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Ram Dass interviewed on the BBC in 1981. Ram Dass talks about how we use techniques that free us from identifying ourselves as our thoughts. As we extricate ourselves from these attachments, it’s as if we are going behind the thoughts, to the space behind them. There is a difference between saying, “I am depressed” and saying ,”There is depression.” In the spaciousness behind the forms is the equanimity. Prisoners can use their time in prison to become free. Prisons are a lot like monasteries. Ram Dass isn’t in the business of pleasure and happiness, but he is in the business of freedom and awakening. When you awaken, you stop identifying with your body. Then, you lose the fear of death.
Amazing, enlightening and joyful. Thank you Ram Dass.
I love when he says that he is only lying because truth has no form. I also feel that words can only tap on the border of what is beyond. Nothing in the realm of forms can portray the eternal laws of the formless, except when you view the variety of forms as one interlocking whole.
To go beyond forms to that place where identities fade and Higher Knowing resides — a worthy quest.
Liked that they put pictures at an exhibition in the credits
Wonderful interview!
thanks !
Ram dass is talking about is the functional components of our consciousness. I just love the way he explains it ,so very precise and so clear.
Fantastic interview. Loved it.
14:20 his smile when the presenter say that: 'Oh, but I did fool you!'
The man must have had so much fun in his life talking to people about this experience! Nice one, Dick!
he is awesome wha a face !!
Why is it sad? He frequently talks about the beauty of aging as we let go of all earthly graces. It's a return trip to ones orgin as we age and a pathway to enlightenment. He challenges us to listen to the "silence between the words" when he says "god stroked me". He talks about how words are lies anyways because the truth of the "one" can not be described with words it is experienced.
Why is it sad? He frequently talks about the beauty of aging as we let go of all earthly graces. It's a return trip to ones orgin as we age and a pathway to enlightenment. He challenges us to listen to the "silence between the words" when he says "god stroked me". He talks about how words are lies anyways because the truth of the "one" can not be described with words it is experienced.