Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast

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  • 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!
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  • Ep. 186 - Metta with Breath and Body with Trudy Goodman

    Ep. 186 - Metta with Breath and Body with Trudy Goodman
    Nov 22 2024

    Trudy Goodman introduces listeners to the Brahmavihārās through an affectionate breath practice and a loving-kindness body scan.

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

    • The Brahmavihārās: love, compassion, joy and equanimity
    • Re-parenting ourselves through practice
    • The feeling of being soothed, comforted, and safety
    • Offering loving kindness to our body
    • Gratitude for the breath and all it does to support us
    • The breath as a river of blessings that is always here for us
    • How the Brahmavihārās infuse and suffuse our being
    • A loving-kindness body scan

    About Trudy Goodman:

    Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats and workshops worldwide.

    Learn more about Trudy’s offerings at trudygoodman.com

    This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed

    You will notice that the breath is so exquisitely attuned. When we’re upset we tend to breath rapidly. When we’re at peace the breath slows down. We don’t have to do anything. This is one of the ways we are loved and supported by the breath. You don’t have to make it happen, you don’t have to create it.” – Trudy Goodman

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    31 mins
  • Ep. 185 - Ram Dass Explorer's Club: Integrating Psychedelic Wisdom with Spring Washam & Jackie Dobrinska

    Ep. 185 - Ram Dass Explorer's Club: Integrating Psychedelic Wisdom with Spring Washam & Jackie Dobrinska
    Nov 15 2024
    In this episode of the Ram Dass Explorer’s Club, Buddhist teacher Spring Washam delves into the real work that comes before and after a journey with plant medicine.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This conversation was recorded as part of the Ram Dass Explorer’s club. To learn more and sign up to join a Ram Dass fellowship gathering near you, visit RamDass.org/Fellowship.In this episode, Spring Washam and Jackie Dobrinska explore:Medicine as the gateway, practice as the real workAwakening to the truth of interconnectednessMetta, the loving-kindness practice / four qualities of heart and mindThe liberation that can be found within communityMoving away from hyper-independence and giving more value to loveThinking about our ‘why’ when it comes to using psychedelicsLearning how to love ourselves, each other, and this broken worldThe future of psychedelic legalization and the destruction of systemsComing back to meditation, devotion, and chantingA Q&A session with listeners on trauma, patterns, set & setting, and moreAbout Spring Washam:Spring Washam is a well-known teacher, author, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment and her newest book, The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based meditation practices to diverse communities. She is one of the founding teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, located in downtown Oakland, CA. She has practiced and studied Buddhist philosophy in both the Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism since 1999. She is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern California where she was trained for over a decade.In addition to being a teacher, she is also a shamanic practitioner and has studied indigenous healing practices since 2008. She is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, a one-of-a-kind organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom in South America. Her writings and dharma teachings have appeared in many online journals and publications. She currently teaches meditation retreats and leads workshops, and classes worldwide.Spring currently teaches meditation retreats and leads workshops, and classes worldwide: springwasham.com and is cohost of her own podcast on Be Here Now Network, The Spirit Underground.About Jackie Dobrinska:Jackie Dobrinska is the Director of Education, Community & Inclusion for Ram Dass’ Love, Serve, Remember Foundation and the current host of Ram Dass’ Here & Now podcast. She is also a teacher, coach, and spiritual director with the privilege of marrying two decades of mystical studies with 15 years of expertise in holistic wellness. As an inter-spiritual minister, Jackie was ordained in Creation Spirituality in 2016 and has also studied extensively in several other lineages – the plant-medicine-based Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Sri Vidya Tantra, Western European Shamanism, Christian Mysticism, the Wise Woman Tradition, and others. Today, in addition to building courses and community for LSRF, she leads workshops and coaches individuals to discover, nourish and live from their most authentic selves. “The medicine is the gateway but the practice is the real work. Nothing is real until it’s lived.” – Spring WashamSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Ep. 184 - Meditation: Awareness of Awareness with Gil Fronsdal

    Ep. 184 - Meditation: Awareness of Awareness with Gil Fronsdal
    Nov 8 2024

    Through meditation and lecture, Gil Fronsdal outlines how the awareness of awareness is more important than the content of an experience.

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

    • Giving too much importance to our experiences
    • Being mindful of whatever is present in a given moment
    • The authority we give to our fixations
    • Dropping into the experience of the body breathing
    • Knowing our feelings and thoughts and noticing when we are distracted
    • A guided mediation from Gil to develop awareness of awareness

    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. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. 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.

    “In some ways, it doesn’t matter that much where you bring your attention, what matters is that you’re using it. You can develop just as much clarity of mind and presence of mind on the rain sound as you can on your breathing, as you can on almost anything.” – Gil Fronsdal

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    32 mins

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