Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman provides practical tools for staying present.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Trudy Goodman explores:

• Staying connected to the flow of the breath
• The breath as our life-long companion and source of presence
• The loneliness of thought and being caught in the trap of our own thinking
• How the breath is our anchor and our teacher
• Cultivating the power of the mind to focus
• The pause at the end of a breath
• Balancing our energies and moving through each breath with care
• Stepping out of our familiar reactivity
• Accepting this as they are so that we can let them go

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

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

“All the ways of being mindful are ways that the Buddha asks us to be true to our own hearts and minds. Mindfulness is a form of honesty, of telling ourselves the truth of what is happening. It's showing us that when we're present with the breath, the breath is not just our companion, it's our dharma friend, it's our teacher.” –Trudy Goodman

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Explaining how imagination creates both beauty and suffering, Gil Fronsdal offers a skillful way to tap into inspiration without becoming lost in a dream.

This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal dives into:

• The poem “Thursday” by William Carlos Williams
• Transformation through presence during mundane experiences
• Dreaming as an important part of being human
• How the imagination helps to create connections
• The Zen principle of present moment awareness
• Allowing reality to move through the world of our imagination
• Not becoming lost or stuck in a dream
• The Buddha as a man of tremendous imagination
• Imagining the possibility of being freed from suffering

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

About Gil Fronsdal:

Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council. In 2011 he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications. You may listen to Gil’s talks on Audio Dharma.

“Dreaming, I think, is a very important part of being a human being. The imagination that can imagine possibilities, potential, that can create wonderful connections between things.” –Gil Fronsdal

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With embodied loving awareness, Dr. Sará King invites us into ancestral intelligence, shadow healing, and remembering our living connection to our lineage.

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This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Dr. Sará King explores:

• Ancestral intelligence and the collective nervous system as an interdependent web of being
• The concept of ‘Beloved Community’ and what it feels like to embody loving awareness
• Meeting the pain, grief, and responsibility of climate change with compassion
• Coming into contact with our shadows and healing our ancestral bloodline
• Recognizing that our ancestors are truly present with us, guiding us in the here and now
• Breathwork and grounding to reconnect with earth
• Sending metta to those around us and to our ancestors
• Shifting our neural connections and transforming our hearts through practice

Grab a copy of the book that Dr. King reads from: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

About Dr. Sará King:

Dr. Sará King is a Mother, a neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, medical anthropologist, social entrepreneur, public speaker, and certified yoga and meditation instructor. She is an internationally recognized thought leader in the interdisciplinary field that examines the relationship between complementary alternative medicine, social justice, art, and mindfulness from the perspective of neuroscience. Keep up with Dr. King on Instagram or HERE

“So many of us have lineages of complexity. I hold both ancestors who were oppressors as well as the oppressed inside of my body, so I can practice with this integration of loving presence and shadow every time that I connect to my embodiment.” –Dr. Sará King

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