Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

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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Drawing on mythology and ancient storytelling, author Michael Meade shares how we can renew the earth through personal and cultural transformation.
You can now pre-order Michael’s book, The Heart of Transformation!
In this thought-provoking episode, Michael and Raghu discuss:
Bringing mythology into the modern world
Creation and recreation: how the end times lead to the next times
Our responsibility to aid in the healing of the world
Returning to the etymology of apocalypse: collapse and renewal
Transformation on a cultural and collective level
Michael’s life-changing experience of solitary confinement in military prison
How unity is revealed through unique expressions of the deep self
The imagination that exists in the void
Recognizing our own genius qualities
The relationship between fate and karma
About Michael Meade:
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller and author who combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths. He has a unique ability to tap ancestral sources of wisdom and connect them in illuminating and healing ways to the dilemmas we face and the stories we are living today.
Michael is the creator of the Living Myth Podcast, a highly regarded weekly podcast that goes out to a diverse and growing audience spanning over 150 countries. He is the author of a number of timeless and timely books including: Awakening the Soul, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny and Why the World Doesn't End. Michael is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose projects bring the medicine of myth and story to the issues that trouble both culture and nature in ways that inspire creative imagination and genuine hope. Keep up with Michael on Substack, or check out his website for events and more.
“In the old imagining of myth, creation is recurring all the time. We are in the end times, but the end times lead to the next times. The word ‘end’ itself actually means loose end or remnant. From the remnants of the previous world, the next world is rewoven.” –Michael Meade
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Duncan Trussell and Raghu Markus examine cynicism, bewilderment, and spiritual materialism, considering what can happen if we drop our defenses and experience the present moment fully.
Check out Duncan Trussell and Kurt Metzger’s new podcast, The Mystery Boys, where ancient mysteries, modern misinformation, and aggressively positive curiosity collide.
In this episode, Duncan and Raghu chat about:
Being cynical versus being rational
Chogyum Trungpa Rinpoche’s perspective on spiritual materialism
Letting go and swimming through the moment
Meditation as the remedy for bewilderment
Larry David, Ram Dass, and working with cynicism
Navigating fear, anxiety, and troublesome global news
How religious fundamentalism steers people away from practice
Check out Chögyum Trungpa’s books Cynicism and Magic and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
About Duncan Trussell:
Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and actor. His popular podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, has been downloaded over 25 million times and is known for its blend of humor, fringe ideas, eclectic guests, and great interviews. The DTFH is the foundation for Duncan’s Netflix animated series, The Midnight Gospel, which he co-created with Pendleton Ward in 2020. To learn more about Duncan’s work, visit his website at duncantrussell.com.
“Just like with Buddhism or any of these things, you can’t just eat the pie plate and expect to feel like you ate pie. You can’t just read the books and not do the practice—you have to go deeper at some point.” –Duncan Trussell
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