Ram Dass

Krishna Das: 'I Feel Like I'm the Same Jerk I Always Was, But I Don't Think About Myself as Much as I Used to.'

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.14.2012

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Jesse Kornbluth

It's the usual story: an angel with a dirty face. Just like you. Just like me. Only here the contrasts are all in High Def.

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WATCH: Ram Dass On What It Means To Live In The Present Moment

Posted 05.11.2012

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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 Ra...

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Why We're Together: A Look At Relationships

Ram Dass | Posted 04.21.2012

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Ram Dass

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

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Johanna Demetrakas' Crazy Wisdom: Can It Ever Be?

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Chögyam Trungpa, Johanna Demetrakas, Tibet, Pablo Bryant, Ram Dass, Robert Thurman, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Crazy Wisdom, Rubin Museum of Art, Laemmle Theater, Kino Lorber, Culture News
E. Nina Rothe

Whatever one takes away from Crazy Wisdom, one thing is certain: Chogyam Trungpa is a spellbinding subject, one absolutely perfect to inspire a future generation of spiritualism.

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Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Ken Kesey, Paul Krassner, The Realist, Ram Dass, Jerry-Rubin, Gaorge Carlin, Groucho Marx, Fbi, Tom Hayden, Jesse Jackson, Lsd, Abbie Hoffman, Media News
Michael Sigman

There's irony in the fact that Paul Krassner sees "increasing insanity" in our current politics and culture. The 1960s activist whom the FBI once tagg...

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Losing The Ego: A Conversation With Ram Dass

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 07.16.2011

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Eliezer Sobel

With his left hand pointing to the paralyzed right side of his body, he made a a gesture of dismissal, and said, "Just my body," then pointing to his heart, added, "Not me."

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Chatting and Chuckling With Wavy Gravy

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Wavy Gravy, bowed but unbroken, walks into a deli-café in New York's SoHo, holding a fish on a leash. He's making the rounds in Manhattan, doing interviews to publicize a documentary -- about his life.

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In His New Book, Ram Dass Says: 'Love Everybody.' I Wish I Could.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

"How good it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in harmony." That was the huge banner hanging on the back wall of the church. Picture it: friendly people eager for a group experience of divine love. I wasn't feeling it.

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Ram Dass Has A Son! But Has This Revelation Changed His Conception Of Love?

Sara Davidson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sara Davidson

When the DNA results came back, Ram Dass was dismayed. He'd made a point of avoiding family ties, believing they might hold him back from attaining spiritual freedom.

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Come Home

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Angela Himsel

Call yourself what you want, go to the ends of the earth, but if you're a Jew -- a non-practicing Jew, an atheist Jew, a JuBu, a Jewish Christian, or any other form of Jew you can think of -- you can never leave.

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Julia the Hindu, and the Pray in Eat Pray Love

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: T.S. Eliot, Yoga, India, Sting, Mary Tyler Moore, Eat Pray Love, Somerset Maugham, Ram Dass, Madonna, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Hindu, The Beatles, Hinduism, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Julia Roberts, William Butler Yeats, Meditation, Eat Pray Love Movie, Transcendental Meditation, Marlon Brando, Thomas Merton, Religion News
Philip Goldberg

The powerful forces of celebrity and popular culture have thrust India's Vedic heritage into the spotlight. All the media attention inspires some to cynicism and others to a genuine spiritual enquiry.

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Three Books To Take You On That Long, Strange Trip

NPR | Don Lattin | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been a half-century since Timothy Leary, a research psychologist at Harvard University, swallowed some magic mushrooms down in Mexico and decided...

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Loving Out Loud, Even With Impossible People

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Cara Barker

Personally I try to stay in the moment more, and I really have become less mean to myself, but it remains a constant challenge.

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Facebook: Sex on the Brain

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

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Eliezer Sobel

There is a blank space at the top of everyone's personal Facebook page that asks the question, "What's on Your Mind?" My response: sex.

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Avatar: Pandora Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

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Eliezer Sobel

Certain Avatar viewers are leaving the movie depressed at their inability to access a world as spiritual and beautiful as Pandora. The problem is not Earth, but rather these viewers.

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Who's The Crazy One: Dealing With Psychiatrists

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

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Eliezer Sobel

My first real spiritual teacher, Ram Dass, used to explain that while one's true, essential self was eternally pure and whole, our temporal personalities might still need the occasional tune-up.

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Andrew Weil, Ram Dass And The Harvard Psychedelic Club

Shelf Awareness | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aldous Huxley was a major inspiration for the four men Don Lattin profiles in this lively retelling of the start of America's romance with hallucinoge...

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Relaxation: The Art of Doing Nothing (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Tension, Relaxation, Yoga, Ram Dass, The Dalai Lama, Tara Stiles, Calm, Inner Calm, Anxiety, Compassion, Video, Healthy Living News
Tara Stiles

tension is like a clogged drain, keeping what we don't need from dropping away, standing in the way of our potential. We need to dig out all the sludge.

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How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anger, God, Ram Dass, Meditation, Kabbalah, Dharma, Buddhism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Healthy Living News
Jay Michaelson

Why was I angry at my fellow yogis for what their conditioning caused them to do? And, perhaps even more importantly, why be angry at myself for being frustrated?

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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The Pressure to Heal Ourselves

Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Ovarian Cyst, Health, John-Kabat-Zinn, The Secret, Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Healing, Healthy Living News
Claire Bidwell Smith

Every time I tried to picture my baby, happy and swimming around in my uterus, the image was overshadowed by that of the grapefruit-sized cyst growing alongside it.

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