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. 183 - Demystifying Mindfulness with Sharon Salzberg & Spring Washam

    Ep. 183 - Demystifying Mindfulness with Sharon Salzberg & Spring Washam
    Oct 25 2024
    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 the end of suffering by examining our own body internallyThe importance of posture in meditationViewing the present moment without distortionOur relationship to what is arisingToxic happiness and negation of the realBeing with what is actually happening moment to momentMetta as an open, connected, interested quality of the heartA closing metta meditation from SharonRecognizing the power of good that moves through usAbout Sharon Salzberg:Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness.Her forthcoming release, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom, is set for release in April of 2023 from Flatiron Books. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed five million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond.Learn more about Sharon and order your copy of her new book at www.sharonsalzberg.comAbout 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.“There is something really important about us being willing to be with what is true, not with what we want, but the real experience. We wake up, there’s heartache, I didn’t want heartache but there it is. Can I be real with that?” – 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 2 mins
  • Ep. 182 – Facing Death w/ Trudy Goodman

    Ep. 182 – Facing Death w/ Trudy Goodman
    Oct 16 2024

    Sharing her recent near-death experience, Trudy Goodman explains how and why dharma practice is essential to facing death without fear.

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    This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Buddhist teacher Trudy Goodman shares:

    • How even slivers of wisdom light up our life
    • Her personal story of a near-death experience and choosing to live
    • The imminence of death and knowing it can come at any time
    • The extraordinary opportunity it is to be born
    • The value in each moment we are aware
    • The way that life takes care of life
    • Learning to rest and not push
    • Freedom from surrendering to the way things are
    • How who we are is more important than what we do
    • The way that pain concentrates the mind and tests our practice
    • Appreciating all of the little moments that act as dharma doorways

    This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed

    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.

    “Who we are is more important than what we do. It just is. It’s really true that just being alive is a gift, even though there are moments when it doesn’t feel like that.” – Trudy Goodman

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    51 mins
  • Ep. 181 - Mindfulness of Emotions with Buddhist Teacher, Gil Fronsdal

    Ep. 181 - Mindfulness of Emotions with Buddhist Teacher, Gil Fronsdal
    Oct 16 2024

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

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    In this talk, Gil Fronsdal lectures about:

    • Identifying emotions without getting lost in the story
    • The necessity and benefits of feeling pain
    • Knowing what's happening as it's happening
    • How most of us are driven by our desires and aversions
    • Simply knowing and how free our knowing can be
    • Making room for our experiences
    • How our emotions let us know what we should pay attention to
    • Learning how our emotions live in the intelligent system of our body
    • How reactivity blocks us from processing emotions
    • Being in our body and allowing processes to unfold


    “One of the primary functions of emotions is to let us know something is important. They’re knocking on the door of our capacity to know. They are not accidents, they’re not incidental, they’re not annoyances, they’re not unfortunate. They’re actually a very important form of which your inner life is presenting itself to you.” – Gil Fronsdal

    This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed


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    21 mins

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This was a huge disappointment. I love this man but there are so many little jokes, and the crowd is just cackling along. Especially one particular lady who constantly laughs so loud, like it's the first joke she's ever heard.

So anyway, we get to the end where it's finally serious, and he just gives this basic, run of the mill breathing exercise. Disappointing.

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