Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman shares stories and teachings about the Buddha’s one fortunate attachment: sacred longing.
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In this episode, Trudy Goodman gives a lecture on:
- Getting ‘everything’ when sitting in meditation practice
- Learning how to be present with the experience of suffering
- Growing from the mud: the metaphor of the lotus flower
- The deadly process of applying ideals of perfection to ourselves
- Finding the source of happiness in our own hearts
- Looking at grief as another form of desire
- Trudy’s explanation of what she calls ‘crooked grief’
- Attachment as addressed by Buddhist psychology
- The world that opens to us when are not caught in anything
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
“Don’t be deceived by any others that claim they will bring you lasting love and happiness. Understand that the source of love and happiness is in your own heart, in your own ability to be present, in your own mind. This is what transforms our wants and our longings—the ability to shine this light of presence.” –Trudy Goodman
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