Finding Peace with Ram Dass

Watch as Ram Dass discusses what it means to live in the present moment and witness one's own thoughts.

Video from Bhakti Fest
For more on Ram Dass, visit ramdass.org.

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Comments

[Darick Robertson]

02:00 PM on 06/04/2012

Clearly he is aging, and perhaps articulating these wonders comes to him with a degree of pause and patience as he is choosing his words carefully from an honest place and expressing something that really needs to be felt, rather than explained. Lots to learn, if we too pause to listen with patience and an open mind.

[sunnylo1]

10:36 PM on 06/27/2012

Well, he did have a stroke. That's why he struggles with articulating his thoughts. The words are tough for his brain to find.

[Brygida Biedro]

04:31 AM on 05/31/2012

Thank you for sharing those important matters.

[Mother77]

01:48 PM on 05/16/2012

Glad to see Sridhar and Ram Dass....Thanks for sharing!

[SitandStay]

01:19 AM on 05/14/2012

Thic Nhat Han:

"We are here to awaken to the illusion of the seperateness of our being."

[larry cifuentes]

07:45 PM on 05/14/2012

If always have been inclusive, then what is the separateness and where from one gets awakened at?

[Kavoom]

10:37 AM on 05/12/2012

You see how difficult it is for him to communicate with the completely inadequate tools we have in words. He sounds nuts to those without context. Actually he is to them. They ask, what planet is he from? But then again, all they have are minds...trying to understand mind. Not a bad question though since it is obvious he isn't a creature of this planet.

He says Love, One, Fear. Few can even comprehend the magnitude and scope he is almost desperately trying to communicate because they all live Merriam Webster lives.

Wait a minute... I resemble that... I hate it when I do that...

[larry cifuentes]

06:28 PM on 05/12/2012

Aren't you really telling to be let mesmerized by the interviewed's supposed mystic and induct his trance as my own ?

Sure, he isn't an Earthling ?

To go from R, A. to R. D. changes no Earthly law, you know ?

[Darick Robertson]

02:06 PM on 06/04/2012

I thought the whole point of what Ram Dass was saying was that everything is here, and now. Why would that disqualify him from being of this planet? How could it?

"I work with my mind,..The past and the future are only thoughts because they're not right here. .. right here is where it's happening."- Ram Dass

I'd like to live in a ocean of love instead of fear. Sounds pretty good!

[larry cifuentes]

08:59 AM on 05/12/2012

The statement of the interviewed @ 1:00 “you can contact a God and Guru inside and feel God in everything,” it is mirror image of his continued saying; “in I, use love as God, I just love everything around me.”

In both cases, it is the sublime promise of becoming God entity that wants to excite the viewer and fantasize also to be surrounded by “Ocean of love,” ... sans Sharks.

It is the promise of utopia, with which man is mesmerized into ever more elaborate Maya existence.

[Kristin Talbott]

05:10 PM on 07/13/2012

Awakening isn't about "becoming." It's about remembering.

As for utopia...have you ever heard the saying, "before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water?" It's pretty apt.

[larry cifuentes]

07:13 AM on 07/14/2012

Word meanings in time always turn to "become"    tricky,  isn't it ?
All  of what I am saying is that you must have a 'Process' to check out what you 'experience,'  'remembered,' isn't just make  belief   reality.If you have no process at differentiating,   then you have no way of knowing.   

[Pratitya]

07:22 PM on 05/11/2012

Thank you,

This is simple and yet profound.

It is right here, but many search for it elsewhere.

Namaste

[Ed and Deb Shapiro]

10:58 AM on 05/11/2012

Great interview with Ram Dass
Thank you Sridhar!