Returning to the refuge of breath that is present from birth to death, JoAnna Hardy guides listeners through a grounding and connective breath-based practice.

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In this practice-infused episode, JoAnna guides listeners through:

• The first foundation of mindfulness, according to the Buddha
• Whole-body awareness and inviting our body fully into the practice
• The individuality of each breath and becoming familiar with our breath
• Remembering that the breath is always with us, from birth to death
• Finding calm, peace, energy, rapture, and joy within the breath
• Becoming completely interested in each one of our inhales and exhales
• Our exhale as the connection between us and nature, us and all beings
• Landing in the rhythm of the breath and allowing it to rock you
• Letting the breath be our home base and refuge when our mind wanders during practice
• Becoming aware of sensations on and in our body via the throughline of the breath
• Feeling the body rather than thinking about your body
• Exploring practice one breath at a time, one bodily sensation at a time, with curiosity

This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.org

About JoAnna Hardy:

JoAnna Hardy is an insight meditation (Vipassanā) practitioner and teacher; she is on faculty at the University of Southern California, a meditation trainer at Apple Fitness+, a founding member of the Meditation Coalition, a teacher’s council member at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, a visiting retreat teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a collaborator on many online meditation Apps and programs. Her greatest passion is to teach meditation in communities that are dedicated to seeing the truth of how racism, gender inequality and oppression go hand in hand with the compassionate action teachings in Buddhism and related perspectives to social and racial justice.

“That exhale is going far beyond this body. It's what connects us to this earth, to nature, to all beings.” – JoAnna Hardy

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Psychedelic expert, Dr. Raymond Turpin, discusses how psychedelics shut down our ‘default-mode’ and expand our creativity in music, art, and more.

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In this episode, Raymond and Jackie discuss:

• LSD and how it effects the creative process
• The history of LSD, bicycle day, and more
• Painting under the influence of LSD for greater imagination
• Using LSD to tackle professional problems and crack emotional blocks
• LSD and increased concentration/focus for accelerated solutions
• How Psychedelics shut down our default-mode network of the brain
• Seeing wider possibilities for creativity for the use of psychedelics
• The Grateful Dead, musical telepathy, and their role in the culture of LSD
• Synergy of music, musician, and audience via flow states and psychedelics
• The power of psychedelic co-creation
• The therapeutic potential of LSD for the treatment of anxiety, depression, and more

This conversation was recorded as part of the Ram Dass Fellowship’s regular online gatherings. To learn more about the Ram Dass Fellowship and sign up to join a fellowship gathering near you, visit RamDass.org/Fellowship.

About Raymond Turpin:

Dr. Raymond Turpin is the Clinical Director for The Pearl Psychedelic Institute and President of the Board of Directors. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of The Pearl MDMA Project. Dr. Turpin has been studying the therapeutic uses of psychedelics and the relevant literature since the mid-1980s hoping to eventually legally use these medicines in his psychology practice. Specializing in the treatment of trauma, Dr. Turpin has extensive experience with children, adolescents, and families in a multitude of settings but has focused his practice on older adolescents and adults in recent years.

“What they found with the LSD art, some of the precise craftsmanship that these artists normally had suffered a bit, but it had greater aesthetic value, greater imagination, more evidence of abstract perceptions.” – Raymond Turpin

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Outlining the four resolves of wisdom, truth, relinquishment, and peace, Gil Fronsdal takes us down the path of freedom.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explores:

• The four resolves of wisdom, truth, relinquishment, and peace
• How many people’s lives are founded on their attachments
• Finding the dharma path in our lives
• Arriving where we are rather than being in the future or past
• The many beautiful meanings of being committed to truth
• Connecting to our lived experience and finding truth in the present moment
• Adorning the mind through practicing generosity
• Relinquishment as a means to enhance ourselves and to let go
• Gaining more from release than we do from holding
• Using daily meditation to slowly become more peaceful

This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.

“When you’re engaged in a path of freedom, of mindfulness, of showing up, it’s partly a journey from living a life that has stress and suffering in it, to a life that doesn’t.” – Gil Fronsdal

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