What if we could view death as just another stage of life?
My mother died in very early February of 1967, and I was at her hospital bedside. I had been sitting there quietly while she was sort of resting, I was
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How do you balance helping others with helping yourself?
Helping We all have these As the World Turns kind of dramas and everybody thinks it’s real, so part of the fun is to keep reminding yourself that it’s a bubble. It’s
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How to break the chain of reactivity with those around us?
The Chain of Reactivity As one cultivates more and more of the levels of the strudel, then one sees the whole level of interpersonal relationships as just one level. When
“R.D. says we are not our bodies. Amen.”
For some years in California, a young man came to my lectures in a bed, brought in a bed. He was a quadriplegic. He could not speak. He was about
Ram Dass Discusses the Process of Dying
Ram Dass discusses the process of dying and what it means to the journey of awakening. He tells stories of being with the dying and they taught him about living.
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Freedom from Attachment
Ram Dass talks about how we use techniques that free us from identifying ourselves as our thoughts. As we extricate ourselves from these attachments, it’s as if we are going
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Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 109 – The Five Invitations with Frank Ostaseski, Roshi Joan Halifax and Raghu Markus
Ram Dass is joined by Roshi Joan Halifax, Raghu Markus and the author of “The Five Invitations,” Frank Ostaseski, to talk about his book and how making friends with death
Frank Ostaseski on Understanding Death in Order to Live More Fully
Life and death are a package deal. You cannot pull them apart. In Japanese Zen, the term shoji translates as “birth-death.” There is no separation between life and death other
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Healing Quotes
Healing quotes and inspirational quotes can be helpful ways of coping with a range of life experiences. People can pull from a well of resources available online. There is no