Basic Goodness Training
Basic goodness is the most fundamental principle there is, and coming to know it changes everything about how you experience yourself and your world. This four-part training widens the circle step by step — yourself, everyone around you, society, the whole confused and beautiful world — with a practice after each part. Begin with a daisy.
Reclaim Your Peace and Self-Worth: Basic Goodness Training Part 1
Now practice it directly. Sit with your thoughts until they stop defining you, and the doorway opens to your own basic goodness — the daisy-ness of you.
Our Basic Goodness
If you've glimpsed your own basic goodness, even a little, you've laid the foundation for something bigger. Let's widen the circle to everyone — the driver who just cut you off included.
Reclaim Your Freedom and Trust: Basic Goodness Training Part 2
Take 'just like me' into the heart. Begin with the human body we all share, and open outward — toward others, including the ones you find difficult.
Metta for This Human Body
Now go bigger still: society is basically good. Feel what comes up when you hear that — resistance included. We're not training to bring the fight to the other side; we're training to go beyond war.
Reclaim Your Trust in Humanity: Basic Goodness Training Part 3
Every time two people meet, society is created — so what you produce inside matters. Practice with whatever comes up, aggression and rumination included, held in the aspiration that it benefits all beings.
Open the heart this wide and you may feel something else — a deep, genuine sadness at what our confusion has cost. Don't turn away from it. It's a clarion call to keep training, to move through the fear toward a world worth training for.
Stepping into Clarity by Taking the Path of Fearlessness: Basic Goodness Training Part 4
Go outside if you can, and take your seat in the world. Move from dissolving the self, to basic goodness, to basic confidence — beyond fear, into the senses, into the joy in every blade of grass.