From meditation retreats to pop music, Vipassana trainer Trudy Goodman describes cultivating devotion in each apparent and unlikely locations.
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On this episode, Trudy Goodman illuminates:
- Cultivating devotion by way of seeing issues with a constructive connotation
- The exercise of compassion as a ravishing chance to expertise the sacred
- A narrative of Trudy’s daughter and going through extreme sickness with grace
- Holding a deep gratitude for all times and the dharma
- Training devotion by way of pop music and romance ballads
- Remembering the current second, the one second we now have
- Experiencing devotion by way of the tenderness of our shared joys and sorrows
- Enduring messy and painful moments with gratitude and persevering with to take pleasure in our apply
- How judgment and fear fall away after we are really current
- A lesson from Ram Dass on loving every thing
- Rising from the thriller of the cosmos
This recording from a 2025 retreat at Spirit Rock was initially revealed on Dharmaseed
About Trudy Goodman:
Trudy is a Vipassana trainer within the Theravada lineage and the Founding Trainer of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with kids, youngsters, {couples} and people. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and on-line. She can be the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian within the Netflix collection, The Midnight Gospel. You possibly can study extra about Trudy’s flourishing array of great choices at TrudyGoodman.com
“In fact, these songs are romantic songs, dedicated to you, my lover. However, you can say dedicated to you, the Buddha, the dharma, the sangha. You might take heed to all these teenage ballads that means, and it deepens your apply. You possibly can take heed to stunning religiously impressed music like Bach, however you may as well take heed to pop songs. It may be in regards to the Dharma. Devotion in all places.” –Trudy Goodman
Photograph by Mint_Images
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