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Initially most people choose to meditate out of curiosity or to relieve psychological pain, increase pleasure, or enhance power. The goal of all these motives is to strengthen the ego. For as the ego gets more comfortable, happy, and powerful, its prison walls thicken. The ego’s motives do not allow examination of the ego itself,...
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In this talk from 1983, Ram Dass reflects on the journey into innocence and uninhibited loving compassion that we all share. Show Notes The Eye of the Dolphin Ram Dass shares the story of a diver whose life was transformed by another being’s unbridled loving compassion. A Journey Into Innocence (18:00) What are the parallels...
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This path takes you out of your mind and into your heart. Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You’re being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your child, or your most intimate lover—anyone. This...
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Well, it happened like this… I’m on the plane in India, and I am with a friend who wants to go up to the mountains to see his Hindu Guru. I don’t want to go, but he wants to use the car that I’m taking care of for a friend, so I’m trapped, and I’m...
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Awareness is not aware of itself. It’s not self-conscious, it’s just awareness. In that sense, the entire universe is awareness. It is not self-consciously aware; it’s just awareness, and that’s when if you want to understand how a spiritual master with Siddhis [powers] knows the universe, they know the universe from inside itself. Here’s a...
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