Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast Ep. 161 – Compassionate Presence with Trudy Goodman
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Feb 15, 2024 Trudy Goodman, a Vipassana teacher and founding teacher of InsightLA, brings decades of retreat and psychotherapy experience. She explores how ordinary actions become practice. She discusses meeting raw feelings with compassionate presence. She outlines simple frameworks like RAIN and the power of witnessing to turn any moment into a space for awakening.
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Use Sila Samadhi Prajna As Practice Pillars
- Count on three foundations: ethical living (sila), presence (samadhi), and wisdom (prajna) as stable supports in practice.
- Use precepts and steady concentration to cultivate the compassion that arises from insight.
Compassionate Deities Are Inner Qualities
- Trudy maps Buddhist compassionate figures (Chenrezig, Kuan Yin) to our own inner capacities for seeing and offering care.
- These deities function as representations of awake qualities we can cultivate and mirror to others through presence.
Empathy Is Becoming The Witness
- Quoting Nisargadatta, Trudy frames empathy as shifting attention so you 'become the very thing you look at.'
- This interior witnessing turns attention into love by experiencing the consciousness of what is observed.