What are the benefits and challenges as technology becomes the vehicle for practicing meditation? What is the role of apps in supporting mindfulness and when do we need to put down our phones and connect to ourselves and others? Soren speaks with Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Love, at the first annual Mindfulness in America Summit in New York to explore the role apps and other technologies have in creating a more aware and loving world.

Topics and ideas covered in this episode:

How we see mindfulness emerging in America

How technology can wonderfully disseminate the voices of meditation teachers

Emphasis on the “moment of coming back”

How mindfulness allows us to look nakedly at our experience

How our motivation to practice may change over time

Turning our deep grief and perpetual outrage into action

Partnership vs. Power dynamic

Real love as awareness, where we place our attention

 

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Mindfulness in America 2018