I sat in the living room at 6:15 am with my twin boys (4 1/2) and listed to Ram Dass on my headphones while they watched a show. They asked what I was listening to I said ‘just a guy talking’ … what is he talkin’ about one of them asked. ‘Life’ I said . He replied, ‘is that where we play?’ . Exactly!! I responded . I’m always impressed with the children and their uninhibited connection to the truth and the pureness of life.
At 37, in a rehab with no plan, a fellow housemate gave me the book “be here now”. I started following Ram Dass and i became sober. I read that book before the Big Book of AA. Now, 76yrs old, 39yrs sober, I have the need to listen to him even more. What a deal!
Cr Hill...yes, we need all these guys. I listen to Alan Watts. Congrats on your Strength and Recovery. Ram Das is new to me. Did I try to read Be Here Be Now in early 70's? Stay Healthy and FIT, my friend.
Isn’t it crazy? It’s not that the pain stops, it’s not EXACTLY that you appreciate the suffering, but it a like morphine, you just don’t care anymore, you’re focused.
Years ago, you came to New Mexico and gave a lecture at UNM. Way up in the cheap seats, sat a guy who was at rock bottom, riding his mtn bike thru traffic hoping he'd die, finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, coming out, his less than useful Baha’i religious community he was once active in rejected him and threw him out for being gay, his family was less than any help, he was in the middle of a soap opera. But, after that evening, he KNEW…. no... I KNEW I would survive. The magic began to return to my life. There are no words enough for the gratitude I have for you! And now, I am an old man, a grandfather, and as I first gazed into my grandson’s eyes… I whispered, “We are all loving awareness!” I wouldn't BE HERE NOW, if I hadn't gone to that lecture... Namaste dear, dear teacher!
An interesting path walked well good sir! I suddenly, in my mid fifties as time is measured, just discovered this facet of truth- somehow I missed Ram Dass entirely and I saw Timothy Leary speak in the early 90’s so I’m in the loop a little bit! But this is the power Ram Dass describes as being outside of space and time - his message still reaches me even though his physical form has passed- and I needed to have had my experiences prepare me for this work but I’m ready for it - there’s little I don’t understand if only by theory, I’ve already listened to hundreds of hours of Alan Watts Terrance McKenna and Bashar - heck I know who Korzibsky is and why Watts et al refer to him but how did I not see a random video for Ram Dass until now? Because now I am ready.
US War Veteran that has listened to Ram Dass and found out who he really is...........Helped so much in healing. Thank you Ram Dass and Maharaji for your teachings and spirit. Pranam
When life gets heavy, and I feel like I have no one to turn to, and my mind simply can’t settle… I turn to you. There is a fathers love in the sound of your voice, comfort in your words, and the feeling of being home by being in your presence. So thankful for you.
I heard you and felt the tears coming up, just a minute before I was no knowing, just feeling and little confused, but when I read your sentence, I knew, I feel the same. Thank you Lisa and thank you Ram Dass (I know him for a very long time now), may you find solace (had to search the word, excuse my bad english, I´m from Southwest Germany) and compassion for yourself and others.
hello..honest good comment..yes, it is good being thankful for him, even better is having the sincere desire for enlightenment and being a devoted seeker..thankful to God for arranging all of it for you..wishing you the best always
You hit the proverbial 'nail on the head' with your words. Exactly what was in my mind and my heart. His love transcends his death and we can always 'come home' to his message.
Always at the right time Ram Dass pops up like a joker with the right words to blow open my heart and let tears melt the cold spits inside…. Thank you 🙏❤️
Saturday night I was watching this. It was my first lecture of Ram Dass. I was crying during the last 30 mins. And he actually passed away the next day.
What a beautiful medium for divine grace he is. He has left the body and is still able to move us to tears by reminding us of the pure loving awareness within us. Much love to all. x
I love that to about him. It's so great when a teacher has come such a long way and still is like the rest of us in his humanity. So much gold in that talk. 😊🙏♥️
@Michael Kean "In 1994, in an interview with gay journalist Mark Thompson, later published in his book, "Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature," Mr Dass publicly came out, one of the first New Age celebrities to do so."
@Michael Kean I'm really confused about how him not coming out until 1994 even really means anything? Like what's your point? Maybe he felt it would take away from the message he was trying to give to the world, especially considering it's not like the world was super accepting of gay folks? But furthermore, we don't follow ram Dass like he's Jesus. He's not a prophet, and he's not perfect. We listen to his words and ideas because they resonate and make sense, his advice and philosophy make sense. It's not him, it's his teachings.
@Michael Kean who else are you angry at? Are you angry at him for not fighting your battle? Cosmic laughter. You are angry at a facet of yourself. Forgive yourself for not coming out earlier. Forgive your culture for making coming out a battle you must wage. Forgive humanity for needing connection. Forgive love for wanting to exist outside of itself. Forgive existence for not staying in the infinite emptiness, but choosing to differentiate, so that you could learn once more what it is to choose love. But first, be angry. Hooray! Now, choose! 😘🥰❤
56:21 “When you want to be high, everything that brings you down becomes a nuisance. When you want to be free, everything that brings you down shows you where you’re bring-able down-able. It’ll show you where your holy. And you’ll begin to hate it and love it at the same time”
I've known Ram Dass for less than one week, and I am taken. I am blown away by so many thoughts and feelings I have had my entire life (as he says you have all the "clues you need") and I misunderstood them for different things which I can reprocess (if you will) better knowing what I know now. I feel that such freedom has been offered to me by his amazing way of communication. Thank you for sharing.
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@tanon Bro you're the one being an asshole, let people have their views. One person stating there is no proof of god/afterlife so there is none is just as close minded and potentially ignorant as the one that says they experienced those things so they must be true. Stay open
@tanon alright that's fair on the reply, I mean there isn't a point if there is no chance of you changing your opinion. You seem set in stone. I don't have any conclusive evidence personally, but it is clear to me that we really have no idea, and the great mysteries have not been explained away by science. So what I am saying is you can't make the claim that god/afterlife don't exist. We are a fractal within a fractal, think of an ant crawling on the sidewalk, it does not even know what humans are. A human steps on an ant and it doesn't even have a chance to gain any conception of what happened before it's gone. We are likely in a similar relationship to things bigger than us, only just like the ant we have no idea what is bigger than us. I mean really bigger, not simply asteroids and planets. So big we can not make a little diagram of it, we have no conception.
I love all your many selves since the sixties! now with creaking bones , and falling out hair, I laughed so hard my poor weak bladder leaked! I can't remember much these days but your sharing and the old slang brought some of the truth back. You brought me to Neem Karoli Baba He recently left a rose on my windshield at a parking lot where no one new me! I begged for him to take this rock heart away, and now I can cry when I experience anything sweet or sour, especially at the cheap take out.I pray for you and your work to never end. Namaste Judith
This is so good. Sometimes I come back to Ram Dass and his talks reset me. IDK if that makes sense, but I get these seconds (they only last a couple of seconds) where I feel the way he is explaining , the high. Through meditation....I think that it may be moments of non thought, or relief or just acceptance. The acceptance, oneness....trying to get that back is like trying to catch a butterfly. These days, any form of relief seems pretty appropriate. Acceptance of the way things are today is such a challenge, but what is more challenging is having faith that we will all come out the other side peacefully and able to see it with our eyes while we are still alive.
My best analogy is it is like I am tuning an old car radio, turning the dial. You turn it all day and every now and then the transmission comes in clear and it is pure bliss!
My first time hearing this man. I don't really know what to think... I Know this, I have gone through so many different spiritual paths like this man. And I tell you a sense of humor to describe this torment... It really made me laugh. My spirit was in so much need of this. This helped me to laugh at myself with all the effort I put into spiritual growth. What an amazing sense of humor 😂
I love the content, but Baba Ram Dass’ voice in this talk is quite soothing. I used to listen to this regularly when I was just diagnosed with a life threatening disease and didn’t know about my life expectancy. This video helped me enormously. Love
Admin here - loved your comment and appreciate your listening. Ram Dass is so amazing with how many he comforts throughout the whole world - including me!
Ram Das you are awesome.l was in trouble. I came from land of Rumi. But l learned from you what Rumi meant. I read it in persian but now l m clear. I'm ashamed to speak persian but yet l couldn't grasp it. You feel rumi before saying the translation . There are truly a few like you. Not many. What you teach is sacred.
I have heard that we are entering or are in the Age of Aquarius whereby there will be collectively more transparency and lessening of ego. I guess as masses of individuals awaken, deception and injustice will become less tolerated. 🙏💚🌅
I am a clear case of “fake it until you make it.“ I’ve been listening to Ram Dass talk for years and slowly… It seeps in. I have found his words to be of great comfort; I have a clear path of attraction to follow now.
After years of listening to these beautiful words I finally found God in another person's eyes, I see myself. The other person is experiencing the same breath taking experience and he is not spiritual at all. His words make sense and I no longer need the trap. I wept for you this morning Ram.
There is so much love here... in Ram Dass, in what he is speaking about/pointing to... I remember the first time I ever picked up one of his books, "The Only Dance There Is" and I KNEW that he KNEW. Then I made my way to Maui this past winter to attend "open your heart in paradise" retreat and as I sat in front of him, there was only him and I and a love that FILLED ME up beyond anything I'd ever experienced, my body could not even hold it... unforgettable experience.. Thank you RD
Yes,it is good to thank him..but dont forget,even better is to thank God for setting it all up where this good man would be a trusted vehicle to spread true love,wisdom, joy and the ultimate insight and freedom...wish you well
It is all as it must be, here now. Yes, and this too. Baba Ram Dass, our teacher and friend, may your life and love continue always. We are all so thankful!
@@dnbjedi I screenshot this comment. It made me laugh first, and then it made me nod in agreement. I resemble this comment on so many levels. Blessings, Peace, and Love 💛
I heard this lecture a year ago and it changed my entire life and gave words to my experiences, I pulled my life up from the gutter and see and share now many cosmic giggles with my loved ones. Thank you so much for uploading this. ♡
Yes it is good to thank him..even better is to thank God for setting it all up where this man would be a fine vehicle to spread true love,wisdom,joy & ultimate insight and freedom..wish you well
The way he builds you up with his words and effortlessly converts that to a meditation is .... and you hear the audience also going through the same journey through the talk. Amazing
Ram Dass, I can say without hesitation, and without mincing words, you helped me to love again. Thank you for being the light many still need in spite of your absence from this earth.
Yes it is good to thank him..but even better is to thank God for setting it all up where this good man would be a fine vehicle for the spreading of true love,wisdom,joy and the ultimate insight and freedom...wish you well
What an amazing talk! So deep and uplifting! My favorite parts: 21:00 - 23:00 26:00 - 28:00 28:00 - 30:30 something I'm currently experiencing, almost like I'm hearing myself 32:30 - honoring my incarnation, free THROUGH form, not Despite my form 33:30 - freedom of awareness, freedom from identification from thoughts 34:25 - how do you live it as a sweet play/dance 39:50 - 40:05 moment itself is enough 43:10 - fall in Love with Universe 51:05 - 55:15 - how do you keep open your heart in hell? how to go through suffering and what is suffering? 57:05 - experiencing Love in others 1:05:55 - judging others? lack of Self-Love 1:10:00 - feeling the Love of sharing the experience with Other Forms 1:15:10 - 1:22:00 - an amazing story about Love vs implying muscles/power
You have helped me laugh, cry, learn, grow! I am now 76 years old, may I meet you always in being in life as best I can !!! Thank you may I meet you in every lifetime
Ram i never met you in your incarnation but i feel you in my heart everytime im in moments of clarity. You bring such comfort to my being. Thank you for being you. I never met you yet i miss you. Im happy to have been able to hear your voice and story in my lifetime.
In and out AA 15 years ...LA Phx. Kansas City always for a women ...finally living alone content single loving myself recovery addict addicted to all my additive behaviors including alcohol ...Ram Dass has touched my soul even after his body is gone ..Spiritual aspect releasing the self living in my truth ...thank you Ram Dass... Emotional sobriety .. ✌️🙏🧘✨🌞
His book Be Here Now crossed my path in an ashram in Hermosillo, Sonora right at a point in my young life (1970) when it was needed. His talks since then have all crossed my paths at later points in my life - Dying Into Life was a great series, given I think out in the high desert in the Twenty-Nine Palms area where I lived for awhile. He's one of the speakers who seldom if ever gave any sort of "canned" performance - that is, they were/are all from his heart and from where he happened to be at the time on his evolutionary path. He had a long, rich life intertwined and filled with evolving souls. His insights and wisdom he shares can always be counted on to enrich. Ram Dass didn't deal with boilerplate. With his SEVA Foundation and Prison/Ashram Project and many other projects which I don't know about but which surely exist, he's done much good. A truly well-lived life. From first coming across his amazing creation Be Here Now, he's been a treasured gift in my own.
Thank you dear teacher, your words and voice are so comforting right now … i know you are still with us but these words provide so much guidance “All suffering is showing you - is where your mind is still clinging”.. thank you Ram Dass 🙌🏽💗
Watching this has helped me realize a lot of what baba Dass has experienced in his life I too have experienced or currently experiencing and it makes a breath of relief show up to know that I’m not alone and that I can work through what I have going on
Ram Dass Lecture - form and void - the awe full forms relate - it is perfect! Step back to see the way of things. Impersonal - tyranny, close heart to immense suffering - the quality of separateness. Our human hearts hurt! It is the perfection of form - my human heart cries in empathy. New awakening the curriculum of the awakening heart! Dropping the body is then suffering - everything is where we hate and love. What is - is conditional love - it is always perfect. When Ram Dass met his Guru - 12 people, in a little bus, he was cross. Laughter!
Naked are we born..no clothing to be had..it truely is the great journey to inside ourselves..that is so simple in nature..so Complex in humanity mind..forgetting the one true way..thought is feelings..heartfelt perfection..through the eyes of Love through universal oneness..we return to the naked child who knows no other but consciousness that is pure and simple..honest and sublime. Ram..my brother..blessings to you on this great awakening to that which we once came from and will return to infinitely..universally..and is without a doubt..compassionate action for the all.. Thank you for sharing and being the nakid beautiful soul you are..I wish you to place your own suit on..or better yet...ride nakid..free from bondage..on this great journey we call living as humans...as a perfected form. Adonay 💙🙏
Another way to look at it is that his gesture calmed the mother down enough to make the baby feel safe. It calmed her down because before she was worried about how people might respond to her baby crying loudly.
This whole lecture has been good for me today.. but at about 48 mins in.. ive been knocked over the head a few times with whoa. What an adventure it is to live in this moment with you.. much love. Pray for me.. lol
This man's Be Here Now offered all those brown pages, one after another, to an eighteen year old submerged in a clueless world. It cracked the cosmic egg that lent itself to a recognition. The topography of maps and signs lead home of course, of course...of course. The Big Picture isn't this sentence so much but for this vitality of simply breathing, as if one hadn't noticed but for yes of course.
I love this man! So kind ❤️ I believe in giving people hope, especially in these times we are in. Times are changing quickly now. If we all worked from the inside and connect to a higher source. Self love, giving with a full heart ❤️ in my culture we have the seven grandfather teachings 🤍💛❤️🖤 namaste ❤️☮️☯️
As much as Ram Das came to an “ever abiding state of love” after his stroke and illness, and he shared “beingness” with all in his presence. It is still so refreshing to listen and enjoy his wit and humor when his “intellect, loquaciousness and individual identity” were part of his earthly skill set.
I must have desired this message, and now...can I listen, stop trying, feel all sound, know all thoughts like vapor relieved from the kettle. Namaste, and Ram Dass, I Am...grateful, you eternally bless. Amen: so be it. Namaste; the Beloved in me recognizes the Beloved in You. I Am with you 100% today: now thats a moment...
Thank you so much the poem he read from Buddha monk, touch my heart 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤ thank so much for share your wisdom with us Ram Dass🙏🙏 I am so happy to live this time in universe so I have you and Eckhart Tolle and others who are lighting the path to awakening who are seeking for guidance, I can't thank you enough ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
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I sat in the living room at 6:15 am with my twin boys (4 1/2) and listed to Ram Dass on my headphones while they watched a show. They asked what I was listening to I said ‘just a guy talking’ … what is he talkin’ about one of them asked. ‘Life’ I said . He replied, ‘is that where we play?’ . Exactly!! I responded . I’m always impressed with the children and their uninhibited connection to the truth and the pureness of life.
Beautiful
Jai guru - love forever
@@darliswinterstein9293 still playing :)
Thank you
@@johnon1785😂❤🙏
That's incredibly sweet
At 37, in a rehab with no plan, a fellow housemate gave me the book “be here now”. I started
following Ram Dass and i became sober. I read that book before the Big Book of AA. Now, 76yrs
old, 39yrs sober, I have the need to listen to him even more. What a deal!
Cr Hill...yes, we need all these guys. I listen to Alan Watts. Congrats on your Strength and Recovery. Ram Das is new to me. Did I
try to read Be Here Be Now in early 70's? Stay Healthy and FIT, my friend.
Respect
I read Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous after tripping on mescaline, i believe...
Love you mate.
Isn’t it crazy? It’s not that the pain stops, it’s not EXACTLY that you appreciate the suffering, but it a like morphine, you just don’t care anymore, you’re focused.
I found myself yesterday greeting all life as "God" in drag. One was even a dragonfly. It's such a beautiful way to see things.
Years ago, you came to New Mexico and gave a lecture at UNM. Way up in the cheap seats, sat a guy who was at rock bottom, riding his mtn bike thru traffic hoping he'd die, finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, coming out, his less than useful Baha’i religious community he was once active in rejected him and threw him out for being gay, his family was less than any help, he was in the middle of a soap opera. But, after that evening, he KNEW…. no... I KNEW I would survive. The magic began to return to my life. There are no words enough for the gratitude I have for you!
And now, I am an old man, a grandfather, and as I first gazed into my grandson’s eyes… I whispered, “We are all loving awareness!” I wouldn't BE HERE NOW, if I hadn't gone to that lecture... Namaste dear, dear teacher!
What an amazing story! Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Beautifully composed.
Yes sir, that's very encouraging to know that words have such a power to literally save a life, thanks for sharing
An interesting path walked well good sir! I suddenly, in my mid fifties as time is measured, just discovered this facet of truth- somehow I missed Ram Dass entirely and I saw Timothy Leary speak in the early 90’s so I’m in the loop a little bit! But this is the power Ram Dass describes as being outside of space and time - his message still reaches me even though his physical form has passed- and I needed to have had my experiences prepare me for this work but I’m ready for it - there’s little I don’t understand if only by theory, I’ve already listened to hundreds of hours of Alan Watts Terrance McKenna and Bashar - heck I know who Korzibsky is and why Watts et al refer to him but how did I not see a random video for Ram Dass until now? Because now I am ready.
US War Veteran that has listened to Ram Dass and found out who he really is...........Helped so much in healing. Thank you Ram Dass and Maharaji for your teachings and spirit. Pranam
May you rest in the cosmic giggle heavens, Ram Dass 🌞🌿✨
His voice is so beautiful. It feels like home. Idk how to explain but there’s something about his voice ❤. And the message he carries of course.
I've fallen in love with Ram Dass.
Sharing a cosmic giggle even though my heart is hurting today.
hope you're hurting less these days but have been present in those moments either way.
Same. Much love.
🙏🙏🙏💔 love you you
Love to you
Hope you doing well
Rest peacefully my dearest friend, though the body is gone you are still here.
Yes
His BEING IS AMEN.SO BE IT. I AGREE!
What do you mean by "still" ?
Always
When did Ram Das leave this planet?
When life gets heavy, and I feel like I have no one to turn to, and my mind simply can’t settle… I turn to you. There is a fathers love in the sound of your voice, comfort in your words, and the feeling of being home by being in your presence. So thankful for you.
Alan Watts is another fantastic listen when life is feeling a bit... complicated. Much love friend!
I heard you and felt the tears coming up, just a minute before I was no knowing, just feeling and little confused, but when I read your sentence, I knew, I feel the same. Thank you Lisa and thank you Ram Dass (I know him for a very long time now), may you find solace (had to search the word, excuse my bad english, I´m from Southwest Germany) and compassion for yourself and others.
hello..honest good comment..yes, it is good being thankful for him,
even better is having the sincere desire for enlightenment and being
a devoted seeker..thankful to God for arranging all of it for you..wishing
you the best always
Yes!! Agree!!❤😊❤
You hit the proverbial 'nail on the head' with your words. Exactly what was in my mind and my heart. His love transcends his death and we can always 'come home' to his message.
Oh my me, this talk changed my life, been waiting to hear it again for years, thank you so much. Such a beautiful man
!!!
Likewise 😭💙
Stole that off bill hicks 🤷♀️
What substance was he on?
Listen to this Ram Dass again. It's time. 🙂
Suffering is just another opportunity to learn a lesson.
Yes. I had to re-learn this two days ago.
Always at the right time Ram Dass pops up like a joker with the right words to blow open my heart and let tears melt the cold spits inside…. Thank you 🙏❤️
Yep.
Always a spot where I'm crying.
Saturday night I was watching this. It was my first lecture of Ram Dass. I was crying during the last 30 mins. And he actually passed away the next day.
Fakinoris way to go!
Lol
Upstanding citizens to share universal LOVE through the beauty of this...is a moment..
Oh, no!! I didn't know that!!
He sounds perfectly healthy!! I'm so sorry.
He removed the tight shoe. Didn't go anywhere haha
What a beautiful medium for divine grace he is. He has left the body and is still able to move us to tears by reminding us of the pure loving awareness within us. Much love to all. x
I love his pure honesty about himself.
I love that to about him. It's so great when a teacher has come such a long way and still is like the rest of us in his humanity. So much gold in that talk. 😊🙏♥️
@Michael Kean "In 1994, in an interview with gay journalist Mark Thompson, later published in his book, "Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature," Mr Dass publicly came out, one of the first New Age celebrities to do so."
@Michael Kean Every exposition can't help but be an apology, a critique, but also a confession. ― C.G. Jung
@Michael Kean I'm really confused about how him not coming out until 1994 even really means anything? Like what's your point? Maybe he felt it would take away from the message he was trying to give to the world, especially considering it's not like the world was super accepting of gay folks? But furthermore, we don't follow ram Dass like he's Jesus. He's not a prophet, and he's not perfect. We listen to his words and ideas because they resonate and make sense, his advice and philosophy make sense. It's not him, it's his teachings.
@Michael Kean who else are you angry at? Are you angry at him for not fighting your battle? Cosmic laughter. You are angry at a facet of yourself. Forgive yourself for not coming out earlier. Forgive your culture for making coming out a battle you must wage. Forgive humanity for needing connection. Forgive love for wanting to exist outside of itself. Forgive existence for not staying in the infinite emptiness, but choosing to differentiate, so that you could learn once more what it is to choose love. But first, be angry. Hooray! Now, choose! 😘🥰❤
This was the most beautiful thing I've ever listened to
combo x2
plenty more, dont stop (give up) now...
56:21
“When you want to be high, everything that brings you down becomes a nuisance. When you want to be free, everything that brings you down shows you where you’re bring-able down-able. It’ll show you where your holy. And you’ll begin to hate it and love it at the same time”
I was just about to type this out and you've already done it. Thank you.
???
*where you’re holding
Yikes! LOL
♥️👍
I've known Ram Dass for less than one week, and I am taken. I am blown away by so many thoughts and feelings I have had my entire life (as he says you have all the "clues you need") and I misunderstood them for different things which I can reprocess (if you will) better knowing what I know now. I feel that such freedom has been offered to me by his amazing way of communication. Thank you for sharing.
I'm so glad others are here trying to grow n learn..this awakening path can be so lonely! You will live in my heart forever..
sticky and sweet It really can be, no one really warns you how lonely it is.
It is the egoistic mind that finds it lonely, suffering from itself, still wanting something else than what it is, in order to not see what it is.
Your never alone -raury
Brett wants to borrow Marshall's panda costume so to look as cute as Marshall. [Chuckle]Brett wants to borrow Marshall's panda costume so to look as cute as Marshall. [Chuckle]
There is no awakening path.
My heart has lightened today. Ram Dass is putting wings on a heavy heart today. Thank you RD💕🌷
We are all just walking eachother home
dying is absolutely safe your consciousness remains Sir!
tanon do DMT and come back to us. I felt the same way you did but I whole heartedly disagree with that now.
tanon lol okay dude, atheists are always talking about if they had proof that god exists they’d believe in a heart beat. DMT is your proof.
@tanon Bro you're the one being an asshole, let people have their views. One person stating there is no proof of god/afterlife so there is none is just as close minded and potentially ignorant as the one that says they experienced those things so they must be true. Stay open
@tanon alright that's fair on the reply, I mean there isn't a point if there is no chance of you changing your opinion. You seem set in stone. I don't have any conclusive evidence personally, but it is clear to me that we really have no idea, and the great mysteries have not been explained away by science. So what I am saying is you can't make the claim that god/afterlife don't exist. We are a fractal within a fractal, think of an ant crawling on the sidewalk, it does not even know what humans are. A human steps on an ant and it doesn't even have a chance to gain any conception of what happened before it's gone. We are likely in a similar relationship to things bigger than us, only just like the ant we have no idea what is bigger than us. I mean really bigger, not simply asteroids and planets. So big we can not make a little diagram of it, we have no conception.
I love all your many selves since the sixties! now with creaking bones , and falling out hair, I laughed so hard my poor weak bladder leaked! I can't remember much these days but your sharing and the old slang brought some of the truth back. You brought me to Neem Karoli Baba He recently left a rose on my windshield at a parking lot where no one new me! I begged for him to take this rock heart away, and now I can cry when I experience anything sweet or sour, especially at the cheap take out.I pray for you and your work to never end. Namaste Judith
you are wonderful, first he make me laugh/cry at the same time, than you did it too
He died and his work still hasn’t ended
i cant shake the feeling that the person who wrote this has passed on from thier human form.
This is so good. Sometimes I come back to Ram Dass and his talks reset me. IDK if that makes sense, but I get these seconds (they only last a couple of seconds) where I feel the way he is explaining , the high. Through meditation....I think that it may be moments of non thought, or relief or just acceptance. The acceptance, oneness....trying to get that back is like trying to catch a butterfly. These days, any form of relief seems pretty appropriate. Acceptance of the way things are today is such a challenge, but what is more challenging is having faith that we will all come out the other side peacefully and able to see it with our eyes while we are still alive.
My best analogy is it is like I am tuning an old car radio, turning the dial. You turn it all day and every now and then the transmission comes in clear and it is pure bliss!
This lecture made me cry, so many parts resonated with me that I was overwhelmed with emotion
Glad we’re on this journey together. 🙂
Whenever I remember in depression I go bqck to RamDass and it soooothes my soul and I realize the power and beauty of being nobody 🥰
Those tears of love that's your true nature being reflected from this lecture 😊 enjoy
My first time hearing this man. I don't really know what to think... I Know this, I have gone through so many different spiritual paths like this man. And I tell you a sense of humor to describe this torment... It really made me laugh. My spirit was in so much need of this. This helped me to laugh at myself with all the effort I put into spiritual growth. What an amazing sense of humor 😂
Yes!! He really does nail it all 🥰🙏💙. When you know. You KNOW!!
Ram Dass, you have helped guide me out of so much darkness. Sending love to everybody here. :)
I love the content, but Baba Ram Dass’ voice in this talk is quite soothing. I used to listen to this regularly when I was just diagnosed with a life threatening disease and didn’t know about my life expectancy. This video helped me enormously. Love
Admin here - loved your comment and appreciate your listening. Ram Dass is so amazing with how many he comforts throughout the whole world - including me!
Ram Das you are awesome.l was in trouble. I came from land of Rumi. But l learned from you what Rumi meant. I read it in persian but now l m clear. I'm ashamed to speak persian but yet l couldn't grasp it. You feel rumi before saying the translation . There are truly a few like you. Not many. What you teach is sacred.
How did Rumi get you into trouble?
If all leaders of the world thought like this, we would have peace.
My ❤ grew two sizes listening to this! Many blessings!
I have heard that we are entering or are in the Age of Aquarius whereby there will be collectively more transparency and lessening of ego. I guess as masses of individuals awaken, deception and injustice will become less tolerated. 🙏💚🌅
I am a clear case of “fake it until you make it.“ I’ve been listening to Ram Dass talk for years and slowly… It seeps in. I have found his words to be of great comfort; I have a clear path of attraction to follow now.
After years of listening to these beautiful words I finally found God in another person's eyes, I see myself. The other person is experiencing the same breath taking experience and he is not spiritual at all. His words make sense and I no longer need the trap.
I wept for you this morning Ram.
💗😊
"I am not going to run out of lovers" - this is Ram Dass ..
Thank you! Fabulous!
There is so much love here... in Ram Dass, in what he is speaking about/pointing to... I remember the first time I ever picked up one of his books, "The Only Dance There Is" and I KNEW that he KNEW. Then I made my way to Maui this past winter to attend "open your heart in paradise" retreat and as I sat in front of him, there was only him and I and a love that FILLED ME up beyond anything I'd ever experienced, my body could not even hold it... unforgettable experience.. Thank you RD
Jess Kramer me too 💙✌️
Jess Kramer You know you also know
Now give up bliss ;)
Yikes
Yes,it is good to thank him..but dont forget,even better
is to thank God for setting it all up where this good man
would be a trusted vehicle to spread true love,wisdom,
joy and the ultimate insight and freedom...wish you well
It is all as it must be, here now. Yes, and this too. Baba Ram Dass, our teacher and friend, may your life and love continue always.
We are all so thankful!
God is playing a perfect game that never gets old
objectivity...then you must still be "Unwoke."
Ooooooh you coming for me! :D I get you. ... “all meaning is man made.” I’m still synthesizing dharmic thought with everyday thingifying
@@dnbjedi I screenshot this comment. It made me laugh first, and then it made me nod in agreement. I resemble this comment on so many levels. Blessings, Peace, and Love 💛
God is the perfect cook he make us a meal that never grows old
I heard this lecture a year ago and it changed my entire life and gave words to my experiences, I pulled my life up from the gutter and see and share now many cosmic giggles with my loved ones. Thank you so much for uploading this. ♡
Coming here to remember your infinite presence and unconditional love. You will be missed.♥️ Jai Gurudev 🕉
Thank you for everything you gave to this world, RIP 🙏🏻
Yes it is good to thank him..even better is to thank God for
setting it all up where this man would be a fine vehicle to spread
true love,wisdom,joy & ultimate insight and freedom..wish you well
Man the aikido story brought a tear in my eye. So beautiful 💗
Me too 💓
Such a beautiful experience, absorbing these truths into my heart ❤️ THANKYOU Ram Dass, THANKYOU GOD ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The way he builds you up with his words and effortlessly converts that to a meditation is .... and you hear the audience also going through the same journey through the talk. Amazing
Ram Dass, I can say without hesitation, and without mincing words, you helped me to love again. Thank you for being the light many still need in spite of your absence from this earth.
Yes it is good to thank him..but even better is to thank God
for setting it all up where this good man would be a fine
vehicle for the spreading of true love,wisdom,joy and the
ultimate insight and freedom...wish you well
So much grace. So much love. I am eternally grateful to Him
Goodbye to the form of Ram Dass who has given so much - much love💖💖💖
Listening to Ram Dass is so calming. I have so much respect for him.
Yes… Another person who tends to have a similar effect on people is Alan Watts.
What an amazing talk! So deep and uplifting! My favorite parts:
21:00 - 23:00
26:00 - 28:00
28:00 - 30:30 something I'm currently experiencing, almost like I'm hearing myself
32:30 - honoring my incarnation, free THROUGH form, not Despite my form
33:30 - freedom of awareness, freedom from identification from thoughts
34:25 - how do you live it as a sweet play/dance
39:50 - 40:05 moment itself is enough
43:10 - fall in Love with Universe
51:05 - 55:15 - how do you keep open your heart in hell? how to go through suffering and what is suffering?
57:05 - experiencing Love in others
1:05:55 - judging others? lack of Self-Love
1:10:00 - feeling the Love of sharing the experience with Other Forms
1:15:10 - 1:22:00 - an amazing story about Love vs implying muscles/power
My favorite talk🤍
I love You Ram Dass.. I love You Maharaji.. RAM RAM
Rest easy brother.
You have helped me laugh, cry, learn, grow! I am now 76 years old, may I meet you always in being in life as best I can !!! Thank you may I meet you in every lifetime
Thank you my friend...for simply being you honest, kind loving
Ram i never met you in your incarnation but i feel you in my heart everytime im in moments of clarity. You bring such comfort to my being. Thank you for being you. I never met you yet i miss you. Im happy to have been able to hear your voice and story in my lifetime.
In and out AA 15 years ...LA Phx. Kansas City always for a women ...finally living alone content single loving myself recovery addict addicted to all my additive behaviors including alcohol ...Ram Dass has touched my soul even after his body is gone ..Spiritual aspect releasing the self living in my truth ...thank you Ram Dass... Emotional sobriety .. ✌️🙏🧘✨🌞
Thank you Ram Dass for your timeless truth
Thank you Ram Dass for your teachings and grace. Each time I listen to you I understand and feel love that little bit more. ❤️🙏
When we recognize each other through the dance, beyond the projection it's beautiful.
You are such a beautiful being. Love is what keeps everything together in this beautiful dance. Thank you Ram Dass. It's all perfect.
This is hilarious. And inspiring. I love his humility.
His book Be Here Now crossed my path in an ashram in Hermosillo, Sonora right at a point in my young life (1970) when it was needed. His talks since then have all crossed my paths at later points in my life - Dying Into Life was a great series, given I think out in the high desert in the Twenty-Nine Palms area where I lived for awhile. He's one of the speakers who seldom if ever gave any sort of "canned" performance - that is, they were/are all from his heart and from where he happened to be at the time on his evolutionary path. He had a long, rich life intertwined and filled with evolving souls. His insights and wisdom he shares can always be counted on to enrich. Ram Dass didn't deal with boilerplate. With his SEVA Foundation and Prison/Ashram Project and many other projects which I don't know about but which surely exist, he's done much good. A truly well-lived life. From first coming across his amazing creation Be Here Now, he's been a treasured gift in my own.
It’s great napping to this BRD lecture while sick. 🧘♀️
Your every thought is a trance...a spell...brought upon Awareness which is Peace Itself...Your Natural state.
A Yogananda and Ram Dass follower 50+ yrs now my Love with Christ is more than ever
Thank you dear teacher, your words and voice are so comforting right now … i know you are still with us but these words provide so much guidance “All suffering is showing you - is where your mind is still clinging”.. thank you Ram Dass 🙌🏽💗
I needed the so much
Amazing, how he brings everything together, seamlessly, smoothly adding all the ingredients. I’d so love to have those biscuits 🥰
Watching this has helped me realize a lot of what baba Dass has experienced in his life I too have experienced or currently experiencing and it makes a breath of relief show up to know that I’m not alone and that I can work through what I have going on
How were the biscuits? 😂
Thank you Ram Dass, travel well
So personal and honest. relatable. thank you. Much to appreciate here.
You will be missed....but your teachings remain and the very essence of you is with all of us, always.....xxxxxxxxxx
This is the first time truly listening to this guy. Huge fan of Watts and T Makkena
All Ram Dass's talks cut right through.
true that. His words cut deep.
Thank you for sharing this! I am listening for a third time and still in awe. This is one of the most profound talks I have ever heard.
What a talk...eternally grateful.
Much love back at you Ram Dass.
9:07 Thank you!!!!!!!! I lost myself into my own head with the onset of this new normal. hearing it out loud is so reassuring
There aint nothing normal about this new normal
Tell us more please?
Thank you Baba Ram Dass.
Thank you.
Unbelievably beautiful beyond words. Ram
Merry Christmas to all the beautiful souls who see this today
Merry Christmas ❤
Ram Dass Lecture - form and void - the awe full forms relate - it is perfect! Step back to see the way of things. Impersonal - tyranny, close heart to immense suffering - the quality of separateness. Our human hearts hurt! It is the perfection of form - my human heart cries in empathy. New awakening the curriculum of the awakening heart! Dropping the body is then suffering - everything is where we hate and love. What is - is conditional love - it is always perfect. When Ram Dass met his Guru - 12 people, in a little bus, he was cross. Laughter!
Naked are we born..no clothing to be had..it truely is the great journey to inside ourselves..that is so simple in nature..so Complex in humanity mind..forgetting the one true way..thought is feelings..heartfelt perfection..through the eyes of Love through universal oneness..we return to the naked child who knows no other but consciousness that is pure and simple..honest and sublime.
Ram..my brother..blessings to you on this great awakening to that which we once came from and will return to infinitely..universally..and is without a doubt..compassionate action for the all..
Thank you for sharing and being the nakid beautiful soul you are..I wish you to place your own suit on..or better yet...ride nakid..free from bondage..on this great journey we call living as humans...as a perfected form. Adonay 💙🙏
This entire talk has been so relatable , I love it
I’m so #glad I got to #meet you
so wonderful. thank you ram dass. LOVE.
Me with no knowledge learnt a lot from your lectures..thanks and nameste.. nameste nameste dear ramdass
At 1:15:40 Ram Dass speaks baby and and asks the baby to be quiet, and it does.
Dusty smerber wow!
I noticed that too 😅
Dude what the frick
Another way to look at it is that his gesture calmed the mother down enough to make the baby feel safe. It calmed her down because before she was worried about how people might respond to her baby crying loudly.
@@johnnynunez8040 exactly!
This whole lecture has been good for me today.. but at about 48 mins in.. ive been knocked over the head a few times with whoa. What an adventure it is to live in this moment with you.. much love. Pray for me.. lol
So profound, thank you.
This man's Be Here Now offered all those brown pages, one after another, to an eighteen year old submerged in a clueless world. It cracked the cosmic egg that lent itself to a recognition. The topography of maps and signs lead home of course, of course...of course. The Big Picture isn't this sentence so much but for this vitality of simply breathing, as if one hadn't noticed but for yes of course.
I love this man! So kind ❤️ I believe in giving people hope, especially in these times we are in. Times are changing quickly now. If we all worked from the inside and connect to a higher source. Self love, giving with a full heart ❤️ in my culture we have the seven grandfather teachings 🤍💛❤️🖤 namaste ❤️☮️☯️
RIP Ram Dass... we thank you for showing us how to be... now I hope to hear from you soon... peace!
Great words of wisdom !
Thank you Ram Dass
As much as Ram Das came to an “ever abiding state of love” after his stroke and illness, and he shared “beingness” with all in his presence. It is still so refreshing to listen and enjoy his wit and humor when his “intellect, loquaciousness and individual identity” were part of his earthly skill set.
I must have desired this message, and now...can I listen, stop trying, feel all sound, know all thoughts like vapor relieved from the kettle. Namaste, and Ram Dass, I Am...grateful, you eternally bless. Amen: so be it. Namaste; the Beloved in me recognizes the Beloved in You. I Am with you 100% today: now thats a moment...
him mocking the crying babies until the cries died out and continuing on, thus defusing the entire tense situation
Who else is listening to this after the 2024 election. I need some uplifting.
Getting ready for 2025 myself 🥹
Was buying Tesla stock all of 2023
Thanks
If there's anything I needed to hear I have taken myself way too seriously. I know we are one, that love is what matters
Thank you so much the poem he read from Buddha monk, touch my heart 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤ thank so much for share your wisdom with us Ram Dass🙏🙏 I am so happy to live this time in universe so I have you and Eckhart Tolle and others who are lighting the path to awakening who are seeking for guidance, I can't thank you enough ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏