Through meditation and lecture, Gil Fronsdal outlines how the awareness of awareness is more important than the content of an experience. 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 time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explains:Giving too much importance to our experiencesBeing mindful of whatever is present in a given momentThe authority we give to our fixationsDropping into...

In this 2022 retreat session, Spring Washam and Sharon Salzberg take a deeper look at mindfulness, the foundation of the Buddhist tradition. 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. In this episode, Sharon and Spring hold a discourse on:Working directly with our mindAn opening body scan meditation with SpringThe practice of Satipatthana and finding freedom through mindfulnessFinding...

Sharing her recent near-death experience, Trudy Goodman explains how and why dharma practice is essential to facing death without fear. 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 time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman shares:How even slivers of wisdom light up our lifeHer personal story of a near-death experience and choosing to liveThe imminence of death and...

Gil Fronsdal offers Buddhist wisdom on relating skillfully to our emotions and seeing them as messengers of our inner worlds.

Professor and Investigator Dr. Quevedo is hosted by Jackie Dobrinska for a philosophical talk on interrelation and psychedelic therapies. 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. In this episode, Dr. Sylvestre Quevedo and Jackie Dobrinska explore:The qualities of love within the heartHow the chemical components of MDMA aid in social bonding and heart-openingTouching into transcendent...

In a stimulating talk on reincarnation, ego-death, and other dimensions, renowned Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee bridges this world and the next. 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 week, teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee returns to explore:The unknowable essence of deathLessons and instructions from the UpanishadsDying to the ego before we die to this physical worldThe...

Describing writing as an act of faith, author Anne Lamott offers a workshop on connecting to our inner longing for creativity. 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 week, Anne Lamott joins the BHNN Guest podcast to teach: Following our creative lives and childhood callingsMeeting our creativity half-wayHow all of us start at the beginningMaking time for writing in our...

Live from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Trudy Goodman offers insight on skillfully working with the breath by infusing mindfulness with lovingkindness. 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 time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman discusses:Keeping the breath company with our attention from start to finishThe breath as a rudder to navigate our inner...

This week, Buddhist Teacher Gil Fronsdal explores our quality of well-being and how we can cultivate ease, happiness, and contentment on the path to inner liberation. 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. In this talk on cultivating well-being through Buddhist practice, Gil touches on:Happiness as something we do not pursue, but cultivate by creating and recognizing conditions for...

Describing the man-made wall between humans and divinity, Llewellyn reminds us of our own divine nature and how to access the light. 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. In this episode, returning guest teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee discusses:“The Wall” between ourselves and the DivineThe spiritual merging of the lover with the belovedSeparation as a consequence of human...

Reflecting on the inevitable truth of suffering, JoAnna Hardy explains what we do have jurisdiction over: our action, speech and mind. 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 time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, JoAnna Hardy explains:Recognizing the first noble truth of suffering all around usBreaking down what we cannot control in lifeHow resistance toward the inevitable causes...

Ram Dass taught that every moment is the perfect teacher. How is this possible when things are groundless – i.e. uncertain and constantly changing? How is this possible when we find ourselves anxious, angry, too tender, or even working with big traumas? In this episode, psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa sits down with Jackie Dobrinska, Ram Dass Fellowship Director, to discuss these questions. Together they look at how we can combine the inner technologies of East and West in a way that allows...

Focusing on Sila, Samadhi, and Prajna, Trudy Goodman explains how the Eightfold Path can carry us through all of our life experiences. In this episode of the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman offers a lesson on:The Eightfold Path as an expression and fulfillment of awakened lifeSila, Samadhi, and PrajnaEstablishing ourselves in goodness and the gift of fearlessnessThe bliss of blamelessness when we are free from guilt and regretHow committing to wise intention naturally...

Gil Fronsdal discusses having confidence in what the Buddha represents within ourselves and being a refuge for all beings. This episode 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 time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explains:How the Buddha defined confidence and fateInstructions from the Buddha on making oneself a refugeBeing a refuge and support for all beingsPersonal worth and finding...

Jackie Dobrinska and Bruce Damer chat about insight into ourselves and outsight into the world in this recording from the Ram Dass Explorers Club. The Ram Dass Explorers Club is a free virtual group wherein members delve into pivotal movements within the psychedelic renaissance while paying homage to the enduring legacy of Ram Dass. Join HERE to embark on explorations of expanded consciousness, guided by the themes of awe, transcendence, union, and beyond. Today’s episode is brought to you...

Moving through the senses, JoAnna Hardy guides listeners in a meditation to acquire stillness of the mind. Today’s episode 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. In this episode, JoAnna Hardy guides us through:The benefits of having clarity and a still mindThe breath-body central focusGaining self-trustPaying attention to the sounds and sights around us without assigning meaningWorking the muscle of...

Distinguishing commentary from direct experience, Gil Fronsdal helps us break free from the conventions and comparisons that the mind makes. Today's episode 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. In this episode, Gil Fronsdal speaks to listeners about:Paying homage to those who have purified their heartsDirect experience versus attempting to describe thingsThe way that comparison arisesSelf-image...

Nina Rao interviews Nani Ma about her deep devotion to serving her guru and her service work with Ganga Prem Hospice. If you are interested in donating to Ganga Prem Hospice, you can do so through a donation to End of Life Care International with a memo specifying you would like it to go to Ganga Prem. Today’s podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow This time on the Be Here Now...

Guiding listeners through the seven factors of enlightenment, Trudy Goodman shows us the play of awakening in daily life. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode, Trudy Goodman holds a talk on:Loosening our grip on self-involvementLiving lovingly and joyfully in our daily livesThe seven factors of enlightenmentThe things that torment us and connect usHow...

Taking us on a pilgrimage through Buddhist teachings, Gil Fronsdal describes meeting the dharma in ourselves. This recording from Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.org Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal teaches on:Meeting the dharma in ourselves through direct experiencesGoing into the...

In a dharma talk on relative and ultimate reality, JoAnna Hardy discusses how to hold the complexity of life. This lecture was recorded at the Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds and originally published by Dharmaseed. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode, JoAnna Hardy offers a talk on:How and why we keep returning to our sufferingDominant...

In this recording from the Ram Dass Fellowship, Jamie Catto describes surrendering to the power of Yin in our daily lives. To learn more and sign up for the Ram Dass Fellowship, visit RamDass.org/Fellowship. To support this free offering, please consider leaving a donation at RamDass.org/Donate. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast,...

Exploring mental constructs, Gil Fronsdal describes how we construct the relationships to our experiences. This recording from the Insight Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.org On this episode of the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal talks about these topics:A four line Buddhist chant in PaliThe impermanence of all constructed thingsMindfulness and the practice of noticingExploring one’s relationship to the present momentMoving our attention with a deliberate...

Trudy Goodman explains how we can practice compassionate presence in all moments, even those that are uncomfortable. This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Trudy Goodman delves into:How we often overlook the simple practices that will make us spiritually contentedMeditating while doing ordinary thingsRetreats and being in the presentBuddhist cosmology as representation of our own awakened qualitiesOffering compassion to ourselves and to othersTolerating the raw experience of being aliveGetting...