Closing the year, Krishna Das explores the transformative power of deepening our awareness and how practice helps us navigate life’s challenges.

This time, on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das speaks on:

• Going within and deepening our awareness
• Subjective versus objective experiences
• Advice that Krishna received from Maharaj-ji
• How repeating the name gives us strength
• Practicing awareness and breaking bad habits
• How to work through heartbreak
• Coming back into an object of concentration
• Learning to trust your own heart

“There’s really no within and without except in the sense of physicality. Consciousness is not within or without. It permeates everything. Everything exists inside of awareness, of pure being.” – Krishna Das

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Krishna Das teaches listeners all that is possible through total sincerity of the heart and self-awareness.

This week on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das holds a talk on:

• How Krishna Das’ bar mitzvah transformed his outlook on organized religion
• What initially struck Krishna Das about Zen Buddhism and Indian philosophy
• Sensing an ongoing connection to Ram Dass
• Sitting down and chanting without over-intellectualizing everything
• Having sincerity of heart and being kind to ourselves
• The inner and outer blanket of Maharaj-ji
• The difficult process of forgiving those who have hurt us
• Letting others be who they are and learn their own lessons
• Recognizing that the problems we have with others are often about ourselves

“Try to be kind to yourself. That’s all. You don’t need a mantra to be kind to yourself. You just need to recognize what that means and try to figure out why you’re not kind to yourself. You don’t need magic for that, you just need to pay attention. You need sincerity of heart. That’s what we need.” – Krishna Das

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Contrasting the physical, impermanent world with the ever-present spiritual world, Krishna Das shares insights from the heart space.

This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das shares insights on:

• How each situation has its own parameters
• Practicing the principle of non-harm
• Giving yourself 100% to whatever you are doing
• Conceptualizing our approach to religion
• The love that exists in the non-physical reality within us
• Real love versus conditional love
• Allowing people to be who they are
• Remembering the impermanent nature of pleasure
• The pressure from the times we live in

“Everything in your life can serve the spiritual side if you are ripe enough to pay attention. But most of us, including myself, we just want what we want when we want it and if we don’t get it, we don’t like it. We’re not going to learn a lot in that state of mind.” – Krishna Das

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