We followed our sitting and walking meditation with a Sharon Salzberg audio interview. In it, she discusses the movie Dan in Real Life and how it inspirted her to write the book, Real Love. Salzberg says:
...That was a moment when I was practicing, and I realized that up until a certain time there, when I was there, I’d always thought of love as kind of like a commodity. It was almost like a package in someone else’s hands, and if it was delivered to me, I’d have love, and if it was taken away from me, I’d have no love in my life, and I’d be bereft. And that turned around when I was there, and I realized, no, it’s inside me. It’s a capacity that’s within me. It’s mine. And other people — or other things, great art, or all kinds of things — might enliven it and nourish it and enhance it or threaten it, but it’s mine.
We also read an excerpt from Salzberg's book Real Love, and then explored what it means to have love already, and to strengthen our ability to experience it within, with others, and with the world.