Mindrolling With Raghu Markus

Raghu’s longtime friend, Daniel Goleman, returns to Mindrolling to catch up on his book co-authored with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Why We Meditate.“There’s more than normal consciousness. There are other possibilities that have their own kind of richness. There are paths to those possibilities.” – Daniel GolemanIn this episode of Mindrolling, Raghu and Daniel chat about:Wild stories at Raghu’s family farm when they returned to the West  How Danny’s wife, Tara Bennet-Gorman’s book, Emotional Alchemy, along with traditional Tibetan practices served as Tsoknyi’s inspiration for addressing the things that get in the way of our lives, particularly as Westerners  Tsoknyi’s various methods for mindfulness: the handshake method, dropping practice, and more How Ram Dass came up with the term, “little shmoos” Cultivating a sense of “okayness” with things as they are The different types of love on the spectrum of “essence love”“These kinds of practices get integrated into your being. They're a resource for that i