I came upon a Facebook advertisement offering two familiar faces.  Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein are two of the founders of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, USA.  It’s a Buddhist meditation centre set amid fields and forests.

Joseph was one of my teachers during a long meditation retreat.  I’ve never met Sharon but I’ve read a few of her books.  They’re good people.

Sharon and Joseph are teaching an online meditation course.

Among the comments about the event, two stood out:

I bought this course a while ago and it’s totally worth it!  Loved it and will listen to the lessons again for sure

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The fact that you charge money for something that should given freely is disgusting.  You should be ashamed

And there you have it … the full span of humanity on display.  It gives me pause.