In this wonderfully honest conversation with one of the most significant and beloved spiritual figures in America today, teacher and musician, Krishna Das, we touch upon a lot of different things, both personal, and more general teachings.

KD tells us how some of the emotional sufferings from the past are still with him, but how the energy has gone out of them, land that makes all the difference.

We speak about surrender, what it is, what it isn’t and how actually does the surrendering…

We speak about the ego and the longing to be free, and how he views intention in all this

KD tells us to hold our practice with a very light hand, heart and mind, without pushing and without pride and without stories of how great we are because we are practicing, or how bad we are because we don’t think we are doing it right, or getting anywhere

“I don’t think about myself that much anymore - that’s happiness…”

“If you don’t add a practice to your life, you don’t even notice how gone you are - away from your being…”

KD tells us why chanting is so effective… and how different things work for different people, and different practices work at different times

He also tells us about his experience and the benefits of his Buddhist practices

And we speak about romantic love… the expectations, the beauty and the shadow… And how love is not something we fall in or fall out of, love just is - it’s not even an emotion, it’s what we are

And when we talk about this love, he says, it’s synonymous with presence and pure beingness

He also tells us why Maharaji sent him back to America. And how Maharaji was friends with the head of a criminal gang! And - can you believe this - Maharaji had his own cell in the prison in Agra, where he could go to hide from his devotees!!!

Kd also tells us how he feels that he betrayed Maharaji, by not going back to India immediately when Maharaji asked him to… how he was too attached to a woman back in America

We speak about purpose in life, and you can also hear what KD’s favorite thing to do is, apart from chanting.

Kd tell us that the fruit of the practice ,is spending less and less time thinking about oneself

I also ask him about his relationship with nature

KD also tells us about his deep awakening experience in India in 1995

And he tells us what Krishnadassness is ;-)

Enjoy!

His website is:  www.krishnadas.com

My website is: www.duritaholm.com