Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman explores how trusting in the dharma and in ourselves leads to a more peaceful, present life.
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In this episode, Trudy Goodman gives a lecture on:
- The dharma as our reliable refuge
- Trusting the simple process of being alive
- Offering metta (loving-kindness) to ourselves and others
- Practicing mudita, aka, taking joy in the joy of others
- How the principle of sila (ethical conduct) protected the Buddha from his demons
- What to do when we are swayed by temptation
- Concerning ourselves only with what our minds are doing in this very minute
- Living in the way instead of worrying about a result
- Making each thing we do the most important thing in the world
- Using our karma instead of being used by it
This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.
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, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com
“Trust yourself then, to this simple process of being alive, letting go of all elaborations and returning to the body, the breath, step by step, moment by moment, just returning to this simple basic fundamental fact of our own aliveness—our embodied being.” –Trudy Goodman
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