On a journey to launch the tales that maintain us again from our true selves, Dharma trainer Judith Ragir and Raghu Markus assessment therapeutic wounds and altering karma for generations.

Raghu and Judith talk about household trauma, shifting past our conditioning, and find out how to restore our hearts.

Judith Ragir (also referred to as Byakuren in Buddhist circles) is a Dharma trainer within the Zen lineage of Katagiri Roshi. She was instrumental in founding the Clouds in Water Zen Heart in St. Paul, Minnesota, the place she was the Guiding Trainer for 9 years and is presently Senior Dharma Trainer Emeritus. An completed artist, Ragir makes Buddhist-inspired quilts that are on show in Buddhist Facilities round america. Her written items have appeared in lots of anthologies, together with The Eightfold Path, Zen Teachings in Difficult Instances, The Hidden Lamp, The Path of Compassion, Seeds of Advantage-Seeds of Change and Receiving the Marrow. Take a look at her newly launched guide, Untangling Karma: Intimate Zen Tales on Therapeutic Trauma.

“The woundedness will get healed each psychologically but in addition by way of religious observe, by way of God consciousness coming into you. You then really feel like one thing bigger than your self is holding you, serving to you, and supplying you with love.” – Judith Ragir

About Raghu Markus:

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

In 1974, he collaborated with Ram Dass on the field set Love Serve Keep in mind. In 1990, he launched Triloka Information, which established itself as a crucial chief within the growth of world music. For 17 years, Triloka was dwelling to such artists as Krishna Das, Hugh Masekela, Walela, Jai Uttal and transformational media tasks that featured Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, and Les Nubians.

Raghu lives in Ojai, California, and is the Government Director of the Love Serve Keep in mind Basis. In 2016, he co-founded the Be Right here Now Community, the place he hosts the Ram Dass Right here & Now podcast, in addition to his personal Mindrolling podcast. He’s the producer of Changing into No person, a Ram Dass documentary function movie that was launched in 2019.

Raghu’s weekly podcast, Mindrolling, is about coming unstuck and the latest historical past of awoken consciousness. It’s concerning the intersection of tradition, consciousness and realization.

Mindrolling the Phrase occurs to be a Tibetan monastery custom, the house of “the backyard of ripening and liberation.” For Raghu Markus, it’s a rock and rolling dialog remembering the sixties, digesting the seventies, paralleling then and now, proper now, as we discover our manner within the twenty first century.

Photograph through judithragir.org