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Send us a textIn this episode of the Oldish Book Club, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price, Gregg Kaloust, and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan talk about Walking Each Other Home,Conversations on Loving and Dying, by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush. The authors are well-known teachers, activists, and writers. Their conversations took place as Ram Dass was dying, and form an essential guide to the arts of loving deeply, and dying into love.The cover art for this episode is a bench in a local cemetery, where my friend and I often sit during our morning walks. The inscription led me to this book. - GreggYou can find this book and others by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush on Amazon by clicking here. (If you buy a book after clicking on this link we may get a small commission, which helps to support the podcast)Support the showConnect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.comYou can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.comThanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.
Send us a textIn this episode Oldish co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust start out grumpy, but lighten up when they realize this is the 50th Episode of Oldish!Our next episode will be another meeting of our Oldish Book Club, which many of you have told us are your favorite episodes. This time we'll be talking about Walking Each Other Home, by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, two well-known spiritual teachers and old friends who got together just before the death of Ram Dass to talk about life, spirit, love, and dying. We all loved it, and found it enormously moving. Please read it, and join us for this crucial Oldish conversation.Support the showConnect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.comYou can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.comThanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.
This episode chronicles the hard earned spiritual unfoldment of the great saint, author and editor Parvati Markus, who's first acid trip (Golden Sunshine/Owlsey acid) in 1969 led her directly to a first encounter with a freshly anointed Ram Dass, beaming with light at his fathers farm. Parvati became Ram Dass's personal secretary for two years, helping him edit his spiritual classic Be Here Now while saving up money to eventually travel to India with her heart set solely on meeting Neem Karoli Baba, who she believed to be the source of Ram Dass's inner light. After an arduous journey traveling through India for the first time in 1971, she contracted hepatitis while traveling, she eventually made it to darshan with Maharaj-ji, and reads her journal notes from her first encounter with him. Parvati is a Love Serve Remember rebel, who for 7 months lived with Maharaj-ji alongside her early cronies Ram Dass, Krishna Das, Mirabai Bush, Rameshwar Das and a young Raghu Markus - who Parvati spontaneously married at the behest of Maharaj-ji on this trip, presiding himself over the ceremony. Parvati then had the incredible honor of becoming Maharaj-ji's "private secretary", where she experienced countless first hand account miracles and a lifetime's worth of wisdom and grace, which she emanates. Parvati is the author of Whisper In The Heart, and Love Everyone, both books inspired by the wisdom and presence of Neem Karoli Baba, and has been a contributing editor for 50 years of a range of Love Serve Remember authors. Parvati is an inspirational woman who exhibited impeccable devotion, respect and selfless service throughout her spiritual journey, and shares stories generously and in great detail throughout this episode. Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom Of Neem Karoli Baba: https://amzn.to/3znSLsE Whisper In The Heart: https://amzn.to/3ZmmEUY PARVATI MARKUS / WEB: www.parvatimarkus.com LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited, and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter. INSTAGRAM: @loveistheauthor CONTACT/MGMT/INFO: lacee@loveistheauthor.com
This episode was recorded in 2020. Mirabai Bush teaches contemplative practices and develops programs through the application of contemplative principles and values to organizational life. Her work with individuals and organizations includes entrepreneurial project management, compassionate staff-board relations, organizational leadership, public relations, communication, networking, and strategic relationship building all through the lens of contemplative practice in action. Her spiritual studies include two years in India with Hindu teacher Neemkaroli Baba; meditation in monasteries with Buddhist teachers Shri S.N. Goenka, Anagarika Munindra, and IMS guiding teachers; and studies with Pir Vilayat Khan and Tibetan Buddhist lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Gelek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others; and five years of intensive practice in Iyengar yoga and five years of Aikido under Kanai Sensei.
Continuing his conversation with Mirabai Bush and Sharon Salzberg from our previous episode, Ram Dass explores the path from suffering to grace and talks about the lessons he learned from his stroke.This recording was made at the 2012 Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat in Maui. Check out the first half of this conversation: Bhakti and The Path of LoveToday's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/ramdassWant to be part of the discussion about this episode of Here and Now? Join the Ram Dass Fellowship virtual meetup on November 22nd at 8 pm EST. Sign up for the General Fellowship group to receive more information.“I remember the moment I got there. I was in the hospital, but all of the people around me were like, ‘Oh, terrible, terrible stroke, terrible.' I looked up at Maharajji and he was smiling and smiling, in a picture. And I said to him, ‘You always gave me grace in my life. What happened to you? I was stroked. Did you go out for lunch or something?' And the positive radiations continue to come from him. So that was fierce grace.” – Ram DassSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
From the 2012 Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat in Maui, Ram Dass is joined by Mirabai Bush and Sharon Salzberg for a freeform jam session dedicated to the path of love.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/ramdass"I was meditating on loving everything. I looked at the wall, and I loved the wall. Well, I said, ‘It's God's manifestation. I love it for that reason. People created it. It's made of cells… each one has God in it.' But I couldn't rationalize it, I just loved it. I love it. Just this, just this.” – Ram DassSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, listen to Ulli and I give you a female and male voice for Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's Just Like Me meditation. This is part of our podcast series wherein we find ways to strengthen relationships and intimacy. In practicing this, we hope that we help you in your personal relationships as well. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts
Fear can lead us to do regretful, hateful, and even violent things. Lion's Roar & NYZC's new online course Medicine for Fear is inspired by Zen teacher Eihei Dogen's essential instructions for awakening. The course, featuring Sensei Koshin and Sensei Chodo, as well as Mushim Ikeda, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Kodo Nishimura, and Mirabai Bush, offers […] The post Fear and Knowing How to Be Satisfied | Koshin Paley Ellison appeared first on New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.
Fear can lead us to do regretful, hateful, and even violent things. Lion's Roar's new online course Medicine for Fear, inspired by Zen teacher Eihei Dogen's essential instructions for awakening, offers a way to minimize fear's impact on us—featuring Koshin Paley Ellison and Chodo Robert Campbell of New York Zen Center, as well as Mushim Ikeda, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Kodo Nishimura, and Mirabai Bush. In this clip from Medicine for Fear, Koshin talks about the problem of never feeling like you have enough.
Mirabai Bush welcomes Iris Brilliant for a conversation about her work as a money coach and how she helps people align their wealth with social justice. Iris Brilliant is a social justice money coach based in Berkeley, CA. Her life mission is to support people with wealth to move money to social justice and to transform how we relate to power, belonging, self-worth, and community along the way. Iris is a certified Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), via the Co-Active Training Institute. She is also a donor advisor at Movement Voter Project, where she supports major donors to fund grassroots organizations in swing states. Read more about her work at www.irisbrilliant.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
You don't want to miss this layered conversation that addresses racism, privilege and fragility. Experts Rhonda Magee, Ram Mahalingam and Mirabai Bush talk to Barry about contemplative practice and equity issues. The four of them draw on their experiences and mindfulness practices to provide a rich dialogue on navigating racial justice. Show notes: Rhonda V. Magee is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco. Also trained in sociology and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), she is a highly practiced facilitator of trauma-sensitive, restorative MBSR interventions for lawyers and law students, and for minimizing the effects of social-identity-based bias. Ram Mahalingam is a cultural psychologist, award-winning researcher, teacher, mentor, artist, and filmmaker. His current research concerns nurturing a caring and compassionate workplace that treats its workers with dignity. Mirabai Bush is a senior fellow at the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She has led mindfulness training for lawyers, judges, educators, environmental leaders, activists, students, and the army, and was a key developer of Search Inside Yourself at Google.
Mirabai Bush welcomes Rhonda V. Magee for a conversation around the importance of narrative in social justice, the connection between love and justice, and much more. Rhonda V. Magee is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersections of anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices. She is an internationally-recognized innovator, storyteller, thought and practice leader on integrating Mindfulness into Higher Education, Law and Social Justice, and author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness. Learn more about Rhonda at rhondavmagee.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Dr. Larry Brilliant joins Mirabai Bush to share wisdom about public and spiritual health, eradicating smallpox in India, the miracle of Maharajji, and the centripetal force of love.Dr. Larry Brilliant has engaged with some of the most prominent thought leaders, spiritual masters, heroes, and icons in the world, including Neem Karoli Baba, Martin Luther King, Jr., Steve Jobs, Mikhail Gorbachev, Wavy Gravy, the Grateful Dead, the Dalai Lama, and Barack Obama. His life's journey across continents has resulted in the direct involvement of some of the most significant medical, spiritual, and social achievements of the past century: the eradication of smallpox in India, curing blindness in over 4 million people, introducing Maharajji's teachings to the Woodstock Generation, and launching Google's philanthropic enterprises, and more, outlined in his book, Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History. For more info, please visit LarryBrilliant.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Mirabai Bush welcomes Bidisha Banerjee to share stories of the Ganga River, which invite us into the re-enchantment and allyship of devotional ecology with our environment's sacred landscapes.Bidisha Banerjee has been fascinated with the Ganga ever since she pretended, as a child, that the Kolkata municipal bathwater was Gangajal. Trained in ethnicity, race, and migration and climate change policy at Yale, she started following India's “dirty, sacred river” from its source to the sea in 2009. A former program and curriculum director for the Dalai Lama Fellows, and now a somatic leadership coach, she lives with her family in Oakland, California, the midpoint between her two homes–Kolkata and Kansas. Her first book, Superhuman River: Stories of the Ganga, was published by Aleph Book Company in 2020. For more information, please visit Bidisha-Banerjee.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In the book Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying, Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush explore the ways in which we can help ourselves and others leave this world consciously.
Thursdays your questions are answered right. Email podcast@mindbodyspace.com to ask questions for me or my guests. Marc Lesser is CEO of ZBA, a speaker, facilitator, workshop leader, and executive coach. He co-created Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute at Google with Chade Meng Tan and Mirabai Bush. Go to Episode 47 to hear our full conversation. Marc has written four books, his latest: Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen Sign up for Marc's weekly online meditations open to all. More information HERE
Marc Lesser is a coach, grandfather, CEO of ZBA Associates, and the Author of four books. The most recently published book is Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen. Marc asks, "What could your work, and your life, look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more peaceful world at the same time?" Marc shares tips on managing uncertainty and understanding that it is a constant truth in life and that as long as we don't resist it, we can be in harmony with not knowing anything with certainty. We discuss his journey of finding zen in college, 10 years at a monastery, becoming an entrepreneur, and finally coming full circle by merging his zen roots with the business of bringing mindfulness into the corporate world. Marc has taught his 7-step proven method to leaders at Google, Genentech, SAP, Facebook, and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies for over 20 years. Marc along with Chade-Meng Tan and Mirabai Bush develop the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program within Google – a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training for leaders which teaches the art of integrating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and business savvy for creating great corporate cultures and a better world. Today's leaders are challenged with a complexity that can lead to stress and burnout. A mindful leader, according to Marc Lesser, Author, speaker, Zen teacher, "maybe one of THE most important competencies in business today if leaders are to move beyond fear, anxiety, nagging self-doubt, and the feeling of constant overwhelm." "All of us are leaders in one way or another. Marc Lesser applies the power of mindfulness and compassion to guiding and bringing the best out of others." Rick Hanson, Ph.D
This interview with Mirabai Bush is a focused conversation on grief. This is a follow-up on episode 1 on death. What happens when other people around my die and how do I deal with death? In this conversation, Mirabai talks about her experiences with dealing with the death of her friends like her close friend and collaborated, Ram Dass. https://www.ramdass.org/walking-each-other-home/ http://www.mirabaibush.com/
In this guided meditation we'll scan the body and focus on loving awareness. For example: "I am not these ears, or what they hear... I am loving awareness." This meditation was inspired by Ram Dass and the book 'Walking Each Other Home' cowritten with his friend Mirabai Bush. I finished this fantastic, and very insightful book, last Autumn, shortly before he died on December 22, 2019. There were many years I didn't realize he was a gay man. I'm grateful for his queer presence and powerful teachings. XXOO Alexander
If you've ever wanted to learn more about yourself and want to live your most magnificent life, then do we have the Walking Each Other Home show for you. Today I'll be talking with Mirabai Bush, spiritual teacher, best-selling author, and co-author along with Ram Dass of several very special books, including one of the most beautiful and perhaps most important books I've ever read, and a new all-time favorite, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. That is just what I want to talk with her about today, about conversations on love and dying, and what it means for you. Walking Each Other Home Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: How did Mirabai first meet Ram Dass? Who is Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Majaraji? What are our possibilities as human beings? What does it mean to look inside yourself all day – and how does it change you? What did Mirabai learn from her first experience in India with death, and what can we learn from it? What does it mean (from Ram Dass) to snuggle up to one's suffering? And to snuggle up to death? What does it mean to shred roles and why is it so beneficial for us? What happened to Mirabai that nearly killed her, and how did it change her perspective? What can we learn about emptiness, zen and the meaning of life from Zen Teacher (Norman Fischer)? What can Ram Dass share with us about living? What can we learn from Ram Dass about his first experience with psychedelics? What is interconnection and how does it affect our lives? What do we need to know about how to die??? What does it truly mean to let go of attachment? What is the importance of a gratitude practice? What is the importance of hugging? What is a mala ceremony and how can it help us??? To find out more visit: https://www.ramdass.org/ www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree Additional Resources: www.automaticwriting.com The Most Revolutionary, life-changing tool to help you tap into your inner-wisdom www.inspirenationuniversity.com ……. Michael and Jessica have kickstarted their RV trip! Follow their exciting journey and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access. Go to https://www.patreon.com/inspirenation For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: https://inspirenationshow.com/ Follow Inspire Nation, and the lives of Michael and Jessica, on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/InspireNationLive/ Find us on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@inspirenationshow
Nina Rao hosts Satsang elders Mirabai Bush, Parvati Markus, and Radha Baum in sharing stories from the female perspective about Indian mystic and Guru, Neem Karoli Baba.Joining together in a virtual remembrance and celebration of the life and teachings of Indian Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, on the anniversary of his Mahasamadhi, Nina invites powerful female Satsang elders Mirabai Bush, Parvati Markus, and Radha Baum to share stories of their time spent in his presence after following the path laid out by Ram Dass to India in the early 1970s. Illuminating the deep transmission of gathering in community and sharing stories of the Guru, Nina welcomes us all to meet where our rivers merge, joining in Satsang and darshan of the divine loving presence known affectionately as Maharajji.
This interview with Mirabai Bush is a focused conversation on death and dying. Mirabai co-wrote a book with Ram Dass on death and dying shortly before his own passing. We discuss the role of death in life, why death isn't something to be feared and how to see death as a natural part of living. We discuss how to reperceive our relationship to death and what gifts does an awareness of death give you. As always, if you like the podcast, subscribe to it on the various platforms and share it with a friend. We start the conversation off with Mirabai asking me about my own experiences with death. https://www.ramdass.org/walking-each-other-home/ http://www.mirabaibush.com/
Mirabai Bush (Friend of Ram Dass! Author of Walking Each Other Home!) makes it weird!
Mirabai Bush teaches contemplative practices and develops programs through the application of contemplative principles and values to organizational life. Her spiritual studies include two years in India with Hindu teacher Neemkaroli Baba; meditation in monasteries with Buddhist teachers. Mirabai Bush was a co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director there until 2008. Mirabai has trekked, traveled, and lived in many countries, including Mexico, Costa Rica, India, Nepal, Morocco, and the Caribbean. She is an organic gardener in Western Massachusetts and the mother of one adult son. Check out her book with Ram Dass Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying Please enjoy! Please visit https://nishantgarg.me/podcasts for more info. Follow Nishant: Instagram: instagram.com/garg_nishant https://www.facebook.com/NishantMindfulnessMatters/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-garg-b7a20339/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nishant82638150
Konda Mason, Mirabai Bush, and Raghu Markus join for a conversation on Cultivating Resilience in the Face of Racial Injustice and Disparity.Dissecting the lie of “not seeing race” and the “Privilege of not knowing”, our speakers examine the intersections of land, race, money, and spirit, and the roles they play in the framework of our society. Through compassion and finding ways to accept unsavory truths, we can learn to open our hearts and realize our interconnection with everyone.
This meditation cultivates compassion for better relationships. Who couldn't use a bit more of that? This is adapted from a meditation I experienced at the Omega Institute when I took the Search Inside Yourself Course with Chade Meng Tan and Mirabai Bush. As with all meditations, please find a safe, comfortable spot. DO NOT DRIVE or operate moving vehicles while listening. This is a very relaxing listen with calming background music.
Mirabai Bush is Senior Fellow and founder of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society, which encourages contemplative practice and perspective to create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society. Mirabai Bush is co-author of several books including two with Ram Dass: Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service, and her latest collaboration, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Love and Dying. Find out more at mirabaibush.com.The music provided for this show is thanks to Spring Groove and is called Love is the Answer - https://open.spotify.com/album/649zFR7CjIUrBwjjtVpF3E
Join me as I read through Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's book 'Walking Each Other Home.' There are so many potent practices here to help us get through this strange time with clarity and an open heart.Click here to buy the book.The audio version on Audible is great too!Be safe beautiful friends.Support the show (https://stuartwatkins.org/podcast/)
In this new episode of The Indie Spiritualist Podcast, Colin McEnroe joins Chris Grosso for a conversation about our spiritual health, how we are shaped by faith, and staying connected beyond death.Colin McEnroe hosts the daily WNPR show, The Colin McEnroe Show. He is a weekly columnist and blogger for The Hartford Courant and a contributing editor at Men's Health. He is the author of three books and one play. His work has appeared on the New York Times Op-Ed Page and in Bicycling magazine, Best Life, Cosmopolitan and Forbes FYI. Be sure to subscribe to The Colin McEnroe Show on your favorite podcast player to check out Colin's exploration of Ram Dass' life and legacy with Chris, Sharon Salzberg, and Mirabai Bush on the Jan 9th Episode of The Colin McEnroe Show.
Ram Dass' 1971 book, "Be Here Now," was the gateway drug into spirituality for a lot of young people seeking answers in the era of Vietnam. Dass first tried being a psychology professor at Harvard, where he and colleague Timothy Leary sought God through experiments with psychedelics. Then, he went to India and found his guru, who taught him how to feel high without the drugs. Many young people followed him to India, The chose to feed the hungry and serve the people, just as Ram Dass tended to the dying, the blind, and the incarcerated. They searched for meaning away from the political tumult of 1960's America. There are parallels to today. Ram Dass died last month. But his words and life are inspiring a new generation of followers who are using the teachings of Ram Dass to find something bigger than the division and hatred evident in this political moment. GUESTS: Chris Grosso is a writer, public speaker, and author with Simon & Schuster. He’s also the host of The Indie Spiritualist Podcast on Ram Dass Be Here Now Network. Mirabai Bush - is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and a founding board member with Ram Dass of the Seva Foundation. She is co-author with Ram Dass of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying Sharon Saltzberg is the Cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in and the author of 10 books, including NYT bestseller, “Lovingkindness." Her newest book, “Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World,” will be published this summer. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For Episode 115 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon sits down with Mirabai Bush and Raghu Markus in remembrance of the life and teachings of Ram Dass, who passed away on December 22, 2019.In this intimate conversation, these three longtime friends speak candidly about their personal loss in Ram Dass’ death and the loss the larger community is experiencing. They share old stories about knowing Ram Dass since the 1970s, and how his friendship has shaped each of their lives. They also discuss the book that Mirabai co-wrote with Ram Dass, “Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying” which was released in 2018.
Mirabai Bush teaches, practices, and develops programs through the application of contemplative principles and values to organizational life. She is a cofounder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, founding board member of the Seva Foundation, and authored many books. Her most recent book (coauthored with Ram Dass) is called “Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying”. In this episode we talk about her new book, moments with Ram Dass, being a loving rock for the dying and bereaved, the death of her guru (Neem Karoli Baba) and her friend (Bokara), and a grief dream of Neem Karoli Baba You can find more about Mirabai at www.mirabaibush.com
It's a bit of a pensive, present, kind of thing. It's the kind of yay I woke up with and the kind of yay I'm noticing...today. Remembering from listening to Mirabai Bush talk about Walking each other home on Episode 177 of https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast More on Walking each other home (have not read yet). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode, Celine and Jeremiah discuss duality, drugs, and (tarot) decks! People, books, ideas, and places we reference in this episode: Ahimsa (Do No Harm), "Dirty Pictures" Documentary, Alexander Shulgin, Albert Hofmann, MDMA/Molly, "DMT:The Spirit Molecule" Documentary, Chinese Medicine, CBD, Yin Chiao, Oil of Oregano, Reishi Mushrooms, Fire Cider, Sacred Geometry, Magnets, How Do They Work?, Richard Bartlett (teacher at Omega Institute), Omega Institute, Shaman Durek,Reiki,Tarot,The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck,Buddhism & Suffering,"Mirrors" - Justin Timberlake,Ayahuasca,"Walking Each Other Home" by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush, We hope you enjoy! (Legal disclaimer: “As Woo Woo As You Want” does not condone the use of any illegal substances. All statements/comments in this podcast are for informational purposes only.)
For the 94th episode of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon shares the stage with Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush!Live from the 2018 “Open Your Heart in Paradise” retreat, Sharon speaks with Ram Dass and Mirabai about embracing the dying process. How can we be with one another as souls, to live and die consciously? The group of old friends explore these questions and share a reading from Mirabai and Ram Dass’s final book, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying.
This week's guest, Mirabai Bush, has co-written a book with spiritual teacher Ram Dass entitled "Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. In the book, and in our conversation, Bush explores how death can help us cultivate gratitude, compassion, mindfulness, and an abiding joy in the simple beauty of living. The Plug Zone Website: http://www.mirabaibush.com/ Website: https://www.ramdass.org/
This week on the Mindrolling Podcast, Mirabai Bush shares a conversation with Raghu about reworking the conditioning of the brain, bringing clarity to the moment and the practice of being with someone in their time of dying.
If you've ever wanted to learn more about yourself and living your most magnificent life, then do we have the Walking Each Other Home show for you. Today I'll be talking with Mirabai Bush, spiritual teacher, best-selling author, and co-author along with Ram Dass of several very special books, including one of the most beautiful and perhaps most important books I've ever Read, and a new ALL TIME FAVORITE Walking Each Other Home. And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, About conversations on love and dying, and what it means for you. Walking Each Other Home Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: How did Mirabai first meet Ram Dass? Who is Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Majaraji? What are our possibilities as human beings? What does it mean to look inside yourself all day – and how does it change you? What did Mirabai learn from her first experience in India with death, and what can we learn from it? What does it mean (from Ram Dass) to snuggle up to one's suffering? And to snuggle up to death? What does it mean to shred roles and why is it so beneficial for us? What happened to Mirabai that nearly killed her, and how did it change her perspective? What can we learn about emptiness, zen and the meaning of life from Zen Teacher (Norman Fischer)? What can Ram Dass share with us about living? What can we learn from Ram Dass about his first experience with pyschedelics? What is interconnection and how does it affect our lives? What do we need to know about how to die??? What does it truly mean to let go of attachment? What's the importance of a gratitude practice? What's the importance of hugging? What's a mala ceremony and how can it help us??? For more info visit: RamDass.com Or Contemplativemind.org/tree Ram Dass's Co-Author Mirabai Bush on Brilliant Lessons Learned for Living by Facing Life's End! + Guided Meditation | Health | Law of Attraction | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire
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Mirabai Bush teaches contemplative practices and develops organizational programs based on contemplative principles and values. Among other contributions, she was a co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society; a founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization; and a co-developer of the curriculum for Google’s Search Inside Yourself program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence. She has also served on the boards of Shambhala Sun, Omega Institute, Military Fitness Institute, the Dalai Lama Fellows, and Love Serve Remember. A friend and associate of Ram Dass for nearly 50 years, she co-authored with him Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service. Their current collaboration is Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. We spoke about her rich spiritual history, about Ram Dass, and mainly about dealing with death—both of others and ourselves. Learn more about Mirabai Bush here: http://www.mirabaibush.com/#about
Co-creator of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. “There is a calming, quieting, centering practice that leads to insight in every tradition.” Contemplative practice and social change. Mindful emailing. Creative, relational, ritual, cyclical. Mirabai Bush works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, she is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google’s popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush’s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture. Mirabai Bush co-founded the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is the author of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education and has written two books with Ram Dass: Compassion in Action and Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Mirabai Bush — Contemplation, Life, and Work.” Find more at onbeing.org.
Co-creator of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. “There is a calming, quieting, centering practice that leads to insight in every tradition.” Contemplative practice and social change. Mindful emailing. Creative, relational, ritual, cyclical. Mirabai Bush works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, she is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google’s popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush’s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture. Mirabai Bush co-founded the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is the author of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education and has written two books with Ram Dass: Compassion in Action and Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
This guided meditation helps to find the similarities among us all. We are asked to look at each other with compassion and see how we all relate. This practice can be done while you think of a friend or a difficult person in your life. Alternatively, it can be done with a partner sitting across from you. Show notes: Meditation by Mirabai Bush Mirabai Bush is a senior fellow at the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She has led mindfulness training for lawyers, judges, educators, environmental leaders, activists, students, and the army, and was a key developer of Search Inside Yourself at Google.
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Mirabai Bush and Raghu Markus join Ram Dass to celebrate the release of Ram Dass and Mirabai’s new book, Walking Each Other Home, and share a conversation about how embracing death can allow us to live more fully.Pick up your hardcover copy of Walking Each Other Home and learn to embrace the mystery of death with compassion and love: Walking Each Other Home
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) is a world-renowned spiritual teacher and the author of the indispensable classic Be Here Now. Despite suffering a massive stroke that left him with aphasia, Ram Dass continues to write and teach from his home in Maui. His longtime friend Mirabai Bush is the founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, and was the one of the co-creators of Google's Search Inside Yourself program. They have teamed with Sounds True to publish Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. In this special episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush about changing our society's dysfunctional relationship to dying, focusing on how to ease fears around the process. They talk about facing a lifetime of regrets and why going into our last moments consciously is so important. Finally, Mirabai leads listeners in a practice designed to help release attachments and comments on why grieving is an important act of love. (63 minutes) Tami's Takeaway: Ram Dass, who is now 87 years old, has planned at the time of his death for there to be an open-air funeral in Maui. He has even secured a government license for this to happen. Ever the teacher (even when it comes to his own death), Ram Dass's intention is to introduce Westerners to teachings from the East—in this case, the value of sitting with a burning corpse while contemplating impermanence and living whole-heartedly. Of course, we don't need to wait until we are at an open-air funeral to engage in such contemplation. We are each asked to die in some way every day, to let go of an old image of ourselves or an outmoded configuration of some kind. Can we embrace the dying we are going through right now? And in the process, experience our hearts breaking open so that we can live and love fully, without constraint?
Mirabai found herself moving from working on her Ph.D. in a very tumultuous university environment in the midst of the political unrest in the late 19060s. In a search to find another way of being Mirabai began her journey around the world. She began in Europe and started working her way East across the country traveling by land across the Middle East, through the mountains of a very peaceful Afghanistan and Pakistan and eventually found her way to India. She didn't have a desire to learn meditation, but when she got to India there was a ten-day meditation instruction being offered to westerners for the first time by a Burmese teacher. Having never crossed her legs and meditated this was a very new experience for her. The first three days was just focused on cultivating a one pointed attention, and from there they were then able to begin learning how to direct her attention towards a specified path. Mirabai ended up taking 3-4 more courses in a row. She thought she would stay for two weeks in India but stayed for two years. Mirabai started a small company with her husband at the time in the 1970s. Having a small business that lasted about 13 years. It employed around one-hundred people, she was able to experiment with meditation and mindfulness practices as part of her company's culture. Beginning in 1995, she started bringing mindfulness into corporate America. Her early perspectives on mindfulness came from a literature background. She was constantly looking to the outside for a deeper understanding. It wasn't until she began her mindfulness practice in India that she began to build her understanding of herself. Mirabai explained that, “It had never occurred to me to look inside my own mind to understand more deeply the nature of reality.” “I also saw that by looking at my own mind, first through these practices I could get calm, quiet, and stable enough to be able to look at my own mind. Before that there was so much busyness in there from always trying to take information from the outside and stirring it up… I began to see that we can understand a lot about reality, about inner and outer reality, by simply looking at our own minds.” Mirabai described her early understandings from her mindfulness practice as an awakening. “I began to see how I was creating a lot of the problems in my life, emotions would arise and I would act on them without recognizing that I had a choice. I was so identified with my thoughts and my emotions… I better get really angry about that, without even thinking ‘I better get angry', but just immediately having that response of being really angry.” “When your awareness gets refined enough you can begin to sense an emotion like that as a sensation in the body, anger, jealousy, envy, the whole range. You begin to sense it in your body, and then you begin to recognize that.” She then continued to explain that you begin to recognize ti earlier and stopping and returning to a practice of breathing. From that you begin to realize that you are not your anger. “In the moment that you have the choice to act on it or not to act, that gives you a lot of freedom.” “We are really our awareness, and as we begin to become more familiar with the part of us that is not the thought”. “You are not your thoughts, you have the choice to act on it or not.” “Mindfulness is very simple, but is not easy to do, because the mind is so busy.” Mirabai continued to explain that we usually use the breath, and even then the mind runs away so quickly. By maintaining a level of patience, and cultivating a sense of non-judging, you may begin to gain much more freedom in your life. In the workplace Mirabai gave a number of reasons how mindfulness can support and help you through your workday. We are always moving so quickly at work, mindfulness enables you to pay attention to priorities.It helps you see each thing for what it is, and remember what it is that you intended to do with this day, helping you stay focused on what you hoped to accomplish. Mindfulness allows you to form new categories, allowing you to expand your understanding by noticing and identify new things that you might have overlooked. This allows you to be more innovative and to broaden your perspective on your work. Truly essential to any workplace is effective communication. It is mindful listening that allows you to truly be able to gain a deep understanding of what others are trying to tell you. “You are able to let go in your own mind of all the thoughts that are arising, all the ways in which you are going to fix that problem, all the ways in which that very thing has happened to you and you can't wait to say it. Maybe it is a difficult situation, you have already established in your mind what you are going to say when that person finishes talking and you are paying more attention to that rather than what they are saying.” In mindful listening you are able to let your thoughts go and you maintain an awareness of the individual speaking. It begins to cultivate a form of trust that is essential and difficult to build. The trust and positive relationship built from mindful listening changes the game on how you may follow-up, how you communicate with those people, creating a much more positive and supportive atmosphere. “The benefits of mindfulness don't stop at the end of the workday, they are the same qualities and capacities that make a successful home life as well.” Mirabai Bush made it a point to explain that integrating mindfulness into organizations requires a level of support and a climate where it is encouraged. She explained that mindfulness has two main entry points into the workplace. One is by the senior leaders make the decision to embrace mindfulness in the workplace and begin to build opportunities to allow the people in the organization to participate. The second was where a member of the organization decides to find a way to bring it into the organization. Google's Search Inside Yourself Program began with a single engineer, Chade-Meng Tan, establishing a mindfulness program with a few dozen people. Mirabai was a key supporter to help Chade-Meng develop the Search Inside Yourself program. The program was successful, and kept growing in size. It is the most popular program among Google employees. What is necessary for it to begin to change the organization is for there to be internal support for it by people in power of the organizations. Mirabai described a recent mindfulness program she led at an insurance company. She explained that it was just a half-day and provided a nice introduction, but for mindfulness in an organization to really promote a change it is something that needs to be ongoing. She explained that with a few individuals in the organization who receive a little more training in how to lead sessions, it can truly take off. Mirabai answered the question, how do I know mindfulness can help my organization? A high level of competitiveness coupled with a lot of intense distractions. Mindfulness practice can support a reorientation back towards an increased focus, improved homelife, and reduced stress. Decision making in the organization could improve. What might look like stress, tunnel vision, or a lack of high quality decision making can be improved with mindfulness. Increase a stableness and a calmness that allows an individual to overcome a high demand work environment. “Mindfulness doesn't stop all these things from arising, it teaches you how to respond instead of react.” Mirabai went on to explain that “if you just sit for twenty minutes a day things begin to change. It takes time. It takes time to develop a depth of insight, but it only takes ten minutes to drop your cortisol levels.” Cortisol levels are are associated with increased levels of stress. Mirabai explained in our conversation that meditation and mindfulness practices have been linked directly to decreasing this hormone also tied to qualitative responses in studies to the feeling of increased calmness and lower stress. In this episode, Mirabai brought to us a story of the mindful sniper. In this story a US sniper was on a rooftop in Afghanistan and was faced with the difficult task of saving school children from a suicide bomber. The American sniper credits his experience in mindfulness practice to his ability to see an opportunity that was outside of the typical training and allowed him to save the lives of school children. Our conversation moved to Mirabai's experience teaching Stanford graduates who didn't have a lot of experience in social awareness, compassion, well-wishing, love, and the desires of others. Mirabai supported the development of the capacity of these leaders to be able to reach their fulfillment in their work and in the interactions with those around them. Compassion building mindfulness practices can be a tremendous benefit to those who are from cultures where kindness, compassion, and connection are not the norm or expectation. You can learn more about Mirabai Bush and the wonderful work she is doing at: https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/contemind/donation.jsp www.mirabaibush.com
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's "Going Home" and Emily Dickinson's poem "Our Journey Had Advanced" in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
Mirabai Bush speaks with Melanie about the most important lessons she has learned along her journey of awakening and reflects on the experience of co-writing with Ram Dass for the final time. Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying is now available for pre-order! In Walking Each Other Home, Ram Dass and Mirabai explore the ways in which we can be present with dying and help ourselves and others leave this world consciously. Through artful storytelling and practical guidance, these two teachers offer an intimate, thoughtful, and uplifting exploration of the greatest of human mysteries—and show us how death gives us an unparalleled opening to cultivate gratitude, compassion, mindfulness, and an abiding joy in the simple beauty of living. Pre-order here: Walking Each Other Home
Mirabai Bush joins Chris for a raw conversation on dying and shares wisdom on how we can grieve in a healthy way and learn from the lessons death has to teach us.
Through relaxation you can break the vicious circle of pain and stress. This podcast takes you through some easy to learn methods of relaxation, helping it to become part of your daily life and improving your wellbeing. It also lists the benefits of meditation and looks at the supporting scientific evidence, examining why relaxation should be an integral component in your recovery. Relaxation Relaxation is an integral component of cognitive behavioral treatment programs for chronic pain.1 Taking care of stress and anxiety as a chronic pain patient is crucial for your recovery. Meditation Meditation is also a great way to built relaxation into your daily life. There are many different ways of practicing meditation and you have to find what works best for you. Many people enrich their lives through practicing meditation. When you read interviews with successful CEO´s, entrepreneurs or celebrities who have incorporated meditation routines in their lives it is astonishing to see the huge benefits they experience. Personal benefits of people who meditate regularly: more happiness having more energy having more creativity living more efficiently a better understanding of ones own emotions more sensitivity to the feelings and emotions of others more control over ones own emotions less pressured by your experiences less stressed feeling more relaxed more calming thoughts control over your sensory filtering improved memory and executive function increased ability to concentrate increased emotional intelligence Thinking about relaxation, mindfulness and awareness during our recovery can’t be done without looking at some important evidence and thoughts about meditational practices: Mindfulness meditation programs improve anxiety, depression and pain over the course of 2–6 months. The effects are comparable with those you can expect after taking antidepressants for the same period of time, but without the associated toxicities.2 47 placebo-controlled trials all found small to moderate improvements in pain, anxiety and depression. What is really great about this review (Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being from 2013) is that it demonstrates that the meditation group attained better results compared to the control group undertaking an equally intense treatment regarding focus and time, such as lectures, talks and art therapy sessions. If we consider this evidence, then it seems a good reason to check out mindfulness for yourself and see if meditation could be something for you to try. A definition of mindfulness Mindfulness has been described as a “non-elaborative, non-judgmental awareness” of present moment experience.3 Maybe you have heard of Zen, it´s very closely related to the mindfulness approach. In general mindfulness techniques can be divided into two styles: focused attention "Focused attention is associated with maintaining focus on a specific object, often the changing sensation or flow of the breath or an external object. When attention drifts from the object of focus to a distracting sensory, cognitive or emotional event, the practitioner is taught to acknowledge the event and to disengage from it by gently returning the attention back to the object of meditation".3 open monitoring "By contrast, open monitoring is associated with a non-directed acknowledgement of any sensory, emotional or cognitive event that arises in the mind. Zen meditation is considered to be one form of open monitoring practice. While practicing open monitoring, the practitioner experiences the current sensory or cognitive ‘event’ without evaluation, interpretation, or preference".3 Many guided meditation programs consist of a mix of those two styles. Often changing from one to the other within a meditation session. I also think that it’s really important to know that clinical research into mindfulness has been going on since the early 1980s. For me this means that there is a good scientific evidence for using meditation techniques detached from religious beliefs or dogma for health purposes. How to start There is plenty of good content on the Internet available for free, simply search for mindful meditation. Check out some talks about meditation on TED.com and be inspired, or check out www.mindful.org Here are some great resources: Free guided meditations from UCLA: Each week has a different theme, and usually includes some introductory comments, a guided meditation, some silent practice time, and closing comments. Presented by the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=107 http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22 UCSD Center for Mindfulness: Guided audio files for practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/programs/mbsr/Pages/audio.aspx Basic meditation with Tara Brach Free meditations that you can stream or download. https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/ Contemplative Mind in Society Guided practices from Mirabai Bush, the center’s director, Diana Winston from UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, and Arthur Zajonc, president of the Mind & Life Institute. http://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/recordings Insight Meditation Society Selected talks, podcasts, and audio streams, including various lengths of guided meditation. http://www.dharma.org/resources/audio#guided John Kabat Zinn on youtube: Professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYLyuJZKno Literature: Morley S, Williams A. New Developments in the Psychological Management of Chronic Pain. CanJPsychiatry. 2015;6060(44):168-175. Goyal M, Singh S, Sibinga E, et al. Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being : a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(3):357-368. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018.Meditation. Zeidan F, Grant J., Brown CA, et al. Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: Evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain. Neurosci Lett. 2012;520(2):165-173. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.082.
Have you ever been curious about the concept of the guru? I explore my initial reservations about the concept and revise my definition. This episode also discusses the question of whether we need teachers, therapists, or gurus to transform. I share some of my personal experiences learning about and reflecting on Ram Dass’s guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Let’s consider how experiencing unconditional love can help to purify us from our egos to more fully embody the love that we are. Please consider learning more about Ram Dass and his teachings by checking out https://www.ramdass.org or this list of selected books by Ram Dass and collaborators: • Be Here Now or Remember, Be Here Now (1971) ISBN 0-517-54305-2 • The Only Dance There Is (1974) ISBN 0-385-08413-7 • Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook (1978) ISBN 0-553-28572-6 • Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba (1978) ISBN 0-525-47611-3 • How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service (with Paul Gorman) (1985) ISBN 0-394-72947-1 • Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service (with Mirabai Bush) (1991) ISBN 0-517-57635-X • Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying (2000) ISBN 1-57322-871-0 • Be Love Now (with Rameshwar Das) (2010) ISBN 1-84604-291-7 • Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (with Rameshwar Das) (2013) ISBN 1-60407-967-3 Take Action: Loving Awareness Meditation Here is a link to an article by Ram Dass about the meditation and to a YouTube video where he directs you through the process. Love is not something that you need to become. It is something that you already are. It’s not about thinking or even about doing, it is about being. This meditation practice can help you learn to be the loving awareness that you are.
Another episode that was recorded live from the "Open in Your Heart in Paradise" retreat in Maui with Ram Dass, Krishna Das, Jack Kornfield and more! Mirabai Bush has consistently one of my favorite teachers at these retreats was kind enough to sit down with me for an episode covering an exploration into the now famous "just like me" practice, mindfulness in the military, the need to dig deeper and uncover all sides of a situation and some of the early days of eastern exploration in the America. I just love being with Mirabai, hearing her talk and hanging out in her field. She's one of the great wisdom keepers on the path today. Follow her work if you're not already. INTRO RANT: social media vulnerability Mirabai Bush teaches contemplative practices and develops programs through the application of contemplative principles and values to organizational life. Her work with individuals and organizations includes entrepreneurial project management, compassionate staff-board relations, organizational leadership, public relations, communication, networking, and strategic relationship building all through the lens of contemplative practice in action. www.mirabaibush.com
How does spiritual practice work when we are out in the world and not around those who are committed to being loving all the time? Eventually, we discover that everything is love. Mirabai tells her story of life after the passing of Neem Karoli Baba in 1973. Leaving her community in India, Mirabai asked the question, “How can you be in a world you are not creating and still go where there is no love?” Finding direction in the wisdom of her guru, Mirabai set out on a journey that took her and her family across the world. In her journey, she experienced and learned to see love in everyone. Learning that there really is no them and us. Instead, it is all just us and everything is love. “Never go where there is no love” – Neem Karoli Baba.
On the fourth episode of Synchronicity Noah speaks with Mirabai Bush. Mirabai teaches contemplative practices to major tech companies, the military, gang leaders and lawyers. Mirabai also traveled to India in the seventies and met her eventual guru, Neem Karoli Baba. If you want to find out more about this episode well then you'll just have to listen won't you? REMINDER: Subscribe to Synchronicity HERE. "Love Everyone" by Parvati Markus.
In this episode Ram Dass' satsang family Mirabai Bush, Raghu Markus and Danny Goleman hang out and talk about Danny's new book with HH Dalai Lama- A Force For Good- which coincides with HH's birthday. Also remember the days they spent together in India with Neem Karoli Baba and what transmission they brought back to the West and how that has affected their individual offering in their work and lives.
Mirabai Bush is co-author, with Ram Dass, of Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service. She has new CD program Working with Mindfulness from www.morethansound.net. She offers exercises from the workplace which she has taught at Google and other companies. Mirabai Bush was a co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and Executive Director there until 2008. The Center developed programs integrating contemplative practice and perspective into their lives and work. Mirabai holds a unique background of organizational management, teaching, and spiritual practice. For Seva Foundation, she co-developed Sustaining Compassion, Sustaining the Earth, a series of retreats and events for grassroots environmental activists. .Mirabai has organized, facilitated, and taught workshops, and courses on spirit and action for more than 20 years at institutions including Omega Institute, Naropa Institute, and Findhorne
Mirabai Bush has been at the forefront of building a movement known today as American spirituality. She is one of the people responsible for infusing the social change movement with contemplative tools for more conscious activism. Join us as she recalls her journey and studies with legendary teachers like Neemkaroli Baba, Shri S.N. Goenka, Anagarika Munindra, and others. We also discuss her work with Ram Dass and the Seva Foundation, as well as the inspiration that led her to cofounding the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. You don't want to miss this lesson in American spirituality and activism!
Mirabai Bush is co-author, with Ram Dass, of Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service. She has new CD program Working with Mindfulness from www.morethansound.net. She offers exercises from the workplace which she has taught at Google and other companies. Mirabai Bush was a co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and Executive Director there until 2008. The Center developed programs integrating contemplative practice and perspective into their lives and work. Mirabai holds a unique background of organizational management, teaching, and spiritual practice. For Seva Foundation, she co-developed Sustaining Compassion, Sustaining the Earth, a series of retreats and events for grassroots environmental activists. .Mirabai has organized, facilitated, and taught workshops, and courses on spirit and action for more than 20 years at institutions including Omega Institute, Naropa Institute, and Findhorne
Mirabai Bush, who co-founded The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, has worked with everyone from Google to troubled youth to the army, teaching the practice of mindfulness. If anyone needs more mindfulness, it’s the two Mindrollers, whose aspirations far over-reach their achievements...