Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

Raghu Markus – Mindrolling Podcast

Raghu Markus spent 18 months in India with Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. He has been involved in music and transformational media since the early 1970s, when he was program director of CKGM-FM in Montreal.

In 1974, he collaborated with Ram Dass on the box set Love Serve Remember. In 1990, he launched Triloka Records, which established itself as a critical leader in the development of world music. For 17 years, Triloka was home to such artists as Krishna Das, Hugh Masekela, Walela, Jai Uttal and transformational media projects that featured Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, and Les Nubians.

Raghu lives in Ojai, California, and is the Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. In 2016, he co-founded the Be Here Now Network, where he hosts the Ram Dass Here & Now podcast, as well as his own Mindrolling podcast. He is the producer of Becoming Nobody, a Ram Dass documentary feature film that was released in 2019.

Mindrolling Podcast is about coming unstuck and the recent history of awoken awareness. It’s about the intersection of culture, consciousness and realization.

Mindrolling the Word happens to be a Tibetan monastery tradition, the home of “the garden of ripening and liberation.” For Raghu Markus, it is a rock and rolling conversation remembering the sixties, digesting the seventies, paralleling then and now, right now, as we find our way in the 21st century.

This podcast “rolls” the frantic monkey mind, mugs the complacent mental head. The moving power of music is one of the main tools of the show, transformation is the common denominator. Actual direct experiences is the core of the Mindrollers, some of which are enlightening, some of which were intensely frightening – what turns up here is a Mindroll of the karmic and cosmic dice, but we dare to promise honesty and guarantee high comedy along with the more high falutin’ content…

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 143 – Time to Stand Up

Raghu and Thanissara explore her amazing book Time To Stand Up: The Buddha’s Life and Message Through Feminine Eyes – it serves as a call…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 142 – Does it Help to Worry?

Worry?! Is it of any use? Raghu and George “Balaram” Pitagorsky discuss his recent blog on Shedding Light to Combat ignorance: confrontation is necessary…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 141 – Kiley Jon Clark’s Street Dharma

Kiley Jon Clark joins Mindrolling and introduces us to his amazing work with the homeless – not only offering them food and love but…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 140 – Going Deep with Reggie Ray

Raghu has a deep chat with Reggie Ray, one of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s first American students. Reggie shares some very personal moments with Trungpa…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 139 – Skepticism, Love and Courage

Raghu is joined by Pete Holmes, Duncan Trussell and Sharon Salzberg in Maui for a  wonderfully entertaining podcast on skepticism, love, and courage. Show…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 138 – Animal Wisdom with Dr. Linda Bender

David chats with Dr. Linda Bender, an advocate, author and educator in the sacred connection shared by humans, animals and nature. Dr. Linda talks…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 137 – Roadside Assistance with Rabbi Rami

Rabbi Rami Shapiro joins Raghu and David and gives us a little roadside assistance for our spiritual journey. Rabbi Rami certainly reflects the Mindroller’s…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 136 – The Cool Breeze of Compassion

Lama Tsultrim Allione joins the Mindrollers for a deep chat about our current disturbing world events – how do we as world citizens see…

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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus – Ep. 135 – Roshi Joan Halifax & “Negative Capability”

Roshi Joan Halifax expounds on the transformation of doubt, rootlessness, suffering and meaninglessness into a true “refuge of truth.” At this time of the…

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