From gang violence in LA to the beauty of belonging, Father Greg Boyle inspires listeners to recognize our shared humanity and put love into action.

Grab your copy of Father Greg’s most recent book, Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times.

This week on Mindrolling, Father Greg and Raghu discuss:

• Becoming anchored in the truth of interconnectedness
• The ‘Decade of Death’, a period of severe gang violence in LA
• Being with suffering and allowing it to transform
• The unshakable goodness within us all
• Belonging as the vitality of relationships
• Inviting people rather than indicting people
• How God sustains us through all things
• Compassion as the answer to every question

“Belonging is more than inclusion, it’s the vitality of relationships. What makes it vital is the rolling up of sleeves. Cherishing is love with its sleeves rolled up, it’s connective tissue. It can’t stay in the air, your head, or even your heart—it gets to your feet.” —Father Greg Boyle

About Father Greg Boyle:

Father Greg Boyle is an American Jesuit priest and the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world. In 2024, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’s highest civilian honor. He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. He is the acclaimed author of Tattoos on the Heart, Barking to the Choir, and most recently Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times.

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Author and music executive Danny Goldberg joins Raghu to talk about tapping into the basic goodness inside us all.

This week on Mindrolling, Danny and Raghu discuss:

• Our basic goodness as human beings
• The deep spiritual experiences that can happen outside of organized religion
• Breathing contemporary life into ancient spirituality
• Govinda, a famous devotional track produced by George Harrison
• Universalism and taking different paths to the same place
• Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and nonviolent resistance
• Seeing everyone as the Buddha, as ‘God in drag’
• Wise Compassion: Using your brain and your heart

About Danny Goldberg:

Danny Goldberg is an author and music executive who has spent decades in the business. As a manager, Danny represented Bonnie Raitt, Nirvana, The Allman Brothers Band, and Sonic Youth. As a label executive, he was President of Atlantic Records, and Chairman of Warner Bros. Records and the Mercury Records Group – among others. Danny Goldberg’s previous books include Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment and Resistance to Trump, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, How The Left Lost Teen Spirit, Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside The Rock and Roll Business and In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. Learn more about Danny and his work HERE.

“You need to go to the mountaintop for the inspiration but then to be the kind of person Dr. King wanted us to be, you gotta minister to the valley. We need both.” —Danny Goldberg

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Outlining our inevitable oneness with the world, Buddhist scholar Jack Petranker joins Raghu to explore letting go of habitual stories and fully inhabiting each moment.

Check out Jack’s recently released book, One with the World: A Path to Living with Presence and Appreciation

This week on Mindrolling, Jack and Raghu discuss:

• Jack’s teacher, Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku
• How we often take our experiences too seriously
• Krishna Das’s perspective on the stories we tell ourselves
• Treating each moment as an ongoing adventure
• The logic of experience and our inevitable oneness with the world
• The habitual beliefs that get us into trouble
• Ways in which the self makes us small
• Causality vs. the truth of the way things are
• The quiet courage to accept whatever arises

“If we learn to inhabit our experience fully, then, every moment becomes a kind of ongoing adventure and opportunity to open out into our experience in new ways. That’s really what I mean when I talk about being one with the world. In the logic of experience, we are inevitably one with the world—there’s no choice in the matter.” –Jack Petranker

About Jack Petranker:

Jack Petranker holds a law degree from Yale and an M.A. in political theory from the University of California, Berkeley. A former Dean of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, he has also served as North American Vice President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (1988-92). He is the founder of the Center for Creative Inquiry and serves as its senior teacher and regularly teaches and lectures in the United States and Europe. He has been a close student of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku for more than 40 years. Jack lives in Berkeley, California. Learn more about Jack on his website.

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