CALM with Trudy Goodman | BHNN Guest Podcast Ep. 254

Teaching listeners to incline the mind towards peacefulness, Trudy Goodman offers practical ways to be calm and experience the blessings of tranquility. In this episode, Trudy Goodman holds a talk on: - Calm as a factor of enlightenment - Having an intimate connection with our own experience - Practical ways to calm down - Making our lives a living vigil of silence - Being in the holding presence of another - The mothering nature of mindfulness - How metta brings us self-compassion and calm - Inclining the mind towards practice and peacefulness - Witnessing the blessings of tranquility This was recorded at Spirit Rock and 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. “One person happily reported in our meeting, I asked, ‘what is happening in your practice, how are you doing?’ This person said ‘nothing, nothing is happening. It took 30 days but finally nothing is happening.’ This is calm. It’s really very neutral.” –Trudy Goodman