Sharon Salzberg is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her emphasis is on vipassanฤ (insight) and mettฤ (loving-kindness) methods, and has been leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades. All of these methods have their origins in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Her books include
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (1995),
A Heart as Wide as the World (1999),
Real Happiness - The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program (2010), which was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011, and the follow-up
Real Happiness at Work (2013). She runs a Metta Hour podcast, and contributes monthly to a column On Being.