Learning from the networks of connection among trees and fungi, Trudy Goodman offers a dharma talk about nature, the breath, and oneness.
This 2016 recording is from Spirit Rock’s Fall Insight Meditation Retreat and was originally published on Dharmaseed.
In this episode, Trudy Goodman discusses:
The fallacy of separate self and how we tend to forget our universal connection
The matrix of identity that we create as we practice together
Networks of connection in the natural world
Inter-breathing and the web of connection via breath
The breath as the bridge between our conscious and unconscious
Taking the backward step, a practice in subtle relaxation and receiving the moment
Allowing things to appear and disappear as the path to awakening
Noticing our patterns of reaction as our body and breath anchor us
Seeing the changing way of life and how it can flow through us and in us
Finding freedom in the present moment
Feeling more sane, little by little, through practice
Tools for remembering our oneness
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 are surrounded by these beautiful trees and plants, being so close to nature. I feel like they’re supporting, modeling, and showing us a way to be together here. We can experience this web in our own breath. We inter-breathe. We’re breathing not just each other's breath, but we’re breathing the breath of our ancestors. We’re breathing molecules that dinosaurs breathed, that the Buddha and his community breathed. We’re sharing air with all creatures really, and all those who came before us, all those who are currently in existence, and this breath will flow into all the future beings too.” – Trudy Goodman
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