Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg is a New York Times Best selling author & teacher of meditation practices. Her emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods. All of these methods have their origins in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. A student of Dipa Ma and other asian masters, Sharon together with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, founded the Insight Meditation Society in 1974. She also co-founded (with Goldstein) the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in 1989. In 1998 they co-founded The Forest Refuge as a long-term meditation retreat center. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.