Trudy Goodman offers dharma teachings on conflict and kindness, helping us build a loving awareness of who we truly are.

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In this episode, Trudy Goodman holds a talk on:

• How our thoughts shape our identity and can create mental prisons
• Breaking free from fixed ideas about ourselves, others, and the world
• Starting with ourselves: offering kindness to our inner critic 
• Uniting in our shared intention to cultivate loving-kindness
• Living in a world of complexity without creating suffering in ourselves and others
• The Tibetan practice of exchanging the self for another 
• Inspiration from children and appreciating the present moment
• Making friends with our lives rather than living in conflict 
• Relating wisely to situations and forgiving ourselves for being imperfect   

This recording from a 2013 retreat at Spirit Rock 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

“We live in a very conditioned culture, probably every culture is to some extent. We see so clearly the various 'isms' that cause suffering. Racism, ageism, sexism, classism, all the gender stereotypes, homophobia, the list goes on and on. We’re studying here how to be present in loving awareness. When we’re not caught, there’s such a sense of possibility.” –Trudy Goodman

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