Energy
As long as you are somebody you are dealing with finite energy. Tuning into higher energy is not possible if ego is present. The secret to tuning into higher energy is that you get it all when there is...
View ArticleHow May I Serve You?
How may I serve you in the journey we are all on to come to the light? That's the only possibility we have as humans. As Hanuman said in the Ramayana "When the cloud of duality covers me I serve Ram....
View ArticleShiva's Dance of Life
Ram Dass teaches us the mantra "aditya rdiyam punyam sari shatru bena shenam" meaning "All evil vanishes from life for him who keeps the sun in his heart." When you understand that thought comes from...
View ArticleRama Rama
A guru is somebody who is a pure mirror, so pure that when you meet that being you immediately see where you are caught. Ram Dass talks about the mirror of the guru, mentioning "I know more than I...
View ArticleReflections on Suffering Part 1
The clinging of mind is the cause of suffering. Suffering gives you clues to the ways you are clinging, and we make the nature of things our enemy. If you are going to be available for someone else's...
View ArticleReflections on Suffering Pt. 2
Raghu reveals an interesting confession about an LSD experience he had involving the death of his ego and the birth of a very specific concern. Ram Dass discusses the art of dying and suffering....
View ArticleSpirituality and Politics
The world is a reflection of our internal state; if we dwell on turmoil, anger and confusion then that's how the world will be perceived to the individual. You have to work on yourself first before you...
View ArticleHuman Heart
Media can destroy the message in the way it delivers it, similarly, as long as I have a price I am transmitting fear, because I have something to lose. The minute I have no price, I can transmit...
View ArticlePersonality and Emotions
One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response...
View ArticleRisk Being Human
What we offer each other is our truth, which includes all of our "stuff." We have to allow ourselves to be human. The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves...
View ArticleAging and the Awakening
The nature of aging is change. We are fascinated by watching that which changes. When change starts to happen to who we think we are, the fascination turns into fear. We are living in a system that is...
View ArticleBattle Between Mind and Heart
There's another way of being in the universe. The Chinese call it "the heart mind" or as we may call it "the intuitive mind." Rather than knowing through dualistic means or thinking about it, one...
View ArticleLove Beyond Time's Reach
Being in the presence of dying people keeps me close to the edge of my own awakening. Love touches time and turns it to dust. Love is beyond the reach of time. -Ram Dass
View ArticlePromises and Pitfalls
Ram Dass talks about the promises and the pitfalls of the spiritual path, and the shift of reality that happened in the sixties that was predicated by psychedelics. This shift blew apart the...
View ArticlePromises and Pitfalls Pt. 2
The quality of a really good teacher is rascalism. All you need to know is this: If you want to be free, use the teacher to the fullest extent. Their karmic problems are their karmic problems.
View ArticlePromises and Pitfalls Pt. 3
The spiritual journey is a different path than what you thought you were on. It's very hard to make the transition to that path because we tend to take the power from the spiritual work we do to make...
View ArticleAlduous Huxley
Alduous Huxley preceded Ram Dass and Tim Leary in explorations of the remote frontiers of the mind and unmapped areas of human consciousness. In doors of perception, Huxley studied the profound effects...
View ArticleSwimming with Dolphins
Swimming with the dolphins connected me immediately to my intuitive heart space. They were a mirror of non-judgmental awareness that reminded me of being with Maharaji. Being with him felt like being...
View ArticleTrungpa Rinpoche Pt. 2
Ram Dass interviews Trungpa Rinpoche at the Dharma Festival in 1973.
View ArticleTrungpa Rinpoche
Ram Dass talks about his relationship with the great Tibetan Lama, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Includes detailed moments with Trungpa and Ram Dass at different events and venues in the early 70’s where...
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