Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast

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!

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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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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...

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...