Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 3/5/23 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Trudy shares her experience in a blog post for Insight LA.

Trudy shares reflections about the holidays in a blog post for Insight LA.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

The full moon in May is Vesak, a sacred occasion commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha, all on the same day. People flocked to the Buddha’s teaching because he showed the way to awakening using skills that everyone can cultivate within their own minds and hearts. He proved that it’s possible to find freedom within the human condition, right in the midst of birth and death. Vesak celebrates this possibility of awakening for each one of us.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/24/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 4/10/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion.

Our InsightLA community has been mourning the tragic death of one of our teachers, Michael Stroud. On March 2nd, a few hours before he passed away, I spoke to Michael by Zoom into the ICU, offering him Buddhist refuges and reminding him of the love of his community. His family was present and we could tell he was listening. His beloved partner Frances, who shares the Buddhist practices he loved, chanted for him non-stop during his illness with complications of pneumonia.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 3/13/22 with a special meditation followed by a discussion on our interconnectedness and finding our place of steadiness.

Trudy shares her experience in a blog post for Insight LA.

Trudy Goodman reflects on the crisis in Ukraine and increasing conflict throughout the world, and shares the Buddhist teachings we must take to heart at this time.

Sunday Sitting Group recorded on 2/27/22 with a special meditation followed by a continued discussion on the eight fold path.