Call and Response Podcast

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 67 | Siddhi Ma, George W. Bush and Learning to Trust Yourself [Photo: Josefine Barrett] Q: I had an experience in India with Siddhi Ma. I…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 66 |Find Out Who You Are Q: I started thinking, I don’t have a Guru in form, maybe I’m not doing something right. What if the…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 65 | The Repetition of the Divine Names “Thoughts are going to come because thoughts come. That’s what they do. What we have to do is…

Call and Response Ep. 64 Consciousness, Spiritual Names, Vipasana Q: When you sing other lineages’ Names like “Tara” or “Jesus on the Mainline” like how do you integrate that with…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 63 Hanuman, How Chanting Heals Q: Can you tell us a story about Hanuman? Any story. “There are certain things that we need that, that Being…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 62 The Spiritual Heart, Addiction, Longing Q: I was curious to hear about your experience with your sobriety… “If I had to fight with my desire…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 61 Do What You Like, Taking It Personally, As Time Goes By Q:  I go to kirtans. I put in music in my car and I…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 60 Gurus, Programs and Practice “We’re training ourselves to release whatever it is that is pushing us around. It’s not easy to see what it is…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 59 Real Love Q: I just wanted to ask you if you believe in true love and whether you find or think that personally you have…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 58 Life On The Road, Everyone is Your Teacher Q: Do you use people, just in general that come up in your life, as your teacher?…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 57 Where Do Thoughts Come From, Suffering, Favorite Chants Q: I’ve been coming to see you for many years and the last time I came after…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 56 Hearing the Name, Chanting the Name, and A Talk About Gurus Q: Thank you for being here. I want to know about your Guru. “That…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 55 The Practice of Chanting “As much as we like to think that we’re running the show, it’s always those little epiphanies, those things that (we)…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 54 Guru Puja Meditation “Every inhalation you’re drawing away the pain and suffering of all the Beings around you, all over the universe, actually, because you…

Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of…

Call and Response Ep. 53 Devotional Poetry of Shabkar and Remembering Geshe Wangyal “Don’t be sad. Look at the mind that feels sadness. The guru is not other than the…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD May 21, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 52 Reincarnation, Sci-Fi Buddhism and Devotion   “He encouraged us to love everyone, serve everyone and remember God, which is to repeat the Names of God….

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD May 16, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 51 Guru “Any yogi or yogini who develops ability to concentrate and become mindful, pushing that mindfulness to deeper and deeper levels, discovers the Realm of…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD May 14, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 50 Sadhus, and Nirvana in Samsara “For Maharajji, everybody was His near and His dear. Everyone. And in order to stay in that space, you couldn’t…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD May 9, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 49 | How KD Met Robert Thurman “It was a wild time. There were a lot of… the Westerners in India, everybody would go to see…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD May 7, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 48 | Hanuman, Mrs. Hanuman, and Time Machines  “When you attain that oneness, you’re also one with all Beings in all moments of time, past, present…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 30, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 47 | Hindu-Buddhist Connections and A Short Discussion of Hatred “Once it reaches India, the vajra idea, that’s when it’s coming from, central asia, chariot warriors…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 25, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 46 | The Meaning of Ram “When you shape divinity, your notion of the Divinity, by saying ‘Ram Ram Ram’ and use the Name for ‘joy’…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 23, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 45 | A Meditation With Bob “Why do we want Ram, the Divine Rama, and utter the name, Rama, which comes from a verb that means…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 16, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 44 | Share Your Story Q: Could (you) share some of your story about what was going on before you decided to go to India “Everyone…

Call and Response Ep. 43 | Practice Arising By Itself, Dharmageddon and Does the Curriculum Change With Age Question: I’m just finding it to be that I don’t have to…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 11, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 09, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations With KD April 02, 2020 Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of…

Call and Response Ep. 42 Only Jesus Died the Real Death Question: He, so the thing that kind of like I had an epiphany about was He never died, the…

Call and Response Ep. 41 Karma and Consciousness, Dealing With Negativity Q: I’ve been putting a lot of emphasis on my mind a lot of my life and to turn…

Call and Response Ep. 40 Dark Night of the Soul, Gratitude and the Renaissance of Psychedelics Q: So Ram Das talks a lot about how, as you awaken or you…

Call and Response Ep. 39 Bad Aim and the Importance of Spiritual Practice “The key to doing a spiritual practice is actually doing it. Every day whether you feel like…

Call and Response Ep. 37 Maharajji’s Language, Why Is Chanting Important? Why is chanting transformative? Why is the chanting of names transformative? Does it require an understanding of what those…

Call and Response Ep. 36 There’s No Maharajji Outside of You, Committing To A Practice So, when I try to tap into the energy or the meaning of Neem Karoli…

Call and Response Ep. 35 Too Little Too Much, Violence and Compassion I’m searching for understanding of how someone can be on this earth and literally be so unloved that…

Call and Response Ep. 34 Trust In Your Self. Maharajji and Buddhism  When you talk about this incredible love, is it just the simple presence of consciousness that you can…

Call and Response Ep. 33 | The Real Guru Is Within, This Happened Because It Had To  “There’s no Guru outside of yourself. Guru is not that body. Guru might…

Call and Response Ep. 32 Keep Coming Back and Cleaning Out The Dark Corners “You don’t have to know anything. All you have to do is be happy. And think…

Call and Response Ep. 31  Find Out Who You Are, Maharajji and Buddha, Starting on the Path Do you have any advice for… I guess for someone who’s starting off…

Call and Response Ep. 30 Family Karma, KD’s Mom I feel that my dharma is taking me into different direction, that family karma. Karma related to a lot of suffering,…

Call and Response Ep. 29 The Evaluative Mind, Grace, Dada Mukerjee “I said to Siddhi Ma, I said, ‘Ma, Maharajji said He has the keys to the mind, so to…

Call and Response Ep. 28  Suffering, Gratitude and Burning Out So, I can feel this softening thing happening in my personal relationships and my everyday life. I’m having a really…

Call and Response Ep. 27 Spiritual Experiences, Auschwitz and Bernie Glassman Recently I’ve been having a draw to learn or feel more of my tradition and the ancestors and who’s…

For my own karma, I would like to resolve those things that I’ve felt that I could have done better. Situations I could have handled better and I just wondered…

KD discusses the importance of practice, particularly the practices of Mantra repetition and the Hanuman Chalisa, and recalls how Maharajji’s Western devotees initially began chanting the Chalisa. “So, Maharajji said…

“We don’t know who we are. We don’t know what we really are. We don’t know what’s looking out of our eyes. We don’t know what’s experiencing the things we…

Given that we often refer to our minds as a wild monkey, that thoughts come up that we have no control over, it seems that, to be held responsible for…

Call and Response Ep. 22 Meditation and Moping I don’t like the outside silence leading me to the stuff in my head. But when I feel it with the chanting,…

SPECIAL EDITION – Call and Response Podcast – Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck David Nichtern is a senior teacher in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This tradition combines…

{Photo by Krishna Das, Auckland Harbor July 2018} Ep. 21 Longing, Ripening and Dada Vaswani The other people who met Maharajji talk about is the experience of His unconditional love,…

SPECIAL EDITION – Call and Response Podcast – Graveyard Talks With Sacinandana Swami Sacinandana Swami was born in Germany to an affluent family and, for 42 years, has been a…

Ep. 20 ~ Compassion for Abusers I know the basis of all this is we’re One, we’re Love, we’re Compassion, we enfold. And then I go home and I’m on…

Ep. 19 ~ Spiritual Love and Worldly Love I wanted to ask if you could talk a bit about your relationship with Maharajji and maybe the difference between love as…

Ep. 18 ~ How To Develop Faith Tell me a little bit about how your faith… and trust in the universe that happened over time… how did it develop for…

Ep. 17 ~ Grace in The West How do we, in the West live the way you speak of? The way we all want to in our hearts? We need…

Ep. 16 Spiritual Practice and the State of the World How do we live a spiritual life in today’s political climate? “When Maharajji was around physically…  something was going on,…

Ep. 15 ~ Our State of Mind Is Everything How does one’s state of mind color one’s world view? “I remember the first rainy season. Oh, everything was wet. The…

Ep. 14 ~ KD Chats with Bob Thurman Robert A.F. Thurman recently retired as Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in theDepartment of Religion atColumbia University,President of theTibet House U.S., a…

Ep.13 ~ Remembering Bernie Glassman Roshi Bernie Glassman, an American Zen Master affectionately referred to as “Bernie,” was a vibrant character who had a significant influence on American dharma. Along with being…

Ep.12 ~ Krishna Das chats with Lama Surya Das Krishna Das chats with Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, and a long-time friend….

Ep.11 ~ Well Being “One time, an old lady came to Maharajji, and she said, “Baba, show me God. Show me God, Baba.” And she was all emotional. Baba said, “Ok,…

Ep.10 ~ Selfless Service One time, Mr. Tiwari, my Indian father, was sitting with Maharajji. Maharajji said, “So, you’re a brahmin, you’re supposed to know everything. What does Krishna teach…

Ep.09 ~ Surrender Surrender happens by grace. It’s not an act of personal will. That might be a hard thing to understand because we don’t, you know, grace is such…

Ep.08 ~ Perceived Liberation  “I don’t know. You know, I’ve read a lot of stuff, I’ve been taking teachings from a lot of different types of schools of philosophy, of practice….

Ep.07 ~ Four Fruits Of Life “Hanuman not only gives liberation, frees us, but in the process of freeing us, He allows us to satisfy the desires that we need to…

Ep.06 ~ The Atheist Mind  “The clouds come and go but the sky is always here, so, you can’t disbelieve the sky when you see everything going through it. You may…

Ep.05~ Judging and Acting “You don’t have to judge. Judging means you’re seeing that person as evil. Or bad. And you’re not seeing that that person, just like you, is a…

Ep.04 ~ Desire and Willfulness “Most of everything we do in life is designed to shine us up a little bit, so people will like us and look at us and…

Ep.03 ~ Bearing Witness Unconditional love, it’s a word, it’s a phrase, it’s hard to connect with that. Unconditional love. Just think about the sun. It shines evenly all the…

Ep.02 ~ How Does love Relate to Life  That’s the other thing that happens, you also start to accept all the parts of your life a lot more easily. All…

Ep.01 ~ Talk on the Hanuman Chalisa  Maharajji, Hanuman and The Flow of Grace Towards Love  This is the way Mahrajji was. Everything that came towards Him got something burnt away,…

Ep. 00 ~ Keeping up with daily sadhana and practice In this episode Krishna Das discusses keeping up with our daily practices (sadhana) despite distractions and hurry in our daily…