Love & Compassion
How can we cultivate a compassionate heart to find freedom?
We all know our humanity too well. That is why we put the focus on recognizing the part of us that isn’t stuck in the human-ness. Not to deny our
Be Here Now Archives
Attachment
What is Karma Yoga and how can we take right action?
Karma Yoga is using your Karma as a way of coming into union with God. It’s using the stuff of…
“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
Love & Compassion
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 99 – Being Here Now: An Odyssey into the Essential Teachings of Ram Dass
Raghu introduces a new outstanding essential teachings course from Ram Dass entitled – Being Here Now: An Odyssey into the Essential Teachings of Ram Dass. Being Here Now: An Odyssey
Identity & Ego
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 85 – Dharmic Fire
Ram Dass’ precise enquiry into the real nature of purification and liberation – jumping into your own individuated Dharmic fire, not ignoring your weaknesses and neuroses. The bliss is
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 72: Puja Chat with Lama Surya Das Part 1
Surya Das joins Ram Dass for a puja side chat at Ram Dass’ home on Maui. Surya Das is a bhakta as well as an American Lama. They explore
The Guru
Krishna Das: Remarkable Encounters
If there is one day in a life that was the end of one thing and the beginning of another thing that was the day I met Ram Dass… Before
Relationships
Making it Sacred
Chopping wood and carrying water is an example of Karma Yoga…the yoga of daily life. The way to do it is this: Do what you do but dedicate the fruits
Relationships
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 55 – Sex & Spirituality
Sex and spirituality are cosmically intertwined. The more evolved you become spiritually, the less boundaries there are between my energy and THE energy. When your energy is used in a
Death & Dying
Burden of Doubt
I was carrying a burden of doubt when I returned to India to see Maharaj-ji in 1970. In America there was a boy who had been my student who had
Ram Dass Gives Maharaji the “Yogi Medicine”
Ram Dass reflects on conscientiously dosing Maharaji with LSD In 1967 when I first came to India, I brought with me a supply of LSD, hoping to find someone who
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 37 – Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley preceded Ram Dass and Tim Leary in explorations of the remote frontiers of the mind and unmapped areas of human consciousness. In Doors of Perception, Huxley studied the
The Origin of “Be Here Now”
The origin of Ram Dass’s Be Here Now is explored in this excerpt from The Divine Reality of Sri Baba Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj. With Maharaji’s permission, Ram Dass published
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 4 – Guru Found
Now, with his guru found, Ram Dass continues on with the most difficult part of his journey for truth – the journey within. Click here to read the transcription of this
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 2 – Journey to the East
Ram Dass talks about the trials he experienced before traveling to India after he was fired from Harvard and describes his journey to the East to find his Guru. We
Winning the Battle, Losing the War: A Spiritual Perspective
If you tune in to the BBC or read newspapers from around the world, you will realize that we in the U.S. are seen as an economically exploitive and not
Relationships
When Emotion Overtakes You
Question: Is there a special technique or method to help when we are overtaken by emotion? Ram Dass: The question was, are there spiritual techniques when you are overcome by
Death & Dying
An Environmental Awakening
Environmental Concern Question: I am the father of a three year old. It appears that, given the current trends, the planet will become uninhabitable before he can live out a
Service & Social Action
Compassionate Action and Suffering
Question: How do you visualize taking compassionate action into the field to those that appear to be creating suffering? Ram Dass: In doing social action, you are often dealing
The Guru
Babaji’s Grace
One morning, Babaji began talking about pujas and prayers and going on pilgrimages. “Prayer and worship should be done by everyone, every day, as the highest obligatory duty to God; visiting
Unconditional Love
So I started out on the New York thruway. I was just galumphing along in such a high state that I was hanging out with various forms of the Divine.
Identity & Ego
The I Behind the I – Ram Dass on Thought and Perspective
Now, when you get into this place where your thought has given up, you are then in a strange state which for us is very very scary. Because you’re not
Faith
Love with no Object
Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than this is not known to me.
Times of India: Being with Neem Karoli Maharaj-ji
reprinted courtesy of Times of India, Oct 14, 2011, 12.00AM IST by Ram Dass We were sitting in the courtyard of the little temple in the Himalayan foothills, around Maharaj-ji,
Consciousness & Psychedelics
They Are Not the Buddha
How do we heal our emotional bodies and how do you see the role of psychotherapy in all this? As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the different
Identity & Ego
A Tree Isn’t Frightened
Image Credit: Lydia Eloff Fear is the result of getting caught in the middle. Buddha says that it is the result of ignorance. And the ignorance is that when you
Relationships
Love is the Most Powerful Medicine
In relationships, when the other person doesn’t fit into your model of how heaven would be, you don’t have to…
Relationships
When I Look at Relationships
Question: How can we maintain our own integrity or identity in a relationship, especially a close one, without compromising the integrity of others? Ram Dass: Which you do you want
Relationships
Who Isn’t Uncle Henry?
You look and you see another person, and you recognize them, and you feel like they are us. Every level below that, you see them as ‘them’ or I see
The Guru
The Way of the Guru, Part 2
Read Part 1 I could see that my guru had this power, this peace, this wisdom, this love, but it was hard for me to see it in myself. My
The Guru
The Way of the Guru, Part 1
When I first came back to America from India in 1967 I didn’t really talk much about the guru because it seemed so inappropriate for the west. For one thing,
I Am Loving Awareness
I Am Loving Awareness View the GAIAM Life Article HERE “I have a practice in which I say to myself, I am loving awareness.” To begin, I focus my attention in
Meditation & Mindfulness
Ram Dass Guided Meditation Practice
Guided Meditation with Ram Dass Bring your awareness to your breath. Just notice the breath. Either notice it going in and out of your nose or notice in rising and
Consciousness & Psychedelics
It’s Just a Matter of Timing
Many years ago I spent time with a Tibetan teacher, Trungpa Rinpoche. In an interview he suggested a meditation technique in which one expands one’s awareness outward. He suggested we
Death & Dying
Dying is Absolutely Safe – Awareness Beyond Death
People ask, “Do you believe that there is continuity after death?” And I say, “I don’t believe it. It just…