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Anne Lamott, Raghu Markus, and RamDev reveal that letting go of how life should be opens the door to compassion, healing, and contentment with reality. This Dharma Session was recorded at the December 2025 Ram Dass Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat. Learn about upcoming community events HERE. https://youtu.be/rtmAlpns62A This week on Mindrolling, Raghu, Anne, and RamDev hold a talk on: - Standin...

In a moment when the world feels uncertain, Jack sits down with Anne Lamott and Tami Simon for an intimate, deeply human conversation about stories of the heart—how they soften us, unite us, and remind us of our own beauty.

The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, insights, and wisdom. Sign up for the General Fellowship to receive event invitations directly in your inbox: https://www.ramdass.org/fellowship/ This episode of Here and Now comes from an event at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on July 31, 2000. Ram D...

Looking through a Jungian lens, Psychologist Dr. John Price and Raghu Markus have a discussion on the mechanics of awakening.

Exploring embodiment and self-realization, RamDev takes listeners on a journey through the four paths of yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and Raja Yoga.

For episode 275, we are continuing a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon’s first children’s book, Kind Karl, out now! Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children’s adaptation of Sharon’s beloved book Lovingkindness. For this podcast series, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers about the way...

Celebrating the release of his new book of his favorite stories, All In This Together, Jack shares wise tales on living with integrity, presence, stillness, and generosity.

Exploring the connections between Bharata Natyam dance and zazen, Anusha Enryu Fernando helps listeners remember the joy of practice. This conversation was originally recorded on the Paths of Practice Podcast. You can get more episodes by subscribing to Paths of Practice on YouTube. This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Anusha and Vincent discuss: - Zen practice and doing full body meditations - Bh...

Environmental activist Robin Greenfield explores why separation is the biggest threat to humanity and how to become a servant to all.

Speaking to a room full of Buddhists and psychotherapists, Ram Dass explores the impact that Eastern traditions have had on his life and his extraordinary adventure of coming home to being human. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, ins...

Celebrating the release of There Is No Other, a new book of teachings from Ram Dass’ lectures, Parvati Markus and Raghu Markus listen to and reflect on some of the material used in its creation. This special episode of Mindrolling celebrates the new book, There Is No Other, a collection of teachings taken from Ram Dass’ lectures. In these times, Ram Dass’ teachings on wholeness and unity are more...

Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience, Matt Zeemon discusses the power of psychedelics for quieting the ego, rekindling love, facing pain, and opening the heart. This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Matt Zeemon explores: - Psychedelics as catalysts for healing, not cures - Matt’s first psychedelic experience and reconnecting with his mother - Western psychological medicine as a...

Discussing humanity’s deep fear of death, J. Krishnamurti and Dr. Allan W. Anderson analyze how freedom arises when we understand the inseparable connection of life and death. To start at the beginning of this 18-part dialogue on consciousness, spirituality and navigating life with J. Krishnamurti and Dr. Allan W. Anderson: https://youtu.be/rcn0gXWv9UU This time on Freedom from the Known, J. Krish...

For episode 274, we are continuing a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon’s first children’s book, Kind Karl, coming out on December 9th! Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children’s adaptation of Sharon’s beloved book Lovingkindness. To learn more about Sharon’s forthcoming children’s book, Kind Karl, and pre-...

Indigenous scholar Apela Colorado, Ph. D., joins Anita Sanchez to explore the power of dreamwork and practical ways to reconnect our inner and outer polarities. This week on The Four Sacred Gifts, Anita and Dr. Apela Colorado discuss: - A loving prayer for all of those who are suffering around the world - Inner connection between the self and larger reality - Dr. Apela’s experience growing up embe...

Offering listeners a way to live life fully, Trudy Goodman explores how to overcome the brain's negative bias by inclining the mind toward appreciation. In this episode, Trudy Goodman gives a lecture on: - The mind’s tendency to view things negatively - How evolutionary wiring shapes what we notice and what we miss - A powerful teaching from loved ones at the end of life: do all things with joy -...

Raghu Markus and Psychoanalyst Dr. Jeffrey Rubin unpack how mindfulness, empathy, and self-understanding connect the worlds of Buddhism and Western therapy. In this Mindrolling episode, Raghu and Dr. Rubin discuss: - Jeffrey’s traditional upbringing and the unexpected spiritual experience he had during a basketball game - Key parallels between Western psychotherapy and Buddhist wisdom - How “hover...

Defining the nature of Bodhicitta, Joseph Goldstein explains that enlightenment is inevitable when compassion and emptiness coexist. This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein thoughtfully articulates: - Bodhicitta: the heart-mind of awakening and working for the benefit of all beings - Living in the world while still remembering the truth of non-self and impermanence - The beauty of selflessness...

Celebrating the release of his new book of his favorite stories, All In This Together, Jack shares why ‘sometimes we need a story more than food.’

Speaking across the decades from the 1960s to the 2010s, Ram Dass shares stories about his mother and father, and explores what it means to honor our parents and incarnation. This episode of Here and Now is a compilation of Ram Dass discussing what it means to honor our parents and our incarnation. We begin in 1969 at the family farm in New Hampshire. Ram Dass talks about how most of our efforts t...

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 B...

RamDev shares how to make every moment a living prayer, carrying the essence of mantra and devotion into both the sacred and the mundane. This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores: - RamDev’s personal struggles with integrating practice into his daily life - Bringing heartfulness into mundane activities as a form of ceaseless prayer/practice - Practicing out of richness, abundance, and ade...

Raghu sits down with clinical psychologist and meditation teacher Dr. Tucker Peck to explore the meeting point of dharma and psychotherapy. In this episode of Mindrolling, Raghu and Tucker discuss: - Tucker’s first mind-altering meditative experience on the beach - Including the dharma in psychotherapy and Tucker’s work in meditation as a therapeutic modality - How Tucker developed a relationship...

Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi explore how facing suffering with love can awaken the courage to heal our world.

Blending creativity, business, and parenthood, Jonathan and Miya Eden join David Nichtern to discuss bringing stories to life through animation. In this episode, David, Jonathan and Miya explore: - How Jonathan and Miya met and became both personal and creative collaborators - The process of animating and creating content for Pengwee and Ruby - Animating meditative processes and a modified story o...