Buddhist teacher, Judy Lief, joins Raghu to discuss training under Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, sharing transformative stories of Tibetan Masters and crazy wisdom from the 1970s.

Judy Lief is a Buddhist teacher who trained under the Tibetan meditation master, Ven. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She has been a teacher and practitioner for over 35 years, and she continues to teach throughout the world. Judy is known for offering insights and practices stemming from the Buddhist tradition as a support for ordinary people facing the difficulties and challenges of modern life. Judy leads retreats and workshops as well as presenting online teachings. For information, offerings, and to listen to her Dharma Glimpses Podcast, please visit JudyLief.com

Mindrolling – Raghu Markus – Ep. 391 – Dharma Glimpses with Judy Lief

Hare Krishna or Jai Hanuman—which mantra is best? Krishna Das explores chanting practice, longing, delusion, depression, and being a good person, before sharing a Hanuman Chalisa.

In this 'Hanging in the Heart Space' session from Dec. 3rd 2020, Krishna Das welcomes us to re-perceive longing as our saving grace - the pull from within to be whole. From this vantage point, Krishna Das answers a flowing river of audience questions pertaining to dealing with deluded family members, working with depression, how to choose which mantra is best for you, and shares the key secret ingredient to chanting practice: Sing and be a good person.

Krishna Das – Ep. 98 – Don't Fight the Longing

Francesca Maximé welcomes jazz pianist Emmet Cohen to ReRooted for a conversation about how music truly comes from the heart, the importance of practice, and much more.

Leader of the "Emmet Cohen Trio" and creator of the "Masters Legacy Series," Emmet Cohen is an internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and dedicated music educator. He has performed, recorded, or collaborated with Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Tootie Heath, Houston Person, Christian McBride, Kurt Elling, Billy Hart, Herlin Riley, Lea DeLaria, and Bill T. Jones. Learn more about Emmet and sign up for his newsletter at emmetcohen.com.

Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 50 – Music from the Heart with Emmet Cohen

On this episode of Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein explores how it’s helpful to have a comprehensive view of our direction as we set out on the spiritual path.

Joseph Goldstein – Insight Hour Ep. 104 – Enlightenment or Bust: A Reflection on the End of the Path

Dr. Michael Beckwith joins Nikki to discuss manifestation, abundance, formlessness, receptivity to grace, cultivating spiritual faculty, emotional alchemy, and being an ambassador of the invisible.

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith is a meditation teacher, author, speaker, and the Founder and Spiritual Director of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angelos. He has addressed audiences at the United Nations, TEDx, and Oprah's SuperSoul Sessions. As co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought, Dr. Beckwith has hosted His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and presented to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award. Check out his new book, Prosperity, Plentitude, and Infinite Possibilities, among others, like the award winning Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation. His new app, Beckwith Inspires, much like his weekly Instagram series, features essential spiritual tools, technologies, and practices to help shift perceptions and transform lives. Tune into his Sunday Services & Meditations at AgapeLive.com. For more info, visit MichaelBeckwith.com

Nikki Walton – New Growth – Ep. 16 – The Light is Carrying You with Dr. Michael Beckwith

In this virtual journey through 1970s India, Raghu, Krishna Das, Daniel Goleman, and Rameshwar Das compare roadmaps and share stories of Ram Dass, LSD, Maharajji, and miracles.

Joining together to help percolate memories and recollections as sustainable fuel for Daniel Goleman's anticipated memoir; Krishna Das, Rameshwar Das, and Daniel join Raghu in this special episode of Mindrolling, outlining their journey to India with Ram Dass in the 1970s, and the life-changing time spent with their mystical guru Neem Karoli Baba, Maharajji. Sharing stories, lilas, darshans, wisdom, jokes, and revelries from years of steeping together as satsang – it's nice to have 'the band back together.'

Mindrolling – Ep. 392 – We're All Still Here with Krishna Das, Daniel Goleman, & Rameshwar Das

Mindfulness teacher Larry Yang joins Konda Mason for a conversation about the power of the immigrant experience, creating opportunities in the realm of mindfulness, and much more. 
Larry Yang teaches mindfulness and loving-kindness retreats nationally and has a special interest in creating access to the Dharma for diverse, multicultural communities. He is the author of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, and is also a senior advisor in Mindfulness and Healing Justice for the Kataly Foundation. Learn more about him at larryyang.org.

Konda Mason – Brown Rice Hour – Ep. 11 – The Power of the Immigrant Experience with Larry Yang

Can you get mysticism in a bottle? Alan Watts explores the drug question, in this psychedelically infused episode of Being in the Way.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Mysticism in a Bottle // The Smell of Burnt Almonds (0:00)
Psychedelics, Mystical Experiences, & Western Culture (28:18)
Psychedelics as Instruments // Set & Setting (45:35)
Morality & Legislation // Policing, Preaching, & Hypocrisy (49:25)

“Lo and behold, I had what I simply could not deny being an experience of cosmic consciousness, the sense of complete fundamental total unity forever-and-ever with the whole universe. And not only that, but that what this thing was fundamentally—despite every thing and every kind of appearance in ordinary life to the contrary—that the energy behind the world was ecstatic bliss and love.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 7 – Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-7-drugs-turning-the-head-or-turning-on/

Alan Watts: Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On – Being in the Way Ep. 7 – Hosted by Mark Watts

In the second episode of Being in the Way – an Alan Watts podcast exclusively on the Be Here Now Network – Alan’s son, Mark Watts, shares background on Alan’s early life, before introducing two of his father’s specially curated dharma talks: Taoist Way of Dropping Out From Karma (Part III), and Wisdom of the Ridiculous.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Beginners Mind, Zen Mind (0:00)
Taoist Way of Dropping Out From Karma (7:40)
Wisdom of the Ridiculous (34:45)

“The whole conception of nature is as a self-regulating, self-governing, democratic organism. But it has a totality; it all goes together. This totality is the Tao.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-2-dropping-out-from-karma/

Alan Watts: Dropping Out From Karma – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 2 – Hosted by Mark Watts

Alan Watts illuminates the connections between Taoism and relativity, technology and human evolution, culture and seperation, Saints and rascals, you and not-you, as well as difference and unity.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Taoism & Relativity, Technology & Human Evolution (0:00)
Seperation & Culture, Saints & Rascals (15:25)
You & Not-You, Difference & Unity (28:10)

“The principle of relativity is absolutely fundamental to an understanding of Taoist philosophy. That is to say, that wherever you are, whoever you are, and whatever you are: you’re in the middle.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-3-in-your-own-way/

Alan Watts: In Your Own Way – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 3 – Hosted by Mark Watts

Connecting to the timelessness of the present moment, Gil Fronsdal offers practical steps towards the only source of true happiness: contentment.

This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explores:
- Seeing the timeless present through photographs 
- Enjoying the preciousness of our limited time here on earth 
- How corporate, capitalist America prefers people who are discontent
- What the Buddha said about the vital importance of contentment 
- How many desires often dissipate on their own if you ride them out
- The ways in which desire alienates us from ourselves 
- The embodied quality of contentment and being in touch with ourselves
- Freedom in the Buddhist sense: freedom ‘from’ rather than freedom ‘to do’
- Cultivating contentment by valuing it and seeing it as an important part of life
- Activities which encourage contentment versus remaining frantic
- Facing discontentment head-on so that it does not drive us 
- This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.

“Contentment is a falling away of anxiety, restlessness, reaching forward, fear, being fragmented, and disconnected. It is a kind of settling. If we’re driven by desires, fears, preoccupations, or fantasies, often our energy, our center of attention, is upwelling in an unhealthy way. As we are contented, we feel the settling down, settling down into the center of gravity.” –Gil Fronsdal 

About Gil Fronsdal:
Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council. In 2011 he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications. You may listen to Gil’s talks on Audio Dharma.



Contentment On The Buddhist Path with Gil Fronsdal | BHNN Guest Podcast - Ep. 232

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Contentment On The Buddhist Path with Gil Fronsdal | BHNN Guest Podcast - Ep. 232

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