Listen "The Dance of Dharma & Desire with Trudy Goodman - BHNN Guest Podcast Ep. 191"
Episode Synopsis
Exploring how to untangle the threads of intense desire, teacher Trudy Goodman offers direction on meeting the Dharma.
This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman discusses:
- Being incarnated into this desire-body
- Diversity within desire and being tuned into different frequencies
- The pressure to conform to expectations
- Difficulty in knowing our deepest desires and embodying them
- Being determined to do what we want
- Coming home to the true self which is underneath everything
- Heartbreak and obstacles to connection as a place of learning
- Developing our ability to be with intense sensation and maintaining awareness
- Leaning into the call of the dharma
- This recording from the Big Bear Retreat Center 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 and workshops worldwide.
Learn more about Trudy’s offerings at trudygoodman.com
“This place of heartbreak, of the obstacles to love, connection, longing, relationship, this place is really the place that we learn how to hold this world of desire with a peaceful heart.” – Trudy Goodman
This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman discusses:
- Being incarnated into this desire-body
- Diversity within desire and being tuned into different frequencies
- The pressure to conform to expectations
- Difficulty in knowing our deepest desires and embodying them
- Being determined to do what we want
- Coming home to the true self which is underneath everything
- Heartbreak and obstacles to connection as a place of learning
- Developing our ability to be with intense sensation and maintaining awareness
- Leaning into the call of the dharma
- This recording from the Big Bear Retreat Center 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 and workshops worldwide.
Learn more about Trudy’s offerings at trudygoodman.com
“This place of heartbreak, of the obstacles to love, connection, longing, relationship, this place is really the place that we learn how to hold this world of desire with a peaceful heart.” – Trudy Goodman
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