Ram Dass

This course is built around practice first - with teachings to support and deepen what you're discovering along the way. Ram Dass always said there are many paths up the mountain. Sign up here: ramdass.org/course/ 📚These ten days are an invitation to find what actually works for you. Each day introduces a different path, with one simple thread running through all of them: there is no single right way to practice. It’s up to each of us to find our own way up the mountain. Our courses are hosted on the Ram Dass Inner Academy, a virtual community platform that hosts over 7,000 students.

Ram Dass is joined by a young Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield for a meaningful talk about mindfulness and food.🎧 beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-here-… This discussion on mindfulness and food is part of the Naropa University Bhagavad Gita Sessions of 1974. We are given a new perception of what it is that we are eating. Ram Dass, Joseph, and Jack help us to understand that there is a connection between what sustains us and who we are. #ramdass #podcast

🌻 Join @JackKornfield for free tonight at 5pm PT / 8pm ET: youtube.com/watch?v=t-5of4… Tonight, we open our live course Many Paths, One Mountain: Practices for Living with Awareness and Heart - and we're giving the first session away for free. Jack Kornfield is leading off, with a teaching and guided practice on concentration - using the breath as a simple anchor for awareness. No registration or cost, just show up and join in community! #ramdass #meditation

The Place of Us (Audio) 🎧 ramdass.org/the-place-of-u… Ram Dass explores the variety of ways in which we enter into relationships, eventually coming to the understanding that we are all God, and must act accordingly. (recorded in 1969) #ramdass #youtube #meditation #yoga

Un amor puro y perfecto ➡️ ramdass.org/un-amor-puro-y… "Durante el verano de 1973 me estaba quedando en la granja de mi padre en New Hampshire, y fue allí donde llego el telegrama en Septiembre. Mi padre y mi madrastra , mostrándose preocupados, me buscaron cuando yo regresaba de hacer las compras en el pueblo. Papa dijo, “Este telegrama acaba de llegar de India, no le entiendo, pero lo copie palabra por palabra como me lo dictaba el operador” “A la 1:15, el 11 de septiembre, Babaji dejo su bojhay (sic) en Vrindaban…” El telegrama seguía con algunos detalles. Mi papa me pregunto, “¿Qué significa?” “Significa” le dije, “que Maharaji murió”." – Ram Dass, extracto de Milagro de Amor: Historias Sobre Neem Karoli Baba #ramdass #love

Hi everyone, Tonight at 5pm PT / 8pm ET, we open our live course Many Paths, One Mountain: Practices for Living with Awareness and Heart - and we're giving the first session away for free. Jack Kornfield is leading off, with a teaching and guided practice on concentration - using the breath as a simple anchor for awareness. No registration or cost, just show up and join in community! >> Join Jack for free tonight at 5pm PT / 8pm ET: youtube.com/watch?v=t-5of4… If these teachings land for you, nine more sessions and daily lessons follow over the next two weeks - each teacher walking through a different door into practice. Live each weekday at 5pm PT / 8pm ET, with replay included. #ramdass #mediation #course #awareness

In this lecture from 1974, at Naropa University, Ram Dass talks about our unhealthy preoccupation with our individual differences.🎧 beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-here-… We grow up with the identity of a separate self, building an entire character around that separate self. From this, we begin identifying others based around our character development. In this episode, Ram Dass gives insight on how our practice helps us move beyond our patterns and perception of individual differences. #ramdass #podcast

Starting TOMORROW Monday April 13 - April 24 🌻 Many Paths, One Mountain: A 10-Day Practice Course with Ram Dass & Friends Sign up here: ramdass.org/course/ This course is an offering for these times: Ten days of meditation, mindfulness, chanting, and devotion – a way to stay rooted to your path. To reconnect with what you already know. To meet the world from awareness and love, amidst the division and fear. 📚These ten days are an invitation to find what actually works for you. #ramdass #course #love #practice

The Cost of Denying Suffering ➡️ ramdass.org/the-cost-of-de… "In the ascent and descent between planes of consciousness, there are two kinds of fears that people often face. On the way up, there is the fear of dying or surrendering or losing control, giving up what you are familiar with. When you’re starting to move into these other planes of consciousness that have a different perspective, the one you were holding onto has to let go before the new one can enter in. That moment of letting go is like when you’re climbing, and you have to reach for something but you have to kind of let go of the last thing to reach for the next thing, and there’s a moment of tremendous anxiety in that – so is the anxiety of dying into the next plane of awareness." - Ram Dass

On Desire Falling Away➡️ ramdass.org/on-desire-fall… "Each time I would come back to the United States, from spending time in India, I would try very hard to hold onto my high. I would live in the country in a very remote place and just make infrequent journeys out into the world. Despite this, I found that I was still vulnerable to the seductions of the world and I had to accept the responsibility that they weren’t doing it to me, I was doing it to me." - Ram Dass

Where Are We Going? ➡️ ramdass.org/where-are-we-g… "Most of us have figured out where we’re going right now, but haven’t figured out how to get there. It turns out you don’t have to figure out how to get there because if you just keep in mind where you’re going, you get there anyway. Most of us are are full of all kinds of stuff. Our heads are full of… “Hay and rags,” like they say in “My Fair Lady.” We get caught in our stuff over and over again. Around me now, everybody’s playing a new game of stuff." - Ram Dass

Ram Dass has a Sunday hangout session with Raghu. The two chat about the concept of the ‘soul-complex’, how RD manages his suffering, as well as duality and devotion.🎧 beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-here-… Ram Dass and Raghu discuss the ‘soul-complex’ and the transition process between lives. They also consider the similarities between dual and nondual systems. Explaining how the limitations of one are complemented by the other, and how the two have different means to the same end. #ramdass #podcast

Selfhood: Spirit and Personality ➡️ ramdass.org/selfhood-spiri… There are many stages of the process of transformation. There is a stage where you feel something in you that is behind your social facade and your social relationships to people. You feel a somebody-ness which we call a soul. You feel yourself as an entity. Then, as you get deeper into the transformative work, that thing starts to dissolve. Then there is no self, there is nobody, there is only one. So then you ask:

On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass talks about our separation from the One, getting back to God, and what we must do to make it happen.🎧 beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-here-… #ramdass #podcast

In-Person NYC Event – A Day in the Heart: A LSRF Benefit with @KrishnaDas, @SharonSalzberg & More! 🌼 app.brightstarevents.com/event/ffcc3e03… Come celebrate the legacy of our beloved Ram Dass. Bring your friends, your heart, your love of kirtan and community, and join us on ⭐Saturday, June 6th⭐ at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on the Upper West Side for A Day in the Heart: A LSRF Benefit with Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg & more! You’ll enjoy a full day of satsang, storytelling, film, and live music, all in support of the Love Serve Remember Foundation and its mission to preserve and continue the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass.

St. John of The Cross and Dark Night of the Soul ➡️ ramdass.org/st-john-of-the… Excerpt from Dark Night of The Soul by St. John of The Cross Translated by E. Allison Peers Although this happy night brings darkness to the spirit, it does so only to give it light in everything; and that, although it humbles it and makes it miserable, it does so only to exalt it and to raise it up; and, although it impoverishes it and empties it of all natural affection and attachment, it does so only that it may enable it to stretch forward, divinely, and thus to have fruition and experience of all things, both above and below, yet to preserve its unrestricted liberty of spirit in them all.

Who Am I? ➡️ ramdass.org/who-am-i/ Our concepts of who we are help us to navigate our world, but they are often overvalued and have the potential to trap us in form. These traits create an image with which we identify, and subsequently struggle to maintain as we are presented with life’s inevitable changes. In this talk, given at the University of Vermont, Ram Dass begins by asking the question, ‘Who am I?’. Are we the vast array of personality traits that arise in our day to day lives? Can we pinpoint exactly who or what we are within our body, mind or spirit? These questions, as Ram Dass explains, continuously led him back into the void, as every answer he had was ultimately untrue. He eventually learned to identify with the creator, rather than the creation, and his sense of separateness began to dissolve. We often fail to recognize that we too are a part of the lawful unfolding of nature. From a higher perspective we can sometimes see that it’s all perfect, but that attitude is difficult to maintain in the presence of real suffering. If we attempt to live in either of these extremes, then we’re standing, ‘somewhere’, and there’s nowhere to stand. Our incarnation isn’t an error, and where we are is exactly where we are supposed to be, in this moment. We can’t push away our humanity, as freedom comes through form, not in spite of it. – Ram Dass (University of Vermont – Burlington, VT – 10/30/1986)

What happens when your righteousness and mind trips disappear? ➡️ ramdass.org/what-happens-w… "The predicament is that as you awaken you realize you have been the perpetrator of the conspiracy you’re caught in. It’s not real paranoia, it’s not like, “They did it to me. They’ve got this terrible conspiracy.” You’re it. You are it. We are it. We are the conspiracy, and the interesting question is, when you extricate your awareness from being part of the conspiracy, what happens? A mature person isn’t in the conspiracy, and is not in the conspiracy even to the point of putting down the conspiracy. They’re just not in it, and then them not being in it, buying it, becomes freedom they are able to offer others, for them to also not get caught in it all. It’s as if we meet through our prison cells." - Ram Dass

Starting Monday April 13 - April 24 🌻 Many Paths, One Mountain: A 10-Day Practice Course with Ram Dass & Friends Sign up here: ramdass.org/course/ This course is an offering for these times: Ten days of meditation, mindfulness, chanting, and devotion – a way to stay rooted to your path. To reconnect with what you already know. To meet the world from awareness and love, amidst the division and fear. 📚These ten days are an invitation to find what actually works for you. #ramdass #course #love #practice

Attachment & Addiction ➡️ ramdass.org/attachment-add… Ram Dass answers questions about attachment, addiction and relationships. The root of suffering is the clinging of the mind to the things which separate one from all of it. When that separation happens, there is incredible pain and in some profound way all of our actions henceforth are an attempt to return back into the One… #ramdass

Ram Dass and Raghu Markus talk about imagination, faith, and gratitude. Ram Dass teaches us to see through our own delusions that mislead us and weigh us down with fear.🎧beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-here-… #ramdass #podcast