Honoring the full spectrum of human experiences, Trudy Goodman explores our interconnection to all things and how to reconcile personal and universal truths.
This Dharma talk was originally recorded in 2008 at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center during a month-long insight-meditation retreat. Find the rest of the talks from this retreat on Dharmaseed.org.
In this episode, Trudy Goodman weaves through:
- Awareness of impermanence
- Emptiness and the vast universal activity of the Dharma
- Deepening our practice and gaining clarity
- The Heart Sutra
- The Form and Formless
- Tantra of the spiritual world and the conventional world
- Letting go of control
- Identifying with our mental illness versus being aware
- Being mindful when we are out of balance
- Honoring our personal truths an unique human experiences
“To be whole and complete on our spiritual path, we need to honor the full catastrophe; the darkness and the light, the relative and the absolute, the personal and the universal, the whole spectrum of our experience, of humanness.” – Trudy Goodman
About Trudy Goodman:
Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats and workshops worldwide.