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Ram Dass teaches us about the spiritual path in this lecture on a wide range of subjects. See the god in all, and explore consciousness. We have built up a set of ego habits for gaining satisfaction. For some it involves pleasure; for others, more neurotic, it involves pain. As you look at many people’s lives you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
For here is your choice: Whether you truly wish to escape from the prison or are just fooling yourself. For your ego includes both the suffering and the desire to be free of the suffering. Sometimes we use cures halfheartedly, with the secret hope that the cures will not work. Then we can hold on to our suffering while protesting we want to get free. But meditation does work. It gives you moments of sunlight – of clarity and detachment. Sooner or later you must either stop meditating, do it in a dishonest way, or confront your resistance to change.
When you begin meditation you may approach it as you would a new course in school, a new method to learn, a new goal to achieve. In the past when you took a new course you studied the rules of the game so you’d do well. You wanted to receive a high grade from the teacher, to get approval, or to be more powerful. As you advance in meditation, these external motives fall away. You begin to feel a spiritual pull from within. It is profound and it is scary.
If your mind is agitated and you need to calm your mind down, look around for meditation techniques. Learn how to meditate, and you’ll learn how to quiet the mind. If your heart is tight and closed, approach devotional yogas and techniques.
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Thanks for sharing this with us all! I recently put music to some of Ram Dass great words, have a listen, I hope you´ll enjoy it! https://soundcloud.com/skinny-al/flow-featuring-ram-dass
The human body is not the dancer but the dance. Inside that human body is the creator (dancer) and its recording everything. Don't let that scare you….lean into it.
Is this Descartes or Freud's line of thought?
friendly wishes to everybody from austria, tyrolean mountains, to be still alive is so beautiful, long live rockn roll, rip great ram dass, we love you, all the best to everybody round the world, especially carola in burning down under,lots of love , to claudia in sao paulo , muitos beijos, to nana tomasa in chichicastenango, bendiciones, to norbert and johanna in fuckin germany, keep on lovin….
Watched ‘the happening’ after this, damn M Night Shayamalan is a secret Buddha genius
Do people from India take psychedelic drugs and join european christian monastaries?
My God almighty ! THANKYOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
“What do you get when you insert a penny in to the ass of each of the five members of the band Smash Mouth?
Nickelback.”
—Baba Neil Hamburger
Russell Brand has a,resemblance in facial features or is it just me¿ 😂
Can anybody link me a transcript to this lecture? Wracking my brain!!
Thank you. This is so sweet. I'm sorry I never met him. I'm glad to hear his wisdom
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for thee.
So long Ram.
I remember Ram Das and Timothy Leary in the news when I was a kid. The anti-establishment and hippie generation tried to move toward higher consciousness in a collective way. Manifestation is caught up in ego made up of mind and thought believed by mind to be separate identities. Ram encourages not to buy into that. To quiet the mind, accept whatever comes your way and move into peace and knowing of who you really are.