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May 2022
8m 33s

A Lovingkindness Meditation with Sylvia ...

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About this episode

The beloved Buddhist-Jewish teacher Sylvia Boorstein led this impromptu, short meditation as part of her On Being conversation with Krista Tippett (“What We Nurture”) at a gathering in Michigan in 2011. It was a magical experience in which the audience fully participated.

Find the original video and transcript at onbeing.org.

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