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This reads as a defense of tenderness against the idea that it blurs judgment. It points to compassion as a source of clarity, not softness for its own sake, and suggests that the real task is learning how to hold feeling and discernment together. It lands when someone fears being kind will make them naive, and needs a reminder that care can sharpen, not weaken, vision.
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About Sharon Salzberg
author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice
Sharon Salzberg is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. She co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1974 with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her work centers on vipassanā, or insight, and mettā, or loving-kindness, and she has led meditation retreats around the world for several decades. She is known for writing and teaching in that tradition, with an emphasis on practice and attention to the mind.
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