Media and Resources
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Lovingkindness and the Inner Child with Trudy Goodman
Trudy leads a guided meditation session focusing on loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna). She discusses the importance of self-love as a foundation for extending compassion to others. The practice involves visualizing oneself as a child, offering reassurance, and sending well wishes for safety, happiness, health, and freedom from suffering.
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Difficult Energies as Gateways to Awakening with Trudy Goodman
Trudy delves into the five hindrances—craving, aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt—showing how mindful awareness turns these obstacles into teachers. She speaks of cultivating equanimity and conscious transformation to face inner and outer challenges with wisdom and compassion.
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Mindfulness of the Body with Trudy Goodman
Trudy offers a body-centered mindfulness practice, inviting participants to meet each sensation with curiosity and care. The session explored balanced posture, compassionate awareness, and closed with mindful walking and quiet reflection.
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Metta Practice for Today with Trudy Goodman
Trudy guides a session on loving kindness (metta), the first of the Brahmaviharas, exploring how this practice softens fear and anger. She invites participants to weave kindness into everyday moments, nurturing a steady, compassionate presence.
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Inner Freedom and Mindful Awareness with Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield
In this session, Jack guides a meditation on awakening inner freedom and awareness, inviting participants to move beyond body and mind into pure consciousness. Trudy closed the practice with a mindful walking ritual.
Published in Spirituality & Health: Trudy Goodman on the Buddhist Vow to Free All Beings
In an article published in Spirituality & Health in August 2025, Trudy discusses the bodhisattva vows with her cousin, the writer Myra Goodman.
BHNN Guest Podcast – Ep. 219 – Jellyroll Metta with Trudy Goodman
Opening our hearts in practice, Trudy Goodman takes us through her Jellyroll meditation to encourage the expansion of metta from the self to others.
BHNN Guest Podcast – Ep. 215 – The Two Truths with Buddhist Teacher Trudy Goodman
Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman shares how we can alleviate suffering by holding both universal and personal truths in our awareness.
Dharma Talk - From Wisdom 2.0 2025 - Disruption and Human Relationships with Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman & Soren Gordhamer
Trudy and Jack discuss Disruption and Human Relationships with Soren Gordhamer at Wisdom 2.0 2025.
Dharma Talk - The Power of Love with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
Trudy and Jack share about the power of love at the 2025 Power of Love Summit from Wisdom for Life.
BHNN Guest Podcast – Ep. 210 – Virya: Courage, Energy and Trust with Buddhist Teacher Trudy Goodman
Explaining Virya, the effort factor of enlightenment, meditation teacher Trudy Goodman explores the courage it takes to trust in our practice and to mindfully face the five hindrances.
Dharma Talk - Conversation with Lienchi Tran
Trudy Goodman and Lienchi Tran explore wise view—the first step on the Eightfold Path—as the foundation for spiritual understanding. They discuss cultural perspectives, community, and mindfulness in daily life, offering insights on letting go, seeing clearly, and living fully in the present moment
Dharma Talk - Mindfulness of Thoughts - with Gullu Singh
This guided meditation and talk invite mindful awareness of our thoughts—seeing them come and go without getting caught. With simple practices like loving-kindness and gentle noting, we learn to quiet distraction, soften emotional reactions, and rest in the natural harmony of mind and body.
Dharma Talk - The Hindrances
In this talk, Trudy explores the five hindrances in meditation as natural parts of the path rather than obstacles. Through awareness of our senses and states of mind, she shows how mindfulness transforms difficulty into clarity, reminding us—through powerful stories—of life’s preciousness and our capacity to love fully.
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Brahmaviharas and the Jelly Roll Metta Meditation
In this session, Trudy explores the Brahmaviharas, beginning with the practice of metta, or loving-kindness. She shares its timeless roots and healing power, guiding participants through a heart-opening visualization to awaken self-compassion and gently expand goodwill to all beings—even those who challenge us.
Guided Meditation - The Instructions
In this guided meditation, Trudy Goodman invites us to return to presence through the simple rhythm of breath and movement. Blending seated and walking practice, she encourages a gentle awareness of body and mind—each step and sensation becoming a doorway to steadiness, ease, and connection with the earth.
Heart Wisdom Podcast with Jack Kornfield – Ep. 289 – Still We Rise: Bodhisattvas of the Great Turning with Trudy Goodman
In this time of global uncertainty, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman call us to rise with fierce compassion and become Bodhisattvas of the Great Turning.
Dharma Talk - Honoring the Bodhisattvas Among Us
In this Dharma talk and meditation, Trudy honors mothers and caregivers as everyday Bodhisattvas—embodying compassion through service, love, and resilience. Weaving poetry, reflection, and Buddhist insight, she invites us to nurture ourselves as we care for others, drawing strength from Mother Earth and the timeless wisdom of the feminine heart.
Dharma Talk and Meditation - Still We Rise with Jack Kornfield
A special Sunday Sitting Group at InsightLA led by founder Trudy Goodman and her husband Jack Kornfield. Jack led a guided meditation emphasizing presence and gratitude, and Trudy discussed the importance of community and mindfulness during challenging times.
Published in Lion’s Roar: “Our Precious Human Life & Death”
In an article published in Lion’s Roar in January 2025, Trudy discusses insights she took away from a near-death experience.