Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast

Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast

The Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast features dharma talks from a rotating lineup of contributors like: Roshi Joan Halifax, Mirabai Starr, Gil Fronsdal, Mirabai Bush, and so many more!

Episodes

May 9, 2025 70 mins

Mystical feminist Mirabai Starr shares the fruits of many years of investigating, excavating, and uplifting women’s voices within global spiritual traditions.

This talk was recorded on Sept 22, 2020 as a part of the Virtual Ram Dass Fellowship.

This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Mirabai Starr discusses:

  • An invitation to unknowing and allowing our preconceived notions to fall away
  • The patriarchal roots of spiritual tradit...
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Gil Fronsdal explores the heart of Buddhist tradition by blending mindfulness with the transformative power of compassion and loving kindness.

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Join Buddhist Teacher David Nichtern and Duncan Trussell for a conversation about finding our own voice, our...

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Returning to the refuge of breath that is present from birth to death, JoAnna Hardy guides listeners through a grounding and connective breath-based practice.  

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In this practice-infused episode, JoAnna guides listeners through:

  • The first foundation of mindfulness, ac...
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Psychedelic expert, Dr. Raymond Turpin, discusses how psychedelics shut down our ‘default-mode’ and expand our creativity in music, art, and more. 

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In this episode, Raymond and Jackie discuss:

  • LSD and how it effects the creative process
  • The history of LSD, bicycle day, and...
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Outlining the four resolves of wisdom, truth, relinquishment, and peace, Gil Fronsdal takes us down the path of freedom.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explores:

  • The four resolves of wisdom, truth, relinquishment, and peace
  • How many people’s lives are founded...
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Learning from the networks of connection among trees and fungi, Trudy Goodman offers a dharma talk about nature, the breath, and oneness.

This 2016 recording is from Spirit Rock’s Fall Insight Meditation Retreat and was originally published on Dharmaseed

In this episode, Trudy Goodman discusses:

  • The fallacy of separate self and how we tend to forget our universal connection
  • The matrix of identity that we create as w...
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Talking about everything, everybody, nothing and nobody, David shares stories about Trungpa Rinpoche and Ram Dass from the 1970s to now.

This conversation was recorded as part of the Ram Dass Fellowship’s regular online gatherings. To learn more about the Ram Dass Fellowship and sign up to join a fellowship gathering near you, visit RamDass.org/Fellowship.

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In a full episode dedicated to the Hanuman Chalisa, Krishna Das chants with retreat attendees and explains the power of this moving mantra.

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In this 2019 recording from the Ram Dass Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat, Krishna Das is joined onstage with his ba...

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Dynamic duo Annie & Michael Mithoefer speak with Jackie Dobrinska about how we can reach our innate healing capacity via psychedelic-assisted therapy, breathwork, and more.

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This week, Annie & Michael Mithoefer discuss:

  • Ram Dass’ influence on An...
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Considering how we relate to the world, Gil Fronsdal offers insight into freedom from our mental constructs through stillness of mind.

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In this episode, Gil Fronsdal offers wisdom on:

  • The relationship between fundamental insight and fundamental happiness
  • Dividing ...
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Ram Dev joins the Ram Dass Fellowship to provide tools for spiritual healing to all listeners during this time of uncertainty.

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Hosted by Jackie Dobrinska, Ram Dev discusses:

  • The anxiety that arose during the pandemic
  • Navigating uncertainty in life and death
  • Refram...
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Renowned Buddhist teacher Gil Fronsdal outlines how a connection to the body is the gateway into the present moment.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal dives into:

  • Reminding ourselves to be in the present moment
  • Finding the dharma in the here and n...

Beginning with the Buddha’s teaching of Anapanasati, Trudy Goodman explores the breath as our most reliable and loving life-long companion.

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This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, renowned Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman explores:

  • The breath as our life-long, trusted com...
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Exploring Bhakti, Buddhism, and lessons from wise teachers, Krishna Das and Robert Thurman come together for a wide-ranging discussion.

This recording is from the 2020 Cultivating Wise Hope Virtual Retreat. Find more heart-focused teachings like this, along with practices and digital courses from Ram Dass and friends with Ram Dass’ Inner Academy: Learn More

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Visionary artist, Martina Hoffmann, describes her encounters with spirit through dreams, nature, psychedelics and more.

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In this episode, Martina Hoffman offers a talk on:

  • Encountering spirit through dreaming, nature, and more
  • The interweaving of creativity and sp...
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Guiding us along the path, Gil Fronsdal shows how to develop spirituality into enduring inner strengths rather than solitary experiences.

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In this episode, Gil Fronsdal teaches listeners about:

  • Developing personal, inner strengths
  • The tendency of meditators to ove...
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Exploring how to untangle the threads of intense desire, teacher Trudy Goodman offers direction on meeting the Dharma.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman discusses:

  • Being incarnated into this desire-body
  • Diversity within desire an...
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Lama Tsultrim Allione shares the practice of feeding our demons in order to dissolve that which prevents us from being free.

In this episode from the 2023 Summer Mountain Retreat, Lama Tsultrim Allione shares:

  • How she first discovered Buddhism and meditation
  • The beauty within silence and quiet attention to our surroundings
  • Lama Tsultrim’s first trip to India and studying the mystic east
  • Her connection with Ram Dass and Maha...
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On this episode of the BHNN Guest Podcast, East Forest and Marisa Radha Weppner discuss the role of song in psychedelics and explore how the ethereal can be accessed through music.

In this episode, East Forest and Marisa Radha Weppner discuss:

  • The many ways we can arrive at non-ordinary states
  • The power of intention when making music
  • How music can act as a bridge to the ethereal
  • How music can influence emotional states and ...
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In this retreat recording, Gil Fronsdal applies Buddhism to parenting and explains family life as one of the best forms of practice.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explains:

  • Buddhism as a training for all aspects of our lives
  • Finding balance, f...
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