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An evening with Ram Dass where he discusses importance of intuition, incorporating darkness and light, and ultimately embracing one’s humanity.
Recorded on August 7, 1982 in Pacific Grove, California.
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In this lecture, Ram Dass discusses the changes he’s experienced in himself over the many years that he’s been teaching. He admits to having been caught in the separateness of acting as a ‘holy man’, trying to live through other’s expectations. He found that eventually, he had to acknowledge the part of him that was using the spiritual path to avoid the things he couldn’t face in himself, and that the game wasn’t about getting high, but getting free. This requires embracing all of life, incorporating the darkness into the light. The human heart is the doorway to intuition and our actions must come from the blending of humanity and divinity. Until we fully accept our humanity, our intuition will lack harmony. When we embrace our uniqueness and accept responsibility for the creation of who we are, we begin to let go of the forms that keep us separate. If we can identify with our inner being then we can open to a much broader appreciation of the outer world in which we must live. We can learn to operate within our roles, without getting lost in them. Who we think we are disappears, and we find action in that previously confined energy.
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What a gift he continues to be ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for posting this. Seeing Baba Ram Das was powerful as was the song at the end. Pure Joy
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post-introduction talk begins at 6:25
So grateful for these teachings🙏💖🌻
he is breaking his cocoon
I'll never forget when I first listened to Ram Dass. He changed my perception on life!
That was an incredible talk, and I enjoyed it all the way through and laughed a lot! But when Ram Dass started singing at the end- I had a shift. First it made me smile really big, then when the folks in the audience sang on their own at the very end in such beautiful harmony… I started crying. It was so beautiful and I FELT the oneness in that moment. Thank you RD for these constant and wonderful reminders of who I am. 🙏💗
The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.
People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.
Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.
Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view. Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body. True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.
He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.
Your ❤is not living until it has experienced pain… the pain of love breaks open the
💔 ~ even if it is as hard as a rock. As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness. The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own. The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
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🙏 Namaste'
The woman in the beginning is high as a kite.
I loved it. And the song at the end!!! Who else sang along?
“Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing”. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I was wondering if it was ok that I'm starting to wear more purple, but now I totally understand.
Minor Satori.
Thank you Baba!
Love and respect 🌻🪶🪐
I'm in awe of Ram Dass… he has opened my mind and heart to so many ideas and realities. A man who was not afraid to talk about his weakness in order that others could accept their own. Bless you, Ram Dass – My Guru
His obvious mindful breaths are sooo beautiful!!!!!
'Rammed ass.' Every time I see the name, I see a rammed ass.
Ram ram 🙏🌹🙏🌹