Ep. 585 – Down to Earth Dharma with Rebecca Bradshaw
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Getting down to earth and into the heart, Rebecca Bradshaw joins Raghu to discuss balancing masculine and feminine energy in the dharma.
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This time on Mindrolling, Raghu and Rebecca chat about:
- Rebecca’s journey of waking up and finding her path
- Earth-based religions and getting down to earth
- Rebecca’s 5-month stint in silent meditation
- Approaching practice from the heart rather than the mind
- Discovering the feminine archetype within the dharma
- The masculine energy often found within Buddhist communities and early scriptures
- Going deep down within the receptive heart space
- Cultivating intimacy with all things and focusing on relationship
- Dissolving the three roots of suffering (greed hatred and delusion)
- The practice of useless gazing and surrendering to the moment without an agenda
- Acclimating to the truth of impermanence and letting go of the need to control
- The acquired taste of being open and working at it over time
Snag a copy of Rebecca’s book, Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Hear, HERE
About Rebecca Bradshaw:
Rebecca is Guiding Teacher Emeritus of the Insight Meditation Society and the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Easthampton, Massachusetts. She has been practicing Buddhist Vipassana meditation since 1983 in the United States and Myanmar (Burma) and teaching since 1993. She completed her dharma teacher training at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she is part of the three-month retreat teacher team and leads retreats for young adults. Rebecca has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and has worked as a bi-lingual (Spanish/English) psychotherapist. Her upcoming book, Down to Earth Dharma, was published by Shambhala Publications in November 2024. Check out Rebecca’s website, HERE.
“There’s this emphasis on transcendence, energetic striving, independence, and all these things that are in the masculine archetype. They felt like some balance was missing, that’s how it felt to me, and that a lot of it had to do with dropping into the heart, dropping into the body, feeling.” – Rebecca Bradshaw
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| 0:00.0 | So here we are. This is mind rolling, and I am back, and I am with, we just, somebody who have so many, really quite close relationships with. |
| 0:29.5 | It's just kind of amazing, you know. Rebecca, Bradshaw, welcome to mind rolling. |
| 0:36.2 | Thank you. It's so much fun to be with you. |
| 0:39.1 | So Rebecca teaches insight meditation and wrote this, well, let me tell you my story about this book. |
| 0:50.1 | It's called Down to Earth Dharma. |
| 0:53.2 | And my interest, you know, in any of discussions around consciousness, et cetera, the path, |
| 1:04.9 | down to earth is a term that I would use for what mind rolling does. |
| 1:10.6 | And just getting it out of any esoteric or hard to digest, |
| 1:16.6 | especially if you're not in this case a Buddhist. |
| 1:20.6 | And I talk to a lot of Buddhists because we do that. |
| 1:25.6 | You know, our path is the path of the heart, |
| 1:30.0 | and all these retreats that we do and content that we do, |
| 1:34.3 | you know, courses and everything, |
| 1:36.4 | it's really a combination, |
| 1:39.1 | which you have later in the book, |
| 1:40.7 | which we can talk about heart wisdom, |
| 1:42.9 | and it really is a combination of the two. But anyhow, I get to the book, which we can talk about heart wisdom. And it really is a combination of the two. |
| 1:45.8 | But anyhow, I get to your book. |
| 1:48.5 | It was sent to me because I'm friends with, you know, |
| 1:52.2 | those wonderful Shambala publishers. |
| 1:57.3 | And I go, okay, another mindfulness book. |
| 2:02.5 | I'm getting so bored with mindfulness. |
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