During the summer of 1973 I was staying at my father’s farm in New Hampshire, and was there in September when the telegram arrived. My father and my stepmother, looking rather concerned, met me when I returned from shopping at the village. Dad said, “This telegram just came from India, don’t understand it, but I [...]
One day Baba arrived with some devotees at the house of Prem Lal, the manager of Titagarh Paper Mills in Lucknow. Prem Lal had engaged a new servant to clean in the kitchen who was keen to have Baba’s darshan. After finishing his work, he sat on the doorstep of the room in which Baba [...]
Issues of sexuality, gender, and spirituality have come out of the closet since the Sixties. Because of midwives and hospices, even birth and death are out as well. Aging remains one of our culture’s last taboos. Judging from how the old are represented (or rather, not represented) by the media, it’s fair to say we [...]
“When you are with someone you love very much, you can talk and it is pleasant, but the reality is not in the conversation. It is simply in being together. Meditation is the highest form of prayer. In it you are so close to God that you don’t need to say a thing It’s just [...]
Ram Dass’ audio programs Who You Are (Parts 1 and 2) are now available for streaming and download. Each part is roughly thirty minutes long, and explores why we’re here on earth, using TV channels as metaphors to get to the root of our existence and to understand the different planes of consciousness. Download each part [...]
Raghu and David welcome Ram Dass and his co-author Rameshwar Das, who just finished their new book, Polishing the Mirror. Ram Dass talks about the moment that his life changed when he met his Guru and how that “moment” became viral with so many people. Also revealing discussion around honesty and being at the edge [...]
December 4 – 9, 2013 at the Napili Kai Beach Resort. Join Ram Dass & Krishna Das with Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, Mirabai Bush, Lei’ohu Ryder, Maydeen Iao and Friends for this year’s epic retreat.
Join Ram Dass & Roshi Joan Halifax in an Online Retreat From May 3-5, join us for a special online retreat, streamed from the Lumeria Center on Maui. Experience the essence of unconditional love and awareness through dharma talks, meditations and contemplations with Ram Dass and Roshi Joan Halifax – two hours of essential teachings will be [...]
The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.” More than an artifact, it is both a riveting memoir of Watts’s personal experiments and a profound [...]
“When something is bothering you-a person is bugging you, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is bothering you-you must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our mind is the only means through which we’ll actually begin to feel happy and contented with the world that we live [...]
Watch Ram Dass discuss individual differences & working against a negative core ego concept. Amazing archival footage from the 1970′s. For a one-time donation, please use the donation form below: To set up a recurring monthly donation, please use the donation form below: LSRF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax deductible as [...]
When I was growing up, I was to be somebody, because we were all in “somebody” training in those days. So I became special, because my parents and educators wanted me to be, and they trained you how to do that. It’s called “ego structure” – inside, it felt lousy. It felt like I should [...]
