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   Number 1: Ram Dass: Touching the Sun, Neem Karoli Baba and India Stories | Here & Now Podcast Ep. 313

   Gather around for some storytime with Ram Dass as he recounts his first journey to India, the long road that led to finding his guru, and how touching his guru’s feet was almost like touching the sun. Part of this episode is featured in Love Serve Remember’s free fall immersion, Gather Around the Fire: Stories of Ram Dass, Maharaj-ji, and a Legacy of Love. Please join us beginning Monday, September 28, for four weeks of storytelling, gathering in community, and basking in the spirit of loving awareness. Link in comments! This episode of Here and Now is from a talk Ram Dass gave at the Esalen Institute on June 12, 1969. We pick up Ram Dass’s story in 1967, just as he’s realizing that the method of psychedelics will only take him so far on his journey. What does one do at that point? Well, one heads to the East. Ram Dass shares tales of his first trip around India, including a visit to a sacred cave and meeting as many “holy men” as possible. But he didn’t find anyone who “really knew” what was going on. Just as a sense of despair truly began to kick in, Ram Dass meets a young Westerner at a restaurant who might have a clue to the way forward. Tempting fate, Ram Dass decides to go on a pilgrimage with his new friend. This path leads to him meeting Neem Karoli Baba, a great Indian saint who blows away Ram Dass’s rational mind. With that, Ram Dass had found his guru, a being so full of love that touching his feet was just like touching the sun. “So we get into the Land Rover and we go to see Maharajji. And I’m just approaching him, I’m about five yards away. And he yells at me, ‘Got a question?’ Well, I take one look at him, and I don’t have any questions. I just wanna fall out and touch his feet. You dig that? I mean, the thought of touching his feet is too much. It’s like touching the sun. And I just feel all warm and loving. And who has questions? I mean, what a drag to have questions.” – Ram Dass

   September 21, 2026·47min
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   Number 2: Cynicism, Bewilderment and Spiritual Materialism with Duncan Trussell & Raghu Markus | Mindrolling Podcast Ep. 664

   Duncan Trussell and Raghu Markus examine cynicism, bewilderment, and spiritual materialism, considering what can happen if we drop our defenses and experience the present moment fully. Check out Duncan Trussell and Kurt Metzger’s new podcast, The Mystery Boys, where ancient mysteries, modern misinformation, and aggressively positive curiosity collide: https://ymhstudios.com/mystery-boys-podcast/ In this episode, Duncan and Raghu chat about: - Being cynical versus being rational - Chogyum Trungpa Rinpoche’s perspective on spiritual materialism - Letting go and swimming through the moment - Meditation as the remedy for bewilderment - Larry David, Ram Dass, and working with cynicism - Navigating fear, anxiety, and troublesome global news - How religious fundamentalism steers people away from practice About Duncan Trussell: Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and actor. His popular podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, has been downloaded over 25 million times and is known for its blend of humor, fringe ideas, eclectic guests, and great interviews. The DTFH is the foundation for Duncan’s Netflix animated series, The Midnight Gospel, which he co-created with Pendleton Ward in 2020. To learn more about Duncan’s work, visit his website at duncantrussell.com. “Just like with Buddhism or any of these things, you can’t just eat the pie plate and expect to feel like you ate pie. You can’t just read the books and not do the practice—you have to go deeper at some point.” –Duncan Trussell

   September 18, 2026·1h 19min
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   Number 3: Sufficiency: There is Enough Time, Love, Money, Everything | RamDev Dale Borglum Healing At The Edge Ep. 140

   Acknowledging our oneness with the divine and the abundance of the present moment, Ramdev offers a reflection on transforming scarcity and fear into gratitude and love. This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses: - Working through our sense of scarcity - The illusion of separateness - Trusting that love is enough in an age of fear - Handing our fear to the divine mother, to God, to Christ - Transforming inadequacy and resting in abundance - Trusting in the source and realising we are one - Keeping an open heart during turbulent times - Seeing all things as a necessary part of the divine play “Each moment becomes an opportunity for feeling gratitude, not because of how much you have or what you want, but just for the moment itself. What you are longing for is not something in the future; it’s fullness in this moment.” –RamDev About RamDev Dale Borglum: RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and, since 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books, and has taught meditation since 1974. RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctoral degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free. Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

   September 17, 2026·46min
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   Number 4: Neem Karoli Baba Stories with Anasuya Weil & Parvati Markus | Be There Now Podcast Ep. 1

   Welcome to Be There Now, a new podcast series sharing first-hand encounters with Maharaj-ji. Listen as your future host, Anasuya Weil, shares the special story of her own darshan. In this inaugural episode of Be There Now, Anasuya is interviewed by Parvati on: - How Anasuya met her guru, Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji) - Ram Dass, Anasuya, and the blanket story - How Maharaj-ji truly embodied service and the spirit of Hanuman - Darshan from Maharaj-ji during Anasuya’s pregnancy - Attachment: Becoming ‘like a lotus above the water’ - Communing with Maharaj-ji in the dreamspace “The little things about people’s daily lives seemed as important to him as anything else. He really wanted to make sure everyone was taken care of. He was really the embodiment of being of service, of Hanuman.” –Anasuya Weil on Maharaj-ji About Parvati Markus: Parvati Markus is an author and developmental editor who has been midwifing non-fiction books and memoirs since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Love Serve Remember Foundation and has helped with many other spiritual organizations and events. Parvati is also the author of numerous books, including Whisper in the Heart and Love Everyone. About Anasuya Weil: Anasuya Weil travelled overland solo at the age of 19 and was with Maharaji for 9 months in 1971, whom she met just after her first Buddhist meditation retreat. Since then, she has returned to India and Nepal several times continuing her Buddhist practice with Maharaji’s blessing. She has studied with many wonderful teachers, but considers Neem Karoli Baba her Root Guru. Anasuya spent the last half century raising her children, both biological and chosen, as well as her numerous grandchildren. After starting and running the Tibetan Resettlement Project in New Mexico for 3 years, she returned to the East Coast where she finished her graduate degree and later went on to become Menpa (Doctor of Tibetan Medicine). As there is renewed interest in who Maharaji was and what he said, this podcast can serve as a place for people to access as many direct accounts as possible. Many of Maharaji’s original Western devotees are getting old and dying. Anasuya is just one of many Maharaji’s devotees and hopes this podcast will collect, document, and make available these precious stories in order to share Maharaji’s blessings. “I can count on one hand the number of dreams I have had of Maharaj-ji, but this was a big dream. It went on all night. He was holding my hand, it was very much like the last time I saw him. He kept putting the blanket over his head and hiding. I asked him, ‘Maharaj-ji why are you spending so much time with me?’ He said, ‘to give you peace of heart’.” –Anasuya Weil

   September 14, 2026·45min
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   Number 5: Faith, Diversity, and Community with Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin & Vincent Moore | BHNN Guest Podcast Ep. 270

   Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin of the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order, explores how she has cultivated community and diversity through interfaith dialogue, spiritual practice, and a commitment to making Buddhist teachings accessible while honoring tradition. This conversation was originally recorded on the Paths of Practice Podcast. Listen to more episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PathsofPractice This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin and Vincent chat about: - Being grateful for the good in our lives - Finding support in spiritual community - The emotional process of shaving one’s head for the priesthood - Being a female in a male-dominated spiritual world - Creating community and diversity in Houston, Texas - Working to make Buddhist teachings accessible while preserving the - integrity of traditions - Addressing trauma in the prison system and learning how to support each other - Hope for the future and finding common ground in the intersection of faith traditions - The great change that naturally arises from a dedication to practice - Lessons from the Lotus Sutra on respect - Finding the purpose and benefit in all that happens to us About Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin: Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, stands as a beacon of pioneering spirit, being the first American woman and the first of African Japanese descent to attain full ordination as a Nichiren priest. She holds the esteemed position of bishop for the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order of North America, the first woman and Westerner to do so. Her guidance emanates from Houston, where she leads as the principal teacher of Myoken-ji Temple. She is among the few westerners, specifically one of three, to undertake and complete the rigorous Aragyo [ascetic practice] at Saijo Inari in Okayama, Japan. Passionate about bringing Buddhism beyond temple walls, Myokei Shonin actively supports three prison sanghas within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system. Her interfaith endeavors have seen her as a Fellow with Interfaith America, championing dialogue between Buddhists and Muslims in incarceration. Her roles extend to being a board member of Lion’s Roar Magazine and Dharma Relief 2: Healing Racial Trauma. She's actively engaged in programs such as Healing Warrior Hearts, Texas for Heroes, The Gathering, and the International Western Dharma Teachers Gathering. Beyond these, her contributions span across various socio-religious platforms, underlining her commitment to spreading compassionate teachings. As a writer, her voice echoes through publications in Lion’s Roar and Tricycle magazines, and she has made notable contributions to The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women. “Everything about us is perfect, whole, and complete for the path that we’re walking. It may be horrible, some of the things that have happened to us, but they’re a preparation for us to walk the path in the way we need to walk it. We have to be able to look at everything that happens to us as a benefit. There is a purpose to this happening to us. We can be a gateway for others to walk a better path for themselves. We are perfectly gifted by the experiences we have had.” –Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin About Vincent Moore: Vincent Moore is a creative and creative consultant living in San Francisco, California, with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry and holds a graduate degree in Buddhist Studies.

   September 04, 2026·1h 9min
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