Dear Friends, We have a choice.  Epidemics, like earthquakes, tornadoes and floods are part of the cycle of life on planet earth. How will we respond? With greed, hatred, fear and ignorance? This only brings more suffering. Or with generosity, cl... Read more

Join Trudy as she leads a meditation and discusion focusing on how to work with fear due to coronavirus.  Note From Trudy: Hi Everyone, here are the links to information i mentioned on Sunday + some things you shared. There are many meditation apps... Read more

During the last outing before self-quarantine last week, I stopped by my daughter’s house. Of course, I couldn’t go in so I left a package on the doorstep and waved to the family through the kitchen window. Hilary came close and planted a kiss on the ... Read more

This past weekend, in fact, on the Mother’s Day weekend, a friend of mine lost one of her kitties. Tululah, the cat had a kidney problem and recently developed cancer in her stomach, which led to a relatively quick decline. Tululah was one of the two ... Read more

https://youtu.be/AKiRTq8hdBk **Please note - Trudys audio is low for the first 5 minutes. Join us for a Facebook Live conversation between Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman and Gabriel Stauring. The topic will be people on the move - immigrants, refug... Read more

Most of us live in a busy, goal-directed culture. In our meditation life, that same goal-directed energy is always searching for a special experience, attainable only in the future; a state that’s higher, better, different from where we are right now. F... Read more

Did you ever have a dream come true that you hardly even dared to dream? This is that dream: InsightLA has been given the chance to create beautiful contemplative programs in the San Bernardino mountains. And this summer we’re hosting our very first... Read more

Last night the moon rose huge and round, the third Supermoon of the year, coinciding with the Spring Equinox and Purim. The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the tale of this Jewish holiday. In a nutshell, the anti-Semitic Prime Minister dec... Read more

Teaching our Deepening Your Practice class a couple weeks ago, Elizabeth Rice shared an inspiring Ted talk on climate change by a then 15-year-old Swedish girl named Greta Thunberg. Incredulous and outraged that adults are doing nothing to stop the ... Read more

After his enlightenment, the first thing the Buddha told his fellow monks was that he renounced the extremes of his former life as both a pampered prince and an ascetic. Both, he said “are painful, unworthy and unprofitable.” Instead, he advoc... Read more