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You Are Good, You Are Enough: Free Yourself from the Trap of Doubt and Return to Basic Goodness
Is your inner critic running your life? Buddhist meditation teacher Lodro Rinzler shares down-to-earth wisdom to help you overcome self-doubt and find your authentic voice.
With 5 guided meditation, and 15 “on-the-spot” exercises.
What if the part of you that feels broken, not-enough, or unworthy has been wrong all along?
In this timely and compassionate book, meditation teacher and bestselling author Lodro Rinzler offers a radical reminder: underneath all the self-doubt, judgment, and noise of modern life, you are already whole. You are basically good.
Drawing from decades of Buddhist practice, teaching, and real-world stories, Rinzler shows how we can reconnect with our innate sense of worthiness and extend that recognition outward—to friends and family, strangers on the street, and even society itself. Through down-to-earth teachings, personal reflections, and simple on-the-go practices, You Are Good, You Are Enough guides readers to:
•Recognize and trust their own basic goodness—especially when life feels messy.
•Build resilience in the face of stress and overwhelm.
•Overcome the trap of doubt that weighs you down.
•Reclaim childlike wonder and compassion as powerful tools for living.
•See goodness not only in themselves but in everyone and everything around them.
Whether you’re new to meditation or a longtime practitioner, this book delivers a message we all need to hear: you aren't basically a mess.
With 5 guided meditation, and 15 “on-the-spot” exercises.
What if the part of you that feels broken, not-enough, or unworthy has been wrong all along?
In this timely and compassionate book, meditation teacher and bestselling author Lodro Rinzler offers a radical reminder: underneath all the self-doubt, judgment, and noise of modern life, you are already whole. You are basically good.
Drawing from decades of Buddhist practice, teaching, and real-world stories, Rinzler shows how we can reconnect with our innate sense of worthiness and extend that recognition outward—to friends and family, strangers on the street, and even society itself. Through down-to-earth teachings, personal reflections, and simple on-the-go practices, You Are Good, You Are Enough guides readers to:
•Recognize and trust their own basic goodness—especially when life feels messy.
•Build resilience in the face of stress and overwhelm.
•Overcome the trap of doubt that weighs you down.
•Reclaim childlike wonder and compassion as powerful tools for living.
•See goodness not only in themselves but in everyone and everything around them.
Whether you’re new to meditation or a longtime practitioner, this book delivers a message we all need to hear: you aren't basically a mess.
- GenresNonfictionPsychology
200 pages, Paperback
Published March 24, 2026
About the author
Lodro Rinzler
26 books200 followersLodro is a practitioner and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. He began meditating as a child and sat retreats as a teenager, even going as far as attending a silent month-long retreat during which he shaved his head and took monastic robes and vows.
When he left for college he received two heirlooms from his parents. From his father, a mala which he had used to recite mantras. From his mother, her father’s flask. He utilized both greatly in the four years ahead. During that time Lodro became a Vajrayana student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He also established Buddhist House, an eighteen person dorm at Wesleyan University which hosts a large meditation room. He began teaching meditation at that time.
After leaving college he was recruited to the position of the Executive Director of the Boston Shambhala Center. He began leading numerous workshops at meditation centers and college campuses throughout the United States. Lodro served as the Head of Development for Shambhala internationally before founding the Institute for Compassionate Leadership.
His column, What Would Sid Do, appears regularly on the Huffington Post and the Interdependence Project and his writing has appeared in Shape Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, the Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, and the Good Men Project.
When he left for college he received two heirlooms from his parents. From his father, a mala which he had used to recite mantras. From his mother, her father’s flask. He utilized both greatly in the four years ahead. During that time Lodro became a Vajrayana student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He also established Buddhist House, an eighteen person dorm at Wesleyan University which hosts a large meditation room. He began teaching meditation at that time.
After leaving college he was recruited to the position of the Executive Director of the Boston Shambhala Center. He began leading numerous workshops at meditation centers and college campuses throughout the United States. Lodro served as the Head of Development for Shambhala internationally before founding the Institute for Compassionate Leadership.
His column, What Would Sid Do, appears regularly on the Huffington Post and the Interdependence Project and his writing has appeared in Shape Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, the Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, and the Good Men Project.
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May 1, 2026
The author clearly did not understand The Matrix
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