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Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast

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. 242 - Authentic Presence with Children with Trudy Goodman

    Ep. 242 - Authentic Presence with Children with Trudy Goodman
    Feb 13 2026
    Trudy Goodman explains the healing power of mindfulness in helping adults be authentically present with children—fully entering their creative, playful world.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, Trudy Goodman talks about:Trudy’s own life as a mother and grandmother, witnessing many stages of growth from different perspectivesBecoming inspired by the playfulness, openness, and curiosity of childrenApproaching the world with beginners mind: approaching all experiences as if they are newA sonar for presence: how children can tell when we are present and when we are notHow the capacity to meet ourselves often goes back to the parent-child relationship Striving to be ‘good enough’ as a parent rather than perfectOrdinary devotion and maintaining a sense of routine care for our childrenLearning to be alone and getting acquainted with our inner lives Resting in presence and allowance rather than always trying to ‘fix’ our children or ‘correct’ their play and creativityTrusting the insubstantial nature of that which bothers us How our own expectations, concepts, and ideals, affect children for better and worseThis episode was originally published on DharmaseedAbout 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, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com "Our mindfulness practice really offers us a way to know deeply what's going on with children and this knowing often comes in nonverbal moments of just seeing, just realizing. It's such a powerful way of staying present with what's happening with all the strange and wonderful creatures that emerge both in ourselves and in our kids." –Trudy GoodmanMore Be Here Now Network Podcasts:Lama Rod Owens covers the dharma of freedom, loving ourselves, ancestral work, and the power of meditation: Dedication to LiberationJoAnna Hardy shares a guided meditation all around the first foundation of mindfulness – mindfulness of the body: First Foundation Guided MeditationThrough bearing witness, love & service, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee shares how we can collectively heal the crisis of disconnection & ecological devastation: Love & ServiceBuddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh explores how we can joyfully bring mindfulness into everyday activities like phone calls, driving, and walking: The Ojai Foundation Presents: Under the Teaching Tree with Thich Nhat HanhSee 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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    54 mins
  • Ep. 241 - Dependent Arising and Liberation with Gil Fronsdal

    Ep. 241 - Dependent Arising and Liberation with Gil Fronsdal
    Feb 5 2026

    Gil Fronsdal invites us to see Buddhism not as a doctrine but as a lived experience where insight, trust, and letting go give rise to genuine freedom.

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    This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal dives into:

    • How the twelve steps of dependent origination fit into the schema of Buddhist practice
    • The stark difference between an insight and a belief
    • Buddhism as a path to walk rather than a doctrine to believe in
    • Turning from suffering and clinging to peace
    • Finding out how Buddhism is meaningful to us individually
    • How we have all been liberated from something in our lives
    • Appreciating the relief and clarity that comes from letting go of clinging
    • The profound act of trust that it takes to be open and present
    • The door of the wishless, when the mind stops desiring
    • Looking at things exactly as they are rather than trying to conceptualize

    About Gil Fronsdal:

    Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council. In 2011 he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications. You may listen to Gil’s talks on Audio Dharma.

    This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

    "How deep and thorough can we let go? Can we liberate ourselves? The challenge that Buddhism offers us, more than a doctrine, it offers us a challenge that it is possible to get into the very deepest roots of the clinging in our hearts and uproot it, to become free from it." –Gil Fronsdal

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  • Ep. 240 - Uncovering Bliss with Dr. Robert Thurman

    Ep. 240 - Uncovering Bliss with Dr. Robert Thurman
    Jan 30 2026

    Guiding listeners into bliss, Dr. Robert Thurman explores how emptiness, renunciation, and compassion reinforce our oneness with all beings.

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    This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Dr. Thurman offers us:

    • A lovely translation of an 18th-century poem written by a Tibetan lama
    • Finding ‘mother emptiness’ and reinforcing our oneness with all beings
    • Lessons from the Buddha on emptiness and relativity
    • Understanding renunciation as self-compassion
    • Prioritizing the dharma rather than what society makes us feel we need to do
    • What happens to the mind and body as we begin to renunciate things
    • Differentiating sympathy, empathy, and true compassion
    • Realizing how precious we are as human beings
    • How compassion arises from our own inner bliss
    • Releasing our need to achieve and cultivating a tolerance for ambiguity
    • The synergy of all elements along The Eightfold Path

    This episode was recorded in 2020 during the Love Serve Remember Wise Hope Virtual Retreat: Day 2. Check out upcoming retreats HERE.

    About Dr. Robert Thurman:

    Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the Tibet House U.S., and is the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. His new book, Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life, is now available.

    "Renunciation is true self-indulgence. It's a real connoisseur’s thing to be detached, to have less baggage, less things." –Dr. Thurman

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    54 mins
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