2020-02-13
1 小时 8 分钟My guest in today's best of featured episode is a dear friend, Susan Piver.
So Susan is a New York Times bestselling author of, I Don't know, nine or ten books, a teacher, founder of the largest virtual mindfulness meditation community in the world, the Open Heart Project.
She's been featured on Oprah today, CNN, speaks around the world, leads teachings and retreats on Buddhism, meditation, relationships, love, and the essential practices of a life well lived.
She's also just a giant hearted, big brain close friend.
Her most recent book, the four noble Truths of Love, is incredible, and in it she offers a powerful set of tools to reimagine and better navigate long term loving relationships in a way that respects each person's individual truth, while also making space for living and evolving and really becoming who you need to be in the context of this bigger relationship.
In this timely and timeless episode, Susan shares the eye opening revelation that brought her to the four noble truths of love, then walks us through each one of those four truths and shows how to tap them to love more openly and forgivingly, dynamically, enduringly.
Among the countless wisdom bombs she drops are the ideas that discomfort is not the problem, thinking it should be comfortable is, and also this idea that things actually never stabilize, and that's okay.
She's also created a really fabulous additional PDF specifically about the four noble truths of love around Valentine's Day for everybody, whether you're in a relationship, not in a relationship, looking to figure out how to be and give and receive more love yourself.
It's a really powerful and free download that we will link to in the show notes, so be sure to check the show notes so you can download this really powerful gift from her as a PDF.
Super excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Field and this is good life project.
It's funny because we're friends for a long time now, but you have been on the show once before in the past, and I was realizing that it was actually a long time ago now.
It was when we were filming.
Must be five years ago.
Yeah.
And I was like, how could we not have actually had taped a more recent conversation?
Because there's so much awesomeness that you have to share.
Anyway, for our dear listeners who want to dive more into Susan's incredible backstory, taking you from the wilds of Austin, Texas, bartending through hip hop music, mogul through buddhist meditation, you know, like amazingness, we will throw a link to that awesome story in the show notes.
This has a bit of a different focus today.
You have worked one of the things that I've always loved about our conversations and about the stuff that you create is you toe this really interesting line between deep wisdom, deep, ancient traditional wisdom, and practical on the ground.