Author and music executive Danny Goldberg joins Raghu to talk about tapping into the basic goodness inside us all.

This week on Mindrolling, Danny and Raghu discuss:

• Our basic goodness as human beings
• The deep spiritual experiences that can happen outside of organized religion
• Breathing contemporary life into ancient spirituality
• Govinda, a famous devotional track produced by George Harrison
• Universalism and taking different paths to the same place
• Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and nonviolent resistance
• Seeing everyone as the Buddha, as ‘God in drag’
• Wise Compassion: Using your brain and your heart

About Danny Goldberg:

Danny Goldberg is an author and music executive who has spent decades in the business. As a manager, Danny represented Bonnie Raitt, Nirvana, The Allman Brothers Band, and Sonic Youth. As a label executive, he was President of Atlantic Records, and Chairman of Warner Bros. Records and the Mercury Records Group – among others. Danny Goldberg’s previous books include Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment and Resistance to Trump, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, How The Left Lost Teen Spirit, Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside The Rock and Roll Business and In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. Learn more about Danny and his work HERE.

“You need to go to the mountaintop for the inspiration but then to be the kind of person Dr. King wanted us to be, you gotta minister to the valley. We need both.” —Danny Goldberg

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Outlining our inevitable oneness with the world, Buddhist scholar Jack Petranker joins Raghu to explore letting go of habitual stories and fully inhabiting each moment.

Check out Jack’s recently released book, One with the World: A Path to Living with Presence and Appreciation

This week on Mindrolling, Jack and Raghu discuss:

• Jack’s teacher, Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku
• How we often take our experiences too seriously
• Krishna Das’s perspective on the stories we tell ourselves
• Treating each moment as an ongoing adventure
• The logic of experience and our inevitable oneness with the world
• The habitual beliefs that get us into trouble
• Ways in which the self makes us small
• Causality vs. the truth of the way things are
• The quiet courage to accept whatever arises

“If we learn to inhabit our experience fully, then, every moment becomes a kind of ongoing adventure and opportunity to open out into our experience in new ways. That’s really what I mean when I talk about being one with the world. In the logic of experience, we are inevitably one with the world—there’s no choice in the matter.” –Jack Petranker

About Jack Petranker:

Jack Petranker holds a law degree from Yale and an M.A. in political theory from the University of California, Berkeley. A former Dean of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, he has also served as North American Vice President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (1988-92). He is the founder of the Center for Creative Inquiry and serves as its senior teacher and regularly teaches and lectures in the United States and Europe. He has been a close student of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku for more than 40 years. Jack lives in Berkeley, California. Learn more about Jack on his website.

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From Bob Marley to Chogyam Trungpa and Ram Dass, David and Raghu explore the many paths that lead us back to one love.

This time on Mindrolling, David and Raghu discuss:

• David’s work filming Bob Marley
• The attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica, 1976
• David’s encounter with Bob after his cancer diagnosis
• The profound impact of Bob Marley on David Silver’s life
• The many forms that transformation comes in
• An explanation of Mahayana Buddhism
• How Chogyam Trungpa made complicated concepts more practical
• Trungpa’s teachings in Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness
• Ram Dass’s book There is No Other

Check out the book recommended by David in this episode: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

“Bob’s friendship had metamorphosed my whole life. His magnitude as a divine messenger was enough to change me. That coupled with the most potent music I’d ever heard was enough to seep Bob’s special essence into my own heart and recover me so often from despair, doubt, or depression.” –David Silver

About David Silver:

David Silver is the former co-host of the Mindrolling podcast. He is a filmmaker and director, most recently coming out with Brilliant Disguise. Brilliant Disguise tells the unique story of a group of inspired Western spiritual seekers from the 60s, who in meeting the great American teacher, Ram Dass, followed him to India to meet his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, familiarly known as Maharaj-ji. Two days before he left his body, Maharaj-ji instructed K.C. Tewari to take care of the Westerners, which he did resolutely until the day he died in 1997. Silver’s #1 charting MGM/UA/Warners film, “The Compleat Beatles” is the critically acclaimed biopic movie about history’s most famous band. The term ‘rockumentary’ was first applied to this two-hour movie. Rolling Stone recently described the film as a “masterwork.” Silver’s Warner Brothers’ feature film, “No Nukes” also started the whole trend of music/activism feature documentaries. Be on the lookout for David’s upcoming book!

“The idea that we are alone and striving alone is corrosive. As soon as we can overcome that, we find an even deeper pleasure but it has nothing to do with acquisition, competition, and matters of repeated forms of hatred and animosity.” –David Silver

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