Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
560 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsEscapades in Mind-Expansion and Cultural Misadventures. Mindrolling Podcast is about coming unstuck and the recent history of awoken awareness. It’s about the intersection of culture, consciousness and realization with Raghu Markus.
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Ep. 10 - Shyamdas
January 22, 2013 21:38 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThis podcast with our dear friend Shyam Das which was scheduled for broadcast today January 22, 2013 tragically coincided with his passing in a motorcycle accident in India three days ago. There are simply no adequate words to describe this loss to all of us. Master chanter, brilliant Krishna scholar, Shyamdas was globally revered, but much more importantly, he was loved for his delightful and friendly ways, his sparkling humorand his seamless, astonishing devotion to the ancient tra...
Ep. 09 - Close Encounters: From Zappa to Muktananda
January 17, 2013 16:32 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBDavid and Raghu talk about David's interview with Frank Zappa, and 60’s music from Detroit soul to California drug music. Raghu has an embarrassing Led Zeppelin experience. R & D discuss high beings coming into their lives...India...“dolphins in the Ganges”...Raghu’s father’s transformation...meeting Muktananda...Burmese Insight Meditation practice – Goldstein, Salzberg, Kornfield...Buddhism and Bhakti in the West...Ram Dass and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. See Privacy Policy at https...
Ep. 08 - A Chat with Lama Surya Das
January 08, 2013 20:05 - 48 minutes - 44 MBAmerican Lama Surya Das talks with us about his sixties influences such as folk music, John Lennon, and his early questioning of the meaning of life. He carefully compares these times for the current youth generation to our own, where crises often happen along with optimistic youth outreach. He tells us more about the Dzogchen Buddhist Mindrolling tradition. He remembers being with Neem Karoli Baba and how he absorbed the Buddhist wisdom. Surya Das gets into the path to authentic l...
Ep. 07 - Digital Dilemma
January 02, 2013 19:25 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThis podcast explores the positive and negative aspects of media, including social media. Raghu recalls playing Ram Dass tapes on the radio back in the day and meeting Maharaji. David compares 1960’s media to 1980’s cable explosion to the 2012 vastly expanded current global Internet. The potential abuse of social media is weighed along with its progressive and humanitarian communication quantum leaps. Spirituality via media is analyzed. Does instant information actually make us happi...
Ep. 06 - A Chat with Danny Goldberg
December 18, 2012 18:05 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBOur friend Danny Goldberg is a music industry legend, former Chairman of Warner Brothers Records and President of Atlantic Records, Danny discovered and managed Kurt Cobain and Nirvana and was the head of Led Zeppelin’s record company, "Swansong" amongst other things. The conversation revolves around Danny’s experience in combining great worldly success and a spiritual path. We get into the sixties and the origins of expanded consciousness via Ram Dass and the teacher Hilda Charlton....
Ep. 05 - Matters of Practicality
December 12, 2012 23:42 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBHow do we achieve balance in our life in a practical way? Dave and Raghu talk about the Tibetan leader of the Mindrolling lineage, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and her wise words...loving the present...combatting stressors...talking about everyone wanting happiness...practicality and practice...transcending the “monkey mind”...adventures with Chogyam Trungpa. And “how to be in this world?” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/...
Ep. 04 - A Chat with Duncan Trussell
November 27, 2012 20:57 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBRaghu and David chat with Duncan Trussell, Los Angeles based conscious stand up comedian and podcaster about humor, awareness and the parallels between the late sixties and the Millennial generation, comparing boomer and echo-boomer predicaments and solutions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep. 03 - Music as Ally
November 20, 2012 17:27 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBMusic can actually transform our consciousness, thereby changing our life, song by song, chant by chant. We discuss the sixties and the momentum created during that time. David tells us about his extensive work with Bob Marley. We hear a couple of tracks from the unique Triloka world music label and examine trance as experienced through being open to and listening to music of all kinds from John Coltrane to Ali Akbar Khan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...
Ep. 02 - Larger than Life Experiences
November 14, 2012 17:45 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBA dual biographical podcast. “From our past and your future,” David’s many experiences with Timothy Leary...his film biopic with Tim and his feelings about death and dying. Ram Dass and Leary. David’s amazing altered consciousness experience in Tim’s house, a few weeks after Tim died. Raghu’s magnetization to Ram Dass while a FM program director in Montreal and his progression to India and the guru. David in Morocco with the Jajouka Master Musicians. The experiencing of Neem Ka...
Ep. 01 - Early Days
October 23, 2012 20:48 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThe first podcast traces the history of the awakening process for the two hosts via culture and intensified awareness - the sixties were the engine of the movement towards consciousness, via the Vietnam War, psychedelics, music, and community. David and Raghu look back on “going through the changes” and emerging from the repressive atmosphere of the early sixties into the radical, healing effects of the Beat Generation, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Early inner and outer encounters wi...