Trudy Goodman

Trudy Goodman is Founding Teacher of InsightLA, a non-profit organization for mindfulness meditation

25/08/2026

10 years ago at the Rain Room at LACMA, an artwork designed with sensors so you could walk through a downpour and never get wet! Our grandchildren, Allie and Owen, were 14 and 11, now grown and working in New York City.

Here in LA, we’re having a heat wave, and no rain in sight. Please keep cool, come walk on the beach, jump in the ocean or just play in the waves. We are blessed with this great vast wilderness where the city stops and nature rules 🌊🐬🐚🦭🩵💙

21/08/2026

A gentle reminder from Yung Pueblo:

You don’t have to carry the weight of other people’s opinions. Especially their opinions about you!

Life is too precious to worry about what other people think. Of course, sometimes we do anyway, but to be aware of this and let it be, is our practice!

Repost Diego Perez

20/08/2026

It was a joy to meet Bhante Buddharakkita again at Hollywood Forever Monday night, and to hear his down-to-earth teaching.

We first met around 25 years ago when I was teaching at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and he was working in the office!

What Bhante has accomplished at his center in Uganda is truly wonderful and inspiring.

(You can see me in the second photo all the way to the left, the last person) 😍

Repost Melissa McKay

14/08/2026

For all of us who have a loved one, a friend or family member, who lives with mental illness, thank you Nelly Bly!! for going where no one wants to go. Thank you for starting the conversation so long ago 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

In 1887, a 23-year-old newspaper reporter walked into a New York asylum to expose its horrors and stayed for ten days.

Nellie Bly worked for the New York World. Her editor sent her undercover as a patient at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island to investigate whispered rumors about conditions inside. She feigned mental illness convincingly enough to fool doctors and a judge, and landed herself admitted to the overcrowded, underfunded facility.

Once inside, she stopped performing and observed everything. The women around her revealed a system of deliberate brutality: ice-cold baths held for hours, spoiled food, constant physical punishment, and psychological torture administered by staff with little training and less mercy. She documented it all.

After ten days, the World’s lawyers secured her release. Her series of articles published as “Ten Days in a Mad-House” caused national outrage and forced the government to invest millions in asylum reform and oversight. She had essentially invented modern investigative journalism in the span of two weeks.

Two years later, refusing her editors’ warnings that a woman could never travel alone without a chaperone and trunks of dresses, she packed a single bag, boarded a steamship, and decided to circle the entire globe faster than any person ever had. She completed the journey in 72 days, made permanent record a woman could do what everyone said she could not.

Her methods were stunt journalism. Her impact was structural change.

Repost Knowledge Vault including caption

12/08/2026

Astrological events like eclipses help remind us of the great mystery of life. In today’s world our lives become so busy often we forget the mystery of our own existence, the mystery of consciousness. But when we take the time to quiet our minds, open our hearts, and rest in loving awareness, we always come back to a wonder and amazement about it all. 🌒🌞

Repost including caption Jack Kornfield

11/08/2026

Even if you are not meditating, keep the Buddha close to your heart 🩷
For me this is the Dharma of the Buddha. What is your dharma? Dharma can mean the teachings, and your path 🚶🏻‍♀️

06/08/2026

Today we remember so that history may not repeat itself.

May we and all beings be safe and protected 🙏🙏🙏

Repost Anil Chacko (Chackochan)

31/07/2026

What a joy to spend yesterday afternoon with our wonderful friends Shantum and Gitu. Over lunch we found ourselves reflecting on pilgrimage—not only the ancient roads the Buddha walked that Shantum lovingly shares with so many, but the one each of us is walking every day.

We meet, remind and encourage each other, forget our way, begin again. This is the beauty of sangha, of practicing together on this human journey.

We’re grateful you’re walking it with us. ❤️

29/07/2026

The moon is literally dragging the oceans around and you think you shouldn’t feel it when our bodies are 70% water?

The moon’s gravitational pull, similar to its effect on tides, also influences bodily fluids and circadian rhythms, known to disrupt sleep patterns and lead to restlessness or insomnia.

Some report experiencing physical sensations during the full moon, such as changes in heart rate, energy surges, or unusual vibrations, interpreted as the body processing heightened lunar energy.

During a full moon, it’s common for individuals to experience heightened emotions, feeling more sensitive, reactive, overwhelmed, or amplifying positive emotions like joy. It’s also a time when intuition may be enhanced, making it easier to access deeper truths and insights.

The full moon’s light symbolizes illumination, bringing what has been hidden or unresolved into conscious awareness. This can be a potent time for reflection on emotional and energetic blockages and for releasing. Rituals like journaling or meditation can help facilitate this release and make way for new, positive energy to enter our lives.

The way the full moon affects individuals can vary greatly depending on their emotional state, spiritual maturity, and other factors. The more we connect back in to our energy bodies, our soul, our heart, our intuition... you will begin to feel these cosmic and lunar shifts more loudly.

Repost including caption Ali Rose 🌹

art: Vinny Ravuri FLIP Fluids

28/07/2026

Swimming near where Lagunitas creek gives itself to Tomales Bayay. Cold, murky, alive.

How do you love water that’s full of things you can’t see — flotsam drifting by in the creek, a whole world of creatures living in the ocean wilderness?

That’s the love affair — with the water, with the dharma. The known unknown. You walk in anyway….and swim!

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