Sacred in the Everyday - Ram Dass Full Lecture
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- A discussion about "somebodyness", and the urge to break out of our conditioned bonds of the thinking mind and into the spacious realm of compassion and being.
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Photos: Mary Bloom, Tom Asher
Recorded in 1987.
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I sat in the living room at 6:15 am with my twin boys (4 1/2) and listed to Ram Dass on my headphones while they watched a show. They asked what I was listening to I said ‘just a guy talking’ … what is he talkin’ about one of them asked. ‘Life’ I said . He replied, ‘is that where we play?’ . Exactly!! I responded . I’m always impressed with the children and their uninhibited connection to the truth and the pureness of life.
Beautiful
Jai guru - love forever
@@darliswinterstein9293 still playing :)
Thank you
@@johnon1785😂❤🙏
That's incredibly sweet
At 37, in a rehab with no plan, a fellow housemate gave me the book “be here now”. I started
following Ram Dass and i became sober. I read that book before the Big Book of AA. Now, 76yrs
old, 39yrs sober, I have the need to listen to him even more. What a deal!
Cr Hill...yes, we need all these guys. I listen to Alan Watts. Congrats on your Strength and Recovery. Ram Das is new to me. Did I
try to read Be Here Be Now in early 70's? Stay Healthy and FIT, my friend.
Respect
I read Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous after tripping on mescaline, i believe...
Love you mate.
Isn’t it crazy? It’s not that the pain stops, it’s not EXACTLY that you appreciate the suffering, but it a like morphine, you just don’t care anymore, you’re focused.
Who else is listening to this after the 2024 election. I need some uplifting.
Getting ready for 2025 myself 🥹
Was buying Tesla stock all of 2023
Years ago, you came to New Mexico and gave a lecture at UNM. Way up in the cheap seats, sat a guy who was at rock bottom, riding his mtn bike thru traffic hoping he'd die, finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, coming out, his less than useful Baha’i religious community he was once active in rejected him and threw him out for being gay, his family was less than any help, he was in the middle of a soap opera. But, after that evening, he KNEW…. no... I KNEW I would survive. The magic began to return to my life. There are no words enough for the gratitude I have for you!
And now, I am an old man, a grandfather, and as I first gazed into my grandson’s eyes… I whispered, “We are all loving awareness!” I wouldn't BE HERE NOW, if I hadn't gone to that lecture... Namaste dear, dear teacher!
What an amazing story! Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Beautifully composed.
Yes sir, that's very encouraging to know that words have such a power to literally save a life, thanks for sharing
An interesting path walked well good sir! I suddenly, in my mid fifties as time is measured, just discovered this facet of truth- somehow I missed Ram Dass entirely and I saw Timothy Leary speak in the early 90’s so I’m in the loop a little bit! But this is the power Ram Dass describes as being outside of space and time - his message still reaches me even though his physical form has passed- and I needed to have had my experiences prepare me for this work but I’m ready for it - there’s little I don’t understand if only by theory, I’ve already listened to hundreds of hours of Alan Watts Terrance McKenna and Bashar - heck I know who Korzibsky is and why Watts et al refer to him but how did I not see a random video for Ram Dass until now? Because now I am ready.
I found myself yesterday greeting all life as "God" in drag. One was even a dragonfly. It's such a beautiful way to see things.
Sharing a cosmic giggle even though my heart is hurting today.
hope you're hurting less these days but have been present in those moments either way.
Same. Much love.
🙏🙏🙏💔 love you you
Love to you
Hope you doing well
I've fallen in love with Ram Dass.
Rest peacefully my dearest friend, though the body is gone you are still here.
Yes
His BEING IS AMEN.SO BE IT. I AGREE!
What do you mean by "still" ?
Always
When did Ram Das leave this planet?
US War Veteran that has listened to Ram Dass and found out who he really is...........Helped so much in healing. Thank you Ram Dass and Maharaji for your teachings and spirit. Pranam
When life gets heavy, and I feel like I have no one to turn to, and my mind simply can’t settle… I turn to you. There is a fathers love in the sound of your voice, comfort in your words, and the feeling of being home by being in your presence. So thankful for you.
Alan Watts is another fantastic listen when life is feeling a bit... complicated. Much love friend!
I heard you and felt the tears coming up, just a minute before I was no knowing, just feeling and little confused, but when I read your sentence, I knew, I feel the same. Thank you Lisa and thank you Ram Dass (I know him for a very long time now), may you find solace (had to search the word, excuse my bad english, I´m from Southwest Germany) and compassion for yourself and others.
hello..honest good comment..yes, it is good being thankful for him,
even better is having the sincere desire for enlightenment and being
a devoted seeker..thankful to God for arranging all of it for you..wishing
you the best always
Yes!! Agree!!❤😊❤
You hit the proverbial 'nail on the head' with your words. Exactly what was in my mind and my heart. His love transcends his death and we can always 'come home' to his message.
Saturday night I was watching this. It was my first lecture of Ram Dass. I was crying during the last 30 mins. And he actually passed away the next day.
Fakinoris way to go!
Lol
Upstanding citizens to share universal LOVE through the beauty of this...is a moment..
Oh, no!! I didn't know that!!
He sounds perfectly healthy!! I'm so sorry.
He removed the tight shoe. Didn't go anywhere haha
His voice is so beautiful. It feels like home. Idk how to explain but there’s something about his voice ❤. And the message he carries of course.
We are all just walking eachother home
I'm so glad others are here trying to grow n learn..this awakening path can be so lonely! You will live in my heart forever..
sticky and sweet It really can be, no one really warns you how lonely it is.
It is the egoistic mind that finds it lonely, suffering from itself, still wanting something else than what it is, in order to not see what it is.
Your never alone -raury
Brett wants to borrow Marshall's panda costume so to look as cute as Marshall. [Chuckle]Brett wants to borrow Marshall's panda costume so to look as cute as Marshall. [Chuckle]
There is no awakening path.
May you rest in the cosmic giggle heavens, Ram Dass 🌞🌿✨
It’s great napping to this BRD lecture while sick. 🧘♀️
56:21
“When you want to be high, everything that brings you down becomes a nuisance. When you want to be free, everything that brings you down shows you where you’re bring-able down-able. It’ll show you where your holy. And you’ll begin to hate it and love it at the same time”
I was just about to type this out and you've already done it. Thank you.
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*where you’re holding
Yikes! LOL
♥️👍
I love the content, but Baba Ram Dass’ voice in this talk is quite soothing. I used to listen to this regularly when I was just diagnosed with a life threatening disease and didn’t know about my life expectancy. This video helped me enormously. Love
Admin here - loved your comment and appreciate your listening. Ram Dass is so amazing with how many he comforts throughout the whole world - including me!
dying is absolutely safe your consciousness remains Sir!
tanon do DMT and come back to us. I felt the same way you did but I whole heartedly disagree with that now.
tanon lol okay dude, atheists are always talking about if they had proof that god exists they’d believe in a heart beat. DMT is your proof.
@tanon Bro you're the one being an asshole, let people have their views. One person stating there is no proof of god/afterlife so there is none is just as close minded and potentially ignorant as the one that says they experienced those things so they must be true. Stay open
@tanon alright that's fair on the reply, I mean there isn't a point if there is no chance of you changing your opinion. You seem set in stone. I don't have any conclusive evidence personally, but it is clear to me that we really have no idea, and the great mysteries have not been explained away by science. So what I am saying is you can't make the claim that god/afterlife don't exist. We are a fractal within a fractal, think of an ant crawling on the sidewalk, it does not even know what humans are. A human steps on an ant and it doesn't even have a chance to gain any conception of what happened before it's gone. We are likely in a similar relationship to things bigger than us, only just like the ant we have no idea what is bigger than us. I mean really bigger, not simply asteroids and planets. So big we can not make a little diagram of it, we have no conception.
I needed the so much
Suffering is just another opportunity to learn a lesson.
Yes. I had to re-learn this two days ago.
Oh my me, this talk changed my life, been waiting to hear it again for years, thank you so much. Such a beautiful man
!!!
Likewise 😭💙
Stole that off bill hicks 🤷♀️
What substance was he on?
Listen to this Ram Dass again. It's time. 🙂
I love all your many selves since the sixties! now with creaking bones , and falling out hair, I laughed so hard my poor weak bladder leaked! I can't remember much these days but your sharing and the old slang brought some of the truth back. You brought me to Neem Karoli Baba He recently left a rose on my windshield at a parking lot where no one new me! I begged for him to take this rock heart away, and now I can cry when I experience anything sweet or sour, especially at the cheap take out.I pray for you and your work to never end. Namaste Judith
you are wonderful, first he make me laugh/cry at the same time, than you did it too
He died and his work still hasn’t ended
i cant shake the feeling that the person who wrote this has passed on from thier human form.
Miss you my friend
We at the channel miss him too! We feel his love everywhere!
This was the most beautiful thing I've ever listened to
combo x2
plenty more, dont stop (give up) now...
I feel like.. More and more
We eather get caught in ego
OR WE GET CAUGHT IN SOUL
What ram dass describes for me is.. He was getting lost in soul consciousness
And both suck! Cause both are one sided, if only one dominantes our life!
I show myself here with my words & wisdom.
❤, Amabel
What a beautiful medium for divine grace he is. He has left the body and is still able to move us to tears by reminding us of the pure loving awareness within us. Much love to all. x
My first time hearing this man. I don't really know what to think... I Know this, I have gone through so many different spiritual paths like this man. And I tell you a sense of humor to describe this torment... It really made me laugh. My spirit was in so much need of this. This helped me to laugh at myself with all the effort I put into spiritual growth. What an amazing sense of humor 😂
Yes!! He really does nail it all 🥰🙏💙. When you know. You KNOW!!
There is so much love here... in Ram Dass, in what he is speaking about/pointing to... I remember the first time I ever picked up one of his books, "The Only Dance There Is" and I KNEW that he KNEW. Then I made my way to Maui this past winter to attend "open your heart in paradise" retreat and as I sat in front of him, there was only him and I and a love that FILLED ME up beyond anything I'd ever experienced, my body could not even hold it... unforgettable experience.. Thank you RD
Jess Kramer me too 💙✌️
Jess Kramer You know you also know
Now give up bliss ;)
Yikes
Yes,it is good to thank him..but dont forget,even better
is to thank God for setting it all up where this good man
would be a trusted vehicle to spread true love,wisdom,
joy and the ultimate insight and freedom...wish you well
If all leaders of the world thought like this, we would have peace.
My ❤ grew two sizes listening to this! Many blessings!
I have heard that we are entering or are in the Age of Aquarius whereby there will be collectively more transparency and lessening of ego. I guess as masses of individuals awaken, deception and injustice will become less tolerated. 🙏💚🌅
What an amazing talk! So deep and uplifting! My favorite parts:
21:00 - 23:00
26:00 - 28:00
28:00 - 30:30 something I'm currently experiencing, almost like I'm hearing myself
32:30 - honoring my incarnation, free THROUGH form, not Despite my form
33:30 - freedom of awareness, freedom from identification from thoughts
34:25 - how do you live it as a sweet play/dance
39:50 - 40:05 moment itself is enough
43:10 - fall in Love with Universe
51:05 - 55:15 - how do you keep open your heart in hell? how to go through suffering and what is suffering?
57:05 - experiencing Love in others
1:05:55 - judging others? lack of Self-Love
1:10:00 - feeling the Love of sharing the experience with Other Forms
1:15:10 - 1:22:00 - an amazing story about Love vs implying muscles/power
My favorite talk🤍
I've known Ram Dass for less than one week, and I am taken. I am blown away by so many thoughts and feelings I have had my entire life (as he says you have all the "clues you need") and I misunderstood them for different things which I can reprocess (if you will) better knowing what I know now. I feel that such freedom has been offered to me by his amazing way of communication. Thank you for sharing.
"The only reason anybody suffers is because of the clinging of their mind. Starvation is just a certain set of pangs. The fact that you suffer when you starve is because of the mind's identification with the separateness."
This sounds like the same excuse making, to prevent the pain you feel in seeing starvation, that he talks about at the beginning of the talk. If you can't face that pain in others, and try to have compassion, and even provide help - then at least don't minimize their suffering by deciding that it only exists because the starving person has identified with his mind.
Honor the profound suffering in the world. Realize that if you're reading this and listening to this lecture, you probably have no idea what it's like to truly suffer in that way - like starve to death. Or perhaps live many years with a debilitating disease. Give honor.
This man is brilliant, but I think that comment shows that even a briliiant person can have moments of condescension, where he de-humanizes those less fortunate on this planet - seeing them with so much "detachment" that he can rationalize their suffering as "grace" - yes, it's grace. So don't make it into nothing but a simple issue of detachment.
This man's Be Here Now offered all those brown pages, one after another, to an eighteen year old submerged in a clueless world. It cracked the cosmic egg that lent itself to a recognition. The topography of maps and signs lead home of course, of course...of course. The Big Picture isn't this sentence so much but for this vitality of simply breathing, as if one hadn't noticed but for yes of course.
This is so good. Sometimes I come back to Ram Dass and his talks reset me. IDK if that makes sense, but I get these seconds (they only last a couple of seconds) where I feel the way he is explaining , the high. Through meditation....I think that it may be moments of non thought, or relief or just acceptance. The acceptance, oneness....trying to get that back is like trying to catch a butterfly. These days, any form of relief seems pretty appropriate. Acceptance of the way things are today is such a challenge, but what is more challenging is having faith that we will all come out the other side peacefully and able to see it with our eyes while we are still alive.
My best analogy is it is like I am tuning an old car radio, turning the dial. You turn it all day and every now and then the transmission comes in clear and it is pure bliss!
Always at the right time Ram Dass pops up like a joker with the right words to blow open my heart and let tears melt the cold spits inside…. Thank you 🙏❤️
Yep.
Always a spot where I'm crying.
I am a clear case of “fake it until you make it.“ I’ve been listening to Ram Dass talk for years and slowly… It seeps in. I have found his words to be of great comfort; I have a clear path of attraction to follow now.
This lecture made me cry, so many parts resonated with me that I was overwhelmed with emotion
Glad we’re on this journey together. 🙂
Whenever I remember in depression I go bqck to RamDass and it soooothes my soul and I realize the power and beauty of being nobody 🥰
Those tears of love that's your true nature being reflected from this lecture 😊 enjoy
I heard this lecture a year ago and it changed my entire life and gave words to my experiences, I pulled my life up from the gutter and see and share now many cosmic giggles with my loved ones. Thank you so much for uploading this. ♡
My heart has lightened today. Ram Dass is putting wings on a heavy heart today. Thank you RD💕🌷
Rest easy brother.
I’m so #glad I got to #meet you
After years of listening to these beautiful words I finally found God in another person's eyes, I see myself. The other person is experiencing the same breath taking experience and he is not spiritual at all. His words make sense and I no longer need the trap.
I wept for you this morning Ram.
💗😊
Life, it’s going on as we speak.
Ram Das you are awesome.l was in trouble. I came from land of Rumi. But l learned from you what Rumi meant. I read it in persian but now l m clear. I'm ashamed to speak persian but yet l couldn't grasp it. You feel rumi before saying the translation . There are truly a few like you. Not many. What you teach is sacred.
How did Rumi get you into trouble?
It won't hurt forever.
Accepting ourselves in the now we find love. 💖🥀
"I am not going to run out of lovers" - this is Ram Dass ..
Thank you! Fabulous!
Thanks
Ram Dass, you have helped guide me out of so much darkness. Sending love to everybody here. :)
Merry Christmas to all the beautiful souls who see this today
Merry Christmas ❤
His book Be Here Now crossed my path in an ashram in Hermosillo, Sonora right at a point in my young life (1970) when it was needed. His talks since then have all crossed my paths at later points in my life - Dying Into Life was a great series, given I think out in the high desert in the Twenty-Nine Palms area where I lived for awhile. He's one of the speakers who seldom if ever gave any sort of "canned" performance - that is, they were/are all from his heart and from where he happened to be at the time on his evolutionary path. He had a long, rich life intertwined and filled with evolving souls. His insights and wisdom he shares can always be counted on to enrich. Ram Dass didn't deal with boilerplate. With his SEVA Foundation and Prison/Ashram Project and many other projects which I don't know about but which surely exist, he's done much good. A truly well-lived life. From first coming across his amazing creation Be Here Now, he's been a treasured gift in my own.
I love You Ram Dass.. I love You Maharaji.. RAM RAM
Coming here to remember your infinite presence and unconditional love. You will be missed.♥️ Jai Gurudev 🕉
Miss you Baba!😢🙏
God is playing a perfect game that never gets old
objectivity...then you must still be "Unwoke."
Ooooooh you coming for me! :D I get you. ... “all meaning is man made.” I’m still synthesizing dharmic thought with everyday thingifying
@@dnbjedi I screenshot this comment. It made me laugh first, and then it made me nod in agreement. I resemble this comment on so many levels. Blessings, Peace, and Love 💛
God is the perfect cook he make us a meal that never grows old
Thank you Ram Dass for your timeless truth
How were the biscuits? 😂
Thank you Ram Dass, travel well
You have helped me laugh, cry, learn, grow! I am now 76 years old, may I meet you always in being in life as best I can !!! Thank you may I meet you in every lifetime
At 1:15:30 . "...Master of Aikido .... ( Ram Das successfully mirrors , engages , and releases a distant baby's disturbed energy , resolving the conflict of sounds in the room ) "... then reads on to a story about a drunk on a train . Love this guy more and more
A Yogananda and Ram Dass follower 50+ yrs now my Love with Christ is more than ever
The way he builds you up with his words and effortlessly converts that to a meditation is .... and you hear the audience also going through the same journey through the talk. Amazing
It is all as it must be, here now. Yes, and this too. Baba Ram Dass, our teacher and friend, may your life and love continue always.
We are all so thankful!
Imagine if all the schools of the world have a couple of lessons at week like this.
We should have such a wonderful world, isn’t it?
Ram i never met you in your incarnation but i feel you in my heart everytime im in moments of clarity. You bring such comfort to my being. Thank you for being you. I never met you yet i miss you. Im happy to have been able to hear your voice and story in my lifetime.
Ram Dass, I can say without hesitation, and without mincing words, you helped me to love again. Thank you for being the light many still need in spite of your absence from this earth.
Yes it is good to thank him..but even better is to thank God
for setting it all up where this good man would be a fine
vehicle for the spreading of true love,wisdom,joy and the
ultimate insight and freedom...wish you well
So much grace. So much love. I am eternally grateful to Him
Listening to Ram Dass is so calming. I have so much respect for him.
Yes… Another person who tends to have a similar effect on people is Alan Watts.
Thank you Baba Ram Dass.
Thank you.
This is hilarious. And inspiring. I love his humility.
Thanks!
Some days are diamond, some days are rocks.
Oh so true!
It's raining rocks here and it's co cold ...
him mocking the crying babies until the cries died out and continuing on, thus defusing the entire tense situation
9:07 Thank you!!!!!!!! I lost myself into my own head with the onset of this new normal. hearing it out loud is so reassuring
There aint nothing normal about this new normal
Tell us more please?
I absolutely adore this being, this man, his enlightenment and insights have given me such solace. I remember when hearing his voice in” sit around the fire” during my first psilocybin ceremony last October, I instantly felt the this solace and vastness of space and contentment…I am such a grateful fan girl, and I hate to say it, but that’s pretty much what I am, because listening to him, I feel home, I feel connected, I feel seen and known and feel this amplified sense of belonging and insatiable hunger for his wonderful teachings, and I imagine that I am with him, or in the audience, or smiling and laughing at him laughing at me… 34:02
Me too! Namaste 😊
Man the aikido story brought a tear in my eye. So beautiful 💗
Me too 💓
At 1:15:40 Ram Dass speaks baby and and asks the baby to be quiet, and it does.
Dusty smerber wow!
I noticed that too 😅
Dude what the frick
Another way to look at it is that his gesture calmed the mother down enough to make the baby feel safe. It calmed her down because before she was worried about how people might respond to her baby crying loudly.
@@johnnynunez8040 exactly!
In and out AA 15 years ...LA Phx. Kansas City always for a women ...finally living alone content single loving myself recovery addict addicted to all my additive behaviors including alcohol ...Ram Dass has touched my soul even after his body is gone ..Spiritual aspect releasing the self living in my truth ...thank you Ram Dass... Emotional sobriety .. ✌️🙏🧘✨🌞
Thank Ram Dass. I love you.
Goodbye to the form of Ram Dass who has given so much - much love💖💖💖
This is the first time truly listening to this guy. Huge fan of Watts and T Makkena
Your every thought is a trance...a spell...brought upon Awareness which is Peace Itself...Your Natural state.
The meaning of life as it is currently must be to fine ones inner most self. To discover that subconscious that is under the suit and becoming peaceful with it. Understanding we are not round pegs, and that that is okay. The peace will always be found within you, and not with the world
If there's anything I needed to hear I have taken myself way too seriously. I know we are one, that love is what matters
Wow, this helped pour light into my heart and I cried so true and hard I feel amazing now. Holy shit! So much goodness is still here
Thank you my friend...for simply being you honest, kind loving
Watching this has helped me realize a lot of what baba Dass has experienced in his life I too have experienced or currently experiencing and it makes a breath of relief show up to know that I’m not alone and that I can work through what I have going on
What a talk...eternally grateful.
Thank you for everything you gave to this world, RIP 🙏🏻
Yes it is good to thank him..even better is to thank God for
setting it all up where this man would be a fine vehicle to spread
true love,wisdom,joy & ultimate insight and freedom..wish you well
When we recognize each other through the dance, beyond the projection it's beautiful.
Thank you for sharing this! I am listening for a third time and still in awe. This is one of the most profound talks I have ever heard.
There is a field beyond rightdoing and wrongdoing I'll meet you there. --Rumi
As much as Ram Das came to an “ever abiding state of love” after his stroke and illness, and he shared “beingness” with all in his presence. It is still so refreshing to listen and enjoy his wit and humor when his “intellect, loquaciousness and individual identity” were part of his earthly skill set.
3:13 our mind keep creating realities, we keep creating realities about ourselves
4:58 the more somebody somebody is the more you look into their eyes r to confirm your somebody-ness. But somebody is constructed from the outside in
41:12 if you’re very hungry you only see what’s edible. You only see the projections of your own desires, what will fulfill or frustrate them.
43:25 i have begun to fall in love with the universe
47:26 the absolute awe-full beauty of form - Dao - the way all forms are related to all other forms
56:29 when you want to be high everything that brings you down is a nuisance; when you want to be free, everything that bring you down shows you where you need to grow
57:10
1:11:26 seeing the beloved in everyone you look at
1:23:05 all of our life experiences are the grist for the mill of awakening
I love you, Ram Dass.
Great words of wisdom !
Thank you Ram Dass
This whole lecture has been good for me today.. but at about 48 mins in.. ive been knocked over the head a few times with whoa. What an adventure it is to live in this moment with you.. much love. Pray for me.. lol
Thank you dear teacher, your words and voice are so comforting right now … i know you are still with us but these words provide so much guidance “All suffering is showing you - is where your mind is still clinging”.. thank you Ram Dass 🙌🏽💗
Love you Ram Dass ❤
Amazing, how he brings everything together, seamlessly, smoothly adding all the ingredients. I’d so love to have those biscuits 🥰
4:21 hits me….
I come to ram dass because as a westerner I’m really caught up in making a lot of $ to give my family a better life….searching for answers.