Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 22 minutes ago

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Roshi Joan Halifax is a zen abbot and medical anthropologist. In this guided meditation, she shares nourishing wisdom as we face suffering in the world, helping us to find the inner resources to carry our own grief and sadness and that of others.

This meditation is featured in the episode “Finding Buoyancy Amidst Despair” of the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett.
—Listen at On Being: onbeing.org/programs/joan-halifax-finding-buoyancy-amidst-despair

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