Be sure to check out Being Here Now, a new audio series from Ram Dass. Being Here Now is an eight-week audio course with a companion guide written by Rameshwar Das. Meditating on the Soul (40:20) – Ram Dass leads a meditation on the soul. Ram Dass discusses the role of gratitude in his own life. This experience taught Mingyur to be grateful for something each day that he wakes up. Near Death (32:05) – Raghu shares the story of Mingyur Rinpoche’s near death experience. Ram Dass gets down to the heart, where his soul tells him the truth that fear tries to hide. Faith no? Fear…” The mirror of the guru was so strong that Raghu and Ram Dass feared that they were unworthy of being in the presence of Maharajji.įear is the Ego (26:20) – How does Ram Dass deal with fear and faith? Fear is the ego. We always want one more story from Dada, for his faith never flickers. Maharajji, the Mirror (22:15) – “Faith? No fear. He is our elder brother in Maharajjis spiritual family. We must separate ourselves from our mind trying to bullshit us. Open Through Faith (18:10) – How do we remain spiritually open while being pragmatic and not bullshitting ourselves? Ram Dass thinks it all comes down to faith. Everpresent, Maharajji opens himself up on that plane of imagination. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. When Ram Dass wants to speak to his guru, Maharajji can alway be found there in his imagination. When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. The Guru Within (10:35) – The spiritual world is created by imagination. Generally, we are taught that imagination is nothing but fantasy and has no place in our real world, yet our imagination is always operating, opening up a limitless world of possibilities. 'From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you. 'My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that', he says. Imagination (07:20) – Raghu reads a passage about imagination, which has been a subject Ram Dass has spoken on for decades. At 60 years of age, Ram Dass began exploring Judaism seriously for the first time. How can we learn to trust our intuition without fooling ourselves? Where does gratitude come from? Explore these questions and more on this episode of Here and Now. Ram Dass brings insight to several important questions. Because, you see, the thing about a method is that, for a method to work, it has.
At the age of 66, Ram Dass suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed on the right. deep enough in their faith yet to where they havent come out the other end. Ram Dass teaches us to see through our own delusions that mislead us and weigh us down with fear. Richard Alpert, known to many as Ram Dass, embodied the role of spiritual seeker. On this special 100th episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass and Raghu Markus talk about imagination, faith, and gratitude.
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