Trudy Goodman, a renowned Vipassana teacher and Founding Teacher of InsightLA, shares her wisdom on navigating life's complexities. She discusses embracing impermanence and the interplay of personal and universal truths, highlighting the importance of mindfulness amid chaos. Trudy reflects on the transformative power of suffering for spiritual growth, using personal anecdotes to illustrate interconnectedness. She emphasizes mental health awareness, advocating for openness and the benefits of therapy in achieving balance and resilience.
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Embracing Impermanence and Tenderness
Life is a mix of impermanence and tender beauty.
Awareness of both suffering and joy deepens appreciation of our shared existence.
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Emptiness as Radiant Mind
Emptiness is the stillness beyond vanishing phenomena.
This radiant mind is our intrinsic Buddha nature, not something to produce.
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Unity of Form and Emptiness
The Heart Sutra teaches form and emptiness are inseparable truths.
Recognizing their unity helps us embrace both the relative and absolute worlds.
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Diamond Sutra
Mu Soeng
This book provides a new translation and commentary on the Diamond Sutra, one of the sublime wisdom teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. Mu Soeng integrates this ancient wisdom with current scientific and psychological thought, tracing connections between these teachings and contemporary theories of quantum reality. He explores the sutra within the framework of Buddhist meditation practices and provides a comprehensive historical survey of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The commentary aims to make the inspiration and wisdom of the Diamond Sutra accessible and engaging for modern readers.
Honoring the full spectrum of human experiences, Trudy Goodman explores our interconnection to all things and how to reconcile personal and universal truths.
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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
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.
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.
“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
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