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Trudy Goodman's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Trudy Goodman
Trudy Goodman has practiced in the Zen and Theravada traditions since 1974. She founded InsightLA and Growing Spirit (a family program) in Los Angeles. She is the guiding teacher of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA.
2012-10-22 Dharma Rain: Working with Difficult Emotions 56:16
RAIN: an acronym for a 4 - step process for using one's particular personal experience as a doorway to connect with the fullness of our awakened humanity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-10-28 The Play of Awakening 66:19
How to recognize the seven factors of Enlightenment in daily life and three songs by Teja Bell on guitar, favorite dharma songs.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Retreat
2011-10-22 Virya - courage, energy and trust 52:14
The effort or energy factor of enlightenment, practice in retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Retreat
2011-03-29 Devotion 54:03
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retereat
2011-03-20 The Two Truths 50:48
Personal experience as a doorway to Big Mind and transforming suffering into awakening factors.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retereat
2011-03-15 Sama Samadhi: Wise Concentration 51:46
What is samadhi? Why is it important for our practice? How do we develop and strengthen this 6th of the 7 Factors of Awakening?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retereat
2011-03-09 CALM 49:28
Why calm is important in practice and practical ways to calm down and develop tranquility, as a factor of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retereat
2010-11-22 Compassionate Presence 57:48
Transformation happens in the realm or context of compassionate presence. How do we learn to offer compassionate, loving attention to ourselves, each other, and our world?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat
2010-05-04 Three Marks: The Buddha's Facts of Life 51:37
The Buddha taught three characteristics of all life as a doorway to freedom, to the pure heart's release.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-01-09 What we're doing here 50:58
Mettafying the hindrances to death! This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness. How we maintain the self through excluding our vulnerability. The protection of inclusion, no one left out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat

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