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
Ep. 221 - Ram Dass Fellowship: The Mystical Power of Rumi with Omid Safi, Hosted by Jackie Dobrinska
Framed by the Sufi wisdom of Rumi, a 13th century mystical poet, Omid Safi brings our awareness to the profound ways that we are interconnected with the divine.
This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Omid Safi discusses :
- Living as a reflection of the Divine—carrying ourselves as mirrors of God’s light on earth
- The gift of alchemy: the science that recognizes the whole of the universe as one essence
- Transforming that w...
Immersing listeners in hope and optimism, author Anne Lamott helps listeners cultivate resilience through stories of honesty and service.
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In this episode, Anne Lamott holds a talk on:
- Service to others and selflessness as a clear path to hope
- Listening to the one-man band of ou...
Opening our hearts in practice, Trudy Goodman takes us through her Jellyroll meditation to encourage the expansion of metta from the self to others.
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In this episode, Trudy Goodman illuminates:
- The heart’s natural capacity to love and heal—reclaiming our birthright to compassio...
Gil Fronsdal reflects on Anicca, the Buddhist teaching often translated as impermanence, and offers a more precise lens for Western minds to understand its meaning.
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In this episode, Gil offers wisdom on:
- How to create inner conditions that support the natural arising of wisdom
- ...
Synthesizing the divine love found in Sufism with the primal emptiness found in Zen practice, Llewellyn reveals how each path has impacted his spiritual life.
This episode is a companion to BHNN Guest Podcast Episode 213, Angels & Devas with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check it out!
In this week’s episode, Llewellyn goes over:
- Understanding the essence of Ch’an (Zen) as a harmo...
Deepak Chopra explores the inner universe and explains how turning inward connects us to God, higher consciousness, and the boundless intelligence of the cosmos.
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In this deeply intellectual episode, Deepak Chopra holds a lecture on:
- Three levels of existence: physical, quantum...
Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman shares how we can alleviate suffering by holding both universal and personal truths in our awareness.
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In this episode, Trudy Goodman provides wisdom on:
- The interwovenness of the sacred spiritual world and the conventional world
- The liberat...
Mirabai Starr joins Amy Buetens, Jackie Dobrinska, and the LSRF virtual Satsang to explore how we can deepen our sacred connection with our ancestors and embrace the divine mystery of mortality.
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This week, Jackie, Mirabai, and Amy explore:
- Taking a moment to share in gratitude...
In this expansive overview of spirit beings and how they operate in our world, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee explains his personal encounters with Angels, Devas, and more.
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This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Llewellyn illuminates:
- Awakening to our divine nature through spir...
Are we trying to find inner peace the wrong way? Gil Fronsdal discusses cultivating an all-inclusive awareness that embraces each experience and sensation without resistance or judgment.
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In this episode, Gil Fronsdal provides insights on:
- Figuring out what our life’s pursuit i...
Contemplating the nexus of suffering and compassion, Thanissara, Raghu, and Jackie offer suggestions for showing up with love for all that arises.
This is the opening workshop from the Centered in the Storm Virtual Immersion with Ram Dass & Friends. This course features topics like: uncovering our shared connection, transforming relationships, personal healing & global impact, and more!
Check out Ram Dass’ Inne...
Explaining Virya, the effort factor of enlightenment, meditation teacher Trudy Goodman explores the courage it takes to trust in our practice and to mindfully face the five hindrances.
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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Trudy Goodman explains:
- Virya, the effort, e...
Gil Fronsdal explores why we suffer and how we can meet our suffering with a supportive presence for the benefit of ourselves and all beings.
In this episode, Gil thoughtfully discusses:
- Becoming like a wise & peaceful snake, shedding our skin from time to time
- How mindfulness practice can contain the goal of cessation of greed, hatred, and delusion
- How clinging creates emotional stress, mental pain, and spiritua...
Recorded live at the 2022 Summer Mountain Retreat, Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman, and Raghu Markus explore the true essence of love through the lenses of service, social action, and selflessness.
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Come join us this year at the 2025 Summer Mountain Retreat in Boone, North Carolin...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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