Attachment
How do we get trapped within psychedelic experiences?
Ram Dass explores the potential trap of high experiences. “Paradise is the prison of the sage as the world is the prisoner of the believer.” – Yahja b. Mu’adh al-Razi
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Faith
How do you reconcile faith and reason?
Faith and the Rational Mind We have come out of a period on the evolutionary journey of us as beings, where man evolved these great frontal lobes and this capacity
Identity & Ego
Playing with the Ego and Higher Consciousness
The way I would work with the term ego, is that it’s a structure of mind that organizes the universe particularly around the relationships of separateness. It’s in the domain
Identity & Ego
Who do You Think You Are?
Who you think you are is not who you really are at all. I’ve used an example many times in lectures, but it’s such a vivid one that it’s useful
Identity & Ego
How do You Let Go of Drama?
How do you let go of drama? Don’t treat yourself so gingerly; you can let go of stuff. Sometimes it takes three breaths instead of two to do it,
Meditation & Mindfulness
Making a Choice in Living Situations
One can look at one’s living situation as a reflection of the values you are optimizing or maximizing. And it’s important that you do that. A lot of people just end
Identity & Ego
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 86 – Reality of Who We Are
It takes but a flick of a look in a person’s eyes to see who it is you are to them. Which level of reality you exist upon. A
Identity & Ego
Dealing with Excess Baggage
A human life is a series of experiences. When we have little awareness of our predicament, experiences feed our attachments and condition our desire for more experiences. Our perspective changes
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Relationship to the Act
“One does nothing and nothing is left undone.” This mystical injunction points to one of the key components of the path of action: nonidentification with being the actor. I had
Identity & Ego
Entering the Stream
Beings who have understood how it all is, who have realized their identity with the ātman, are stream enterers; they have tasted the flow of the nectar of liberation. They
Service & Social Action
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 45: Conspiracy of Consciousness Pt. 2
How do we bring spirituality and business together? How do we bring sustainability and justice into business? We must fulfill our roles to use them as vehicles to become free. Ram Dass