusion

• Purification: going beyond awareness and into the elbow grease required for actually changing negative patterns

• The building blocks of real mindfulness and incorporating many different practices

• Kali Yuga, considering the state of the world, and trying to remain optimistic

• Understanding the consequences of our actions and our role in the collective

• How we relate to unchosen suffering and chosen suffering