You're Not Broken, You're Basically Good | Lodro Rinzler
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Lodro Rinzler discusses the concept of 'basic goodness' and how to recognize it in everyday life.
Hello Mind Bod Squad! This week we’re hanging with Lodro Rinzler, Buddhist meditation teacher, award-winning author of eight books (including the bestseller The Buddha Walks into a Bar… ), and the dude behind the Basic Goodness Collective. His brand-new book, You Are Good, You Are Enough , rests on one deceptively simple idea: underneath all the self-doubt and noise, you’re already basically (you guessed it) GOOD! Lodro’s the first to admit this can sound a little Pollyanna. But he’s not talking about “good” in a sinner-vs-saint way. More like “ okay as is” : complete, fine exactly as you are right now. It’s something you probably feel fleetingly, quite often. It’s that quiet “ oh, I’m fine” when the hot water hits your back in the shower, or that unremarkable beat at the end of the day when you set your bag down and, just for a second, nothing needs doing. The work, Lodro says, is learning to notice those ordinary moments and string them together until you can start living from that ground instead of just visiting it. We talk about: - What “basic goodness” actually means (and what it doesn’t) - Basic goodness as something you experience , not a doctrine you adopt (as our beloved…
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