Ram Dass talks about finding a balance between emptiness and compassion, then answers questions from the audience, including on how to deal with fear around current events. This episode of
Ram Dass explores facing fears of the future as we age, opening up to the mystery of death, and seeing dying as a window of opportunity for awakening. This episode
Speaking across the decades from the 1970s to the 2010s, Ram Dass shares his wisdom on the importance of resting in awareness. This episode of Here and Now is a
In this recording from a 1992 retreat, Ram Dass talks about dealing with change, using the stuff of your daily life to get free, and how your karma defines your
In this exploration of the fear of suffering as we get older, Ram Dass talks about approaching the mystery of aging and death in the same adventurous manner as his
In this special bonus episode, Ram Dass offers his viewpoint on how we can dance in the ocean of change as the structure of our culture shapeshifts before our very
In this Q&A session from 1993, Ram Dass talks about his passions, the balance of separateness and unity, dealing with turmoil, the creative force of the universe, and more. This
In this Q&A session from 1994, Ram Dass talks about the importance of honoring lineage, the potential of the rave scene, how to bring a heart quality to academia, and
In this half-hour guided meditation, Ram Dass uses concentration and mindfulness techniques to help us sit on the river bank of the mind and watch the thoughts, sensations, and feelings
In this Q&A session from 1990, Ram Dass talks about service, karma, alcoholism, the concept of eternity, cultivating the intuitive heart, experiencing the feeling of coming home, and more.
In this classic talk, Ram Dass explores resting in ‘I am,’ a place where we can see the perfection of all things, including suffering, and how we can balance that
Who are you? What are you doing here? In this classic talk about identity and attachment, Ram Dass asks where you could possibly stand in a world filled with pain
In this exploration of suffering, death, and love, Ram Dass talks about resting in change and handling the balance and tension of inhabiting multiple planes of reality simultaneously. “That part
In this essential talk, Ram Dass leans on the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, Ramana Maharshi, and Groucho Marx to explore identity, change, and how incarnation is the blueprint
Ram Dass explores the art of how to bring the past into the present as we age, leads a powerful exercise centered around the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and talks
In this recording from 1995, Ram Dass explores the nature of time, especially as it relates to aging, and shares how his guru helped him see that being in the
Ram Dass answers a wide range of questions on topics such as free will, working with fear, and falling in love – plus, he leads a Metta meditation to help
Ram Dass explores how to find the balance between emptiness and compassion in the face of immense suffering and tap into the truth of your deepest being to hear your
In this Q&A session from 1993, Ram Dass explores an array of topics, including psychedelics as a method, assisted suicide, dealing with suffering, and awareness without identification. “The term attachment
In this potent recording from 1994, Ram Dass talks about the nature of suffering and how we can escape the prison of separateness created by our cultural infatuation with individualism.
In the Q&A session from the 1990s, Ram Dass takes on questions about eating animals and inner work, psychedelics, burnout in service, and dealing with the death of a child.
In this Q&A session from 1990, Ram Dass responds to questions about immortality, how to deal with evil, population growth, and how to play the game impeccably. The Way Things
In this dharma talk from the 1990s, Ram Dass explores the nature of the spiritual journey, getting free with the practice of karma yoga, and formulas for liberation. The Nature
In this dharma talk from the 1990s, Ram Dass speaks about shifting contexts to shift consciousness, cultivating the Witness to curb our reactivity and entering the state known as choiceless
In this recording from 1991, Ram Dass explores the components of meditation and how the thinking mind keeps trapping awareness – ending with a guided meditation focused on the breath.
Sending out good vibes on the radio waves once again, Ram Dass takes calls from a live radio audience and answers questions about how he keeps his head straight, the
In this recording from 1994, Ram Dass joins Duncan Campell on the radio show “Connections” for a conversation about truth, cultural change, and what happens when acid meets beer. Truth
In this talk from 1993, Ram Dass explores how spiritual practice helps us escape the prison of our egos, then leads a 20-minute practice with the breath as the primary
Ram Dass is back with another session of Talk Radio From the Heart to sing us the Heart Song, plus answer questions about abortion, attachment to a group identity, and
Ram Dass is back with more Talk Radio From the Heart, answering questions about grief, how love transcends death, bringing spirituality into daily life, Right Livelihood, and more. Love Transcends
In this 1996 broadcast from KPFK Los Angeles, Ram Dass takes over Talk Radio From the Heart and answers questions about romantic relationships, racism, finding a guru, and more.
In the conclusion of this Ram Dass Q&A from 1992, he answers questions and offers wisdom about how life is our practice, how to deal with the anxiety of being
In this Q&A session from 1992, Ram Dass answers questions about synchronicity, purification, fear, compassion, how his guru showed him the possibility of unconditional love, and more. Seeing Synchronicities
Offering spiritual perspective on the paradox of life, Ram Dass illuminates how we can get free by embracing our incarnation. In this dharma talk stemming from Evanston, IL on March
In this lively Q&A session filled with laughter and love, Ram Dass reflects on psychedelic lessons, what cyberspace means for consciousness and so much more. Psychedelic Lessons This Q&A
In this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass explores our obsession with personality, the possibilities of a compassionate society, and how we can all become tools of balance.
Ram Dass explores how spiritual practice helps us find a home in the domain of spirit and root ourselves in presence, even amidst all the suffering and pain of this
In this 1992 session, Ram Dass explores patriarchy and the Ramayana, dharmic roles, planes of consciousness, and being a good adversary. Part of a question and answer session from 1992,
Ram Dass gave the following lecture on July 21st, 1993 in Rhinebeck, New York. We chose to share these teachings because although they were given almost thirty years ago, they
In this dharma talk from 1993, Ram Dass looks at how each of us can get stuck in our transition between the fear-driven social institutions that we were born into
In this continuing talk from 1992, Ram Dass explores questions about how we can best navigate anger and our incarnation here on Earth. Show Notes Who is Running Who? How
In this talk from 1992, Ram Dass looks at how quieting the mind allows us to accept life how it is, including all of the love, suffering, joy, and discomfort
In this talk from 1993, Ram Dass reflects on our ever-evolving cultural myths and how we can shift our awareness beyond these narratives. Show Notes Our Myths (Opening) Ram Dass
In this talk from 1995, Ram Dass looks at how we can fully inhabit our roles with joy and emptiness instead of taking ourselves so seriously. Resources from this episode:
In this talk from 1994, Ram Dass investigates the many roots of suffering, and how our perception shapes our experience of that suffering. Show Notes The Way We Deal (Opening)
In this 1993 talk from the Omega Institute, Ram Dass explores methods of embracing the mystery of life through selflessness and service. Show Notes Beyond the Safe Space (Opening) –
In this talk from 1991, Ram Dass discusses encountering fear and working through difficult moments along the journey of awakening. Show Notes Honoring Our Fear (Opening) – There is
Live Awake; this is a special talk given at the 1994 Psychedelics Symposium at Chapman College that follows Ram Dass’ history and thoughts surrounding psychedelics. Psychedelics have guided the course
In this talk from 1995, Ram Dass discusses spiritual practices and poses the question, “Why do we practice?” Show Notes “I Ought to Do…” (Opening) – We all should meditate
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
Using dualism to step into non-dualism, through the Heart, is the essence of the Bhakti path. Ram Dass explains his personal journey in attempting to be an instrument of the
What we offer one another as human beings is an environment. And in spending so much time in relationships, it only makes sense that we try to use them as
Silence is very much part of my universe now, an awareness of silence. My universe involves using silence and not waiting for something to happen, because the silence is what’s happening,
We mask our suffering in our culture, so we must look beyond the masks we wear. We have learned to show a lack of vulnerability. Our vulnerability is the gateway
Ram Dass explores where “the gift of expanding consciousness” is taking us in terms of the way we actually lead our lives. He explains what it might look like, in
We live in the midst of great change – whether social dislocations or the aging of our bodies – which confront our egos with fear. How we work with our
With an introduction from Jack Kornfield, for the keynote address to the International Transpersonal Association conference, Ram Dass reflects on the predicament our technology has created. He suggests steps we
Ram Dass was the guest speaker at a joyful Sunday morning service held at the First Church of Religious Science. He talked about aging, suffering, and silence, and about the
We suffer when there is an imbalance between our inner truth and the way we live our lives. Responding to a comment by one of the participants at the 1993
Ram Dass invites us to try on a new perspective for our lives – to take the Soul’s view of our incarnation as a journey into form and a reawakening
We live in the midst of great change – whether social dislocations or the aging of our bodies – which confront our egos with fear. How we work with our
Recorded at the Conscious Aging conference sponsored by the Omega Institute in 1992 on the nature of change and facing death with Ram Dass. This conscious aging conference was the
Ram Dass interviews Thich Nhat Hanh at State of the World forum. Thich Nhat Hanh talks about using mindfulness to take tender loving care of our anger. Being aware and
(Breitenbush, August 1994) When you regard disturbing emotions as emptiness, that becomes your path – on the other hand, if you indulge in disturbing emotions, it’s like eating a poisonous
In this excerpt from The Only Dance There Is, Ram Dass writes about increasing our consciousness and working on ourselves through social action. Now does working on yourself have anything
Role Models During the fall of 1995, I spent four days at the Gorbachev World Forum, where I met some remarkable elder role models who were taking part in that
A funny thing about me is that I never get to talking about the body. I write beautiful notes on it, but I never talk about it because I don’t
One of the systems we’re part of, of course, is the political system. We may wish we weren’t part of it often, but we are. And all of those people
