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Ram Dass Here And Now
Ep. 21 - Energy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As long as you are somebody you are dealing with finite energy. Tuning into higher energy is not possible if ego is present. The secret to tuning into higher energy is that you get it all when ther...

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Ep. 20 - Embracing it All from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Turn off your mind and float downstream. Embrace the ten thousand horrible visions and the ten thousand beautiful ones. Embrace it all. Ram Dass talks about the idea of servant, master, and surrend...

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Ep. 19 - Karma Yogi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Karma Yoga is the transformation of being that is based on your daily work in the world. Raghu describes this talk from Ram Dass, which was recently discovered in our media archives from 1974 when ...

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Ep. 18 - Indian Stories from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass tells stories of his experiences in India that expanded his consciousness and allowed him to see the  true potential of human beings. The miraculous events that happened with Maharaji led ...

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Ep. 17 - Yoga of Relationships from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about relationships as a triangle with the third side of the triangle being shared awareness. He also talks about how the relationship of Guru and devotee has nothing to do with inte...

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Ep. 16 - Little Shmoos from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu tells a story about his father visiting he and his brother in India and Maharaji telling him to take LSD, which miraculously changed his life. As Ram Dass says, "I wasn't true to my deepest s...

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Ep. 15 - Samadhi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu tells about Maharaji and the people who were put into a state of deep Samadhi by him, which is the complete absorbtion into the divine. Ram Dass tells a story about a group of Indian soldiers...

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Ep. 14 - Meditation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu tells a story about going to a meditation workshop with some of the Westerners in India, and how Maharaji was amused by the notion so asked them to explain to him what they learned about medi...

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Ep. 13 - Fast Forward from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In 1974, in the wake of the Nixon Watergate hearings, Ram Dass produced a box set of LP's called Love Serve Remember. Included in the set were excerpts from a radio show he did that consisted of Q&...

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Ep. 12 - Behind it All from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu takes his friend Krishna Das to visit Maharaji, who gives a teaching on the oneness of all traditions. Ram Dass talks about going behind our personalities and individual incarnation and karma...

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Ep. 11 - Letting it All Go from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

While in India, Ram Dass becomes angry at the Westerners, and Maharaji tells him to give up anger and that he would help him to release it. In his lecture he discusses yoga and how all is one – ene...

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Ep. 10 - Seeing Through the Illusion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu and Ram Dass talk about the manipulation of the puny ego, Raghu tells his story of giving Maharaji stamps, but holding back half of them. Ram Dass talks about seeing through the illusion whil...

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Ep. 9 - The Tibetan Lama from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu has a serendipitous encounter with a Tibetan Lama after he visits Maharaji in Kainchi. Ram Dass discusses the seductiveness of the rational mind. 

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Ep. 8 - It's All One from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu talks about a strange experience of unity through a "contact high" on retreat in the Himalayas with Ram Dass and the rest of the group. Ram Dass elaborates on unity and discusses our faith in...

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Ep. 7 - The Veil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu, Ram Dass and other devotees travel to Kausani and rent a house overlooking the majestic Himalayas to do a meditation retreat. By cutting through the veil of illusion, one realizes they are n...

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Ep. 6 - The Four Noble Truths from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maharaji teaches Raghu how to meditate before he travels into the mountains, and Ram Dass explores the Four Noble Truths.

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Ep. 5 - Darshan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Still residing in India, Raghu and another Canadian go to meet Maharaji, who gave him a feeling of being home for the first time and showed him unconditional love. Meanwhile Ram Dass continues his ...

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Ep. 4 - Guru Found from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu struggles with two deadly diseases in India while awaiting word from Ram Dass about his Guru, and ends up visiting "the Mother" at the Kainchi Ashram, where he finds peace and restfulness.  T...

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Ep. 3 - In Limbo in India from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu arrives at his first ashram in India, disappointed because he didn't find the answers he was looking for. Meanwhile, Ram Dass ventures out of his comfort zone and follows Bhagavan Das on a tr...

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Ep. 2 - Journey to the East from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about the mental and physical trials he experienced before traveling to India after he was fired from Harvard, and about embarking on his journey to the East to find his Guru. 

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Ep. 1 - First Meeting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The premiere episode of Ram Dass Here and Now! Raghu Markus of the Love Serve Remember foundation explores the origin and early years of Ram Dass. Never heard of Ram Dass? This episode will introdu...

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Ep. 172 – The Context of Reality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1983, Ram Dass looks at the context of reality from the perspectives of both the social and political domain, and the domain of spiritual awakening.

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Ep. 03 – In Limbo in India from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of the Here and Now Podcast, Ram Dass talks about being in limbo in India in his search for the answers he came for.

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Ep. 02 – Journey to the East from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about the mental and physical trials he experienced before traveling to India after he was fired from Harvard, and about embarking on his journey to the East to find his Guru. 

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Ep. 170 – Stories on Karma from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Looking at life as a series of lawfully unfolding events, Ram Dass shares rare stories and Eastern wisdom that elucidate the concepts of karma and reincarnation.

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Ep. 169 – The Many Forms of Yoga from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Exploring the various forms of Yoga, Ram Dass shares methods for coming into the One, in this June 1981 Dharma talk from Huntington Beach.

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Ep. 168 – The Domain of Spirit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass explores how spiritual practice helps us find a home in the domain of spirit and root ourselves in presence, even amidst all the suffering and pain of this world.

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Ep. 167 – Dharmic Roles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this 1992 session, Ram Dass explores patriarchy and the Ramayana, dharmic roles, planes of consciousness, and being a good adversary. In this question and answer session from July 17th, 1992 in...

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Ep. 166 – How Different It Is… from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Be Here Now Network presents a classic talk from 1986 that captures one of Ram Dass’ core teachings around identity and the different planes of consciousness. In this talk, Ram Dass offers a metho...

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Ep. 165 - Innocence, Lightness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1989, Ram Dass shares his thoughts on how innocence is very much a part of the spiritual journey, the importance of humor and lightness on the path, and much more.

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Ep. 164 - The Path of Awakening from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Ep. 163 – The Emptiness of Compassion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1989, Ram Dass leads an exploration into what it takes to be present with our hearts, present with the moment, and to have compassion for the suffering in the world.

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Ep. 162 - The Transition from Somebody to Nobody  from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this riveting Q&A session from a 1989 retreat, Ram Dass answers questions around making the transition from somebody to nobody, right effort, doubt versus faith, and much more.

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Ep. 161 - Becoming One with Our Dharma  from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1976, Ram Dass reflects on how we can get to God by embracing our Dharmic path in life.

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Ep. 160 - Science and Spirituality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this interview from 1980, Ram Dass shares a mind-bending conversation with physicist Amit Goswami about the intersection of science and spirituality.

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Ep. 159 – Stuck In-Between Stories from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1993, Ram Dass looks at how each of us can get stuck in our transition between the fear-driven social institutions that we were born into and the love-driven paths of the h...

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Ep. 158 – A Pledge to Social Responsibility from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1978, Ram Dass looks to the example set by The Shakertown Pledge as a model for committing ourselves to inner and outer social action.

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Ep. 157 – It's All Right Here from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1982, Ram Dass illuminates how happiness, boredom, suffering, past and future, life and death, it’s all right here in every moment we experience.

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Ep. 156 – Dying Into What Is from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1981, Ram Dass looks at how we can let go of our fears about change and dying by understanding our true nature. This episode of the Here and Now Podcast is the first since...

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Ep. 155 – Astral Fun and Games Pt. 2: Doorways to the Divine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass shares a dharma talk exploring the complex relationships we form through devotional yoga that become doorways leading to inner liberation.

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Ep. 154 – Astral Fun and Games Pt. 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this blast from the past, Ram Dass is the ringmaster for some astral fun and games as he takes on miracles, psychedelic powers, and connecting across different planes of existence.

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Ep. 153 – Devotional Tantra and the Divine Mother from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this unique dharma talk from 1976, Ram Dass explores the practice of devotional tantra, which is about seeing the world as the Divine Mother Kali and feeding her with your impurities. 

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Ep. 152 – The Still Small Voice Within from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1975, Ram Dass speaks of the still small voice within that serves as a constant reminder of our true nature and relationship with God.

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Ep. 151 – Entering into the One from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1993, Ram Dass answers questions about navigating our spiritual path and working with practices that can bring us into union with the One. With the floor open to his live ...

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Ep. 150 – Becoming Nobody from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Celebrate the theatrical release of Becoming Nobody, the quintessential portal into Ram Dass’ life and teachings, with this collection of teachings featured in the film. Becoming Nobody, from dire...

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Ep. 149 - One Family, Many Paths from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1986, Ram Dass reflects on how we relate karmically within our family as we grow and our roles evolve.

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Ep. 148 - Krishna and the Seeker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass invokes lord Krishna as he discusses divine love versus worldly love, then leads a guided meditation where the seeker and guru become one.

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Ep. 147 – Motives for Spiritual Practice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1976, Ram Dass reflects on the motives for spiritual practice that can liberate us or keep us stuck in our own egos.

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Ep. 146 - A Journey Into Innocence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1983, Ram Dass reflects on the journey into innocence and uninhibited loving compassion that we all share.

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Ep. 145 – Here We Are from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this continuing talk from 1992, Ram Dass explores how we can best navigate the situation of this incarnation here on Earth that we find ourselves in.

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Ep. 144 – Accepting How It Is from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1992, Ram Dass looks at how quieting the mind allows us to accept life how it is, including all of the love, suffering, joy, and discomfort that comes with it. It is all happenin...

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Ep. 143 – Awareness is the Sky from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Buckle in for a classic talk from Ram Dass that dives deep into the concept of awareness, and the disruptive phenomena of the attractions and aversions born from karma.

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Ep. 142 – It’s All Yoga from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk, Ram Dass shares a lesson on the liberating practice of service and how we can turn everything in our life into a practice of yoga.

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Ep. 141 – Practice Makes Perfect from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass shares a reflection on the different kinds of spiritual practice available to us and looks at how they each offer the potential to liberate or keep us trapped in our egos.

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Ep. 140 – Changing Cultural Myths from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1993, Ram Dass reflects on our ever-evolving cultural myths and how we can shift our awareness beyond these narratives.

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Ep. 139 – Waking Up In This Lifetime from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this early talk, from 1970, Ram Dass talks about the methods of purification necessary for waking up in this lifetime, illuminates the traps that lie within these methods and explores what is wa...

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Ep. 138 – We’re All Just Saving Each Other’s Asses from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined live on stage by Krishna Das and Raghu Markus for a conversation that explores generosity as a path of practice and the value of being part of a community that supports each othe...

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Ep. 137 – The Importance of Inner Social Action from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined by Noah and Raghu Markus for a conversation about meeting injustice with compassion and the importance of inner social action. Find show notes and links here: https://beherenown...

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Ep. 136 – How to Inhabit Roles Lightly with Joy and Emptiness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1995, Ram Dass looks at how we can fully inhabit our roles with joy and emptiness instead of taking ourselves so seriously. Find show notes and resources here: https://beherenown...

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Ep. 135 – Creation, Creativity and Spirituality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass explores one of the most difficult teachings he was given by Maharaj-ji, accepting the perfection of the unfolding all things, and explores the curriculum of life that unfolds when our att...

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Ep. 134 – Relationships and Living Impeccably from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1981, Ram Dass explores the fierce but liberating path of relationships that bring us to a place where we can become one with another person. Find show notes and resources here: ...

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Ep. 133 – Walking Each Other Home with Mirabai Bush from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mirabai Bush and Raghu Markus join Ram Dass to celebrate the release of Ram Dass and Mirabai’s new book, Walking Each Other Home, and share a conversation about how embracing death can allow us to ...

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Ep. 132 - The Roots of Suffering from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1994, Ram Dass investigates the many roots of suffering and how our perception shapes our experience of that suffering. Find show notes and links here: https://beherenownetwork.c...

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Ep. 131 - Navigating the Journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of the Here and Now Podcast, Ram Dass and Raghu answer questions from members of the community around some of the difficulties and roadblocks we encounter while navigating our journ...

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Ep. 130 - The Spiritual Path from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1976, Ram Dass takes an honest look at the cycles of liberation experienced on the spiritual path.   

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Ep. 129 - Generosity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass sits down for a conversation with Raghu Markus around generosity and sharing the gifts of spiritual life.

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Ep. 128 - Become Impeccable from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1989, Ram Dass explores what is needed to become impeccable with whatever we are handed karmically in our lives. 

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Ep. 127 - What Survives? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This time on the Here and Now Podcast, Ram Dass explores the question of what survives after death.

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Ep. 126 - The Miracle of Maharaji with Larry Brilliant from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined by Larry Brilliant for a conversation about the miracle that was Maharaj-ji and how we can bring the love and compassion that he radiated into the world.

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Ep. 125 - Embracing the Mystery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this 1993 talk from the Omega Institute, Ram Dass explores methods of embracing the mystery of life through selflessness and service.    

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Ep. 124 - Restoring Harmony from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1980, Ram Dass invites us to bring all aspects of our lives into harmony by integrating the different planes of our awareness.   

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Ep. 123 - Fear and the Journey of Awakening from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1991, Ram Dass discusses encountering fear and working through difficult moments along the journey of awakening.    

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Ep. 06 – The Four Noble Truths from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of the Here and Now Podcast, Ram Dass teaches the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths and shares the lessons he was taught about overcoming desire while in India.

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Ep. 122 - Altered Traits: Science and Meditation w/ Danny Goleman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Daniel Goleman and Raghu Markus join Ram Dass to talk about the power of meditation that they were exposed to in the East and what Western science has begun to understand about consciousness and me...

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Ep. 05 – Darshan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass relays some of the teachings around darshan, renunciation, shakti, violence, and truthfulness that he received in his many months of study while in India.

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Ep. 121 - Sharing Darshan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1970, Ram Dass talks about what it means to share darshan from both the perspective of the devotee and the guru.

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Ep. 04 – Guru Found from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Now, with his guru found, Ram Dass continues on with the most difficult part of his journey for truth – the journey within.

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Ep. 120 - Dharmic Effort and Faith from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass has a discussion with Raghu Markus about the fine line between efforts driven by ego and the dharmic efforts that, with faith, bring us closer towards merging into the spacious love that e...

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Ep. 119 – A Sense of Change: Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass continues his discussion on how our spiritual practice affects our sense of change and how we respond to an impermanent reality.

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Ep. 118 - A Sense of Change: Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass explores how our spiritual practice affects our sense of change and how we respond to an impermanent reality.  

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Ep. 117 – Being Mindful Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass reflects on the fundamentals of spiritual practice and being mindful.   

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Ep. 116 - A Deeper Source from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass explores a deeper source of psychological neuroses and touches on some of the most crucial aspects of the spiritual path.    

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Ep. 115 - Satsang and Taking Risks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined by Rameshwar Das and Raghu Markus for a conversation around Satsang and taking risks.

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Ep. 173 – The Problem With Personality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this dharma talk from 1982, Ram Dass tackles the problem with personality, exploring how we need to honor the power of our personality without identifying and being attached to it.

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Ep. 114 – Honor Our Incarnation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Here & Now, Ram Dass asks us to honor our incarnation and live on this plane as if “we” are all “us.” Ram Dass talks about integrating a sense of oneness into all planes of ...

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Ep. 113 - Wrestling with Uncertainty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined by Raghu Markus for a conversation around wrestling with difficulties and uncertainty.  From dogma to physical suffering to our own Dharma, Ram Dass and Raghu talk about wrestli...

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Ep. 112 - The Notion of Ego from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recorded at Naropa University in 1974, Ram Dass joins Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, John Baker, Jim Green and Duncan Campbell for a conversation around the notion of ego and personal identification. I...

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Ep. 111 - Ram Dass Receives the "True Secret Teaching" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass gives a moving talk on the Guru's grace and the story of how he received a true secret teaching from his own Guru. Recorded in June 1973, Ram Dass leads a discussion around the concept of...

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Ep. 110 - Live Awake from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Live Awake; this special talk given at the 1994 Psychedelics Symposium at Chapman College follows Ram Dass's history and thoughts around psychedelics. Psychedelics have guided the course of Ram ...

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Ep. 109 - The Five Invitations with Frank Ostaseski, Roshi Joan Halifax and Raghu Markus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined by Roshi Joan Halifax, Raghu Markus and the author of “The Five Invitations,” Frank Ostaseski, to talk about his book and how death offers a path to radical transformation. Fran...

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Ep. 108 - Geography of the Journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this rare talk, Ram Dass reports on the geography of the journey of awakening. Ram Dass gives this talk not long after returning from India where he began to learn the geography of the journey....

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Ep. 107 - The True Revolution from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this unique episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass discusses seeing God in all things and how the true revolution is found through the evolution of consciousness. In both parts of this episode, Ram ...

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Ep. 106 - Who Are You? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this talk from 1976, Ram Dass talks about what we are beyond this lifetime and asks, "Who are you?" Time after time we have experienced a cycle of birth and death. Each time we are born into a n...

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Ep. 105 – Keeping our Quietness and Love from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass and Raghu have a conversation around social action and keeping our quietness and love in 2017. Ram Dass talks about balancing ourselves, social responsibility, why he puts President Trump...

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Ep. 104 - Mindfulness and Food from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass is joined by a young Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield for a meaningful talk about mindfulness and food. This discussion is part of the Naropa University Bhagavad Gita Sessions of 1974. ...

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Ep. 103 – Individual Differences from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this lecture from 1974 at Naropa University, Ram Dass talks about our unhealthy preoccupation with our individual differences.   We grow up with the identity of a separate self, building an enti...

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Ep. 102 - Soul Complex from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass has a Sunday hangout session with Raghu Markus. The two chat about the concept of the 'soul-complex', how Ram Dass manages his suffering, as well as dualit...

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Ep. 101 - Separation, Lust & Kali from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

How would you answer the question of, "Who do you think YOU are?" You probably believe that you are somebody, but that somebody is the ego. On this episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass talks about our...

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Ep. 100 - Imagination, Faith, and Gratitude from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this special 100th episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass and Raghu Markus talk about imagination, faith, and gratitude. Ram Dass teaches us to see through our own delusions that mislead us and weigh...

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Ep. 99 - Being Here Now: An Odyssey into the Essential Teachings of Ram Dass from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu introduces a new outstanding essential teachings course from Ram Dass entitled – Being Here Now: An Odyssey into the Essential Teachings of Ram Dass. After a deep dive into the Ram Dass audio...

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Ep. 98 - Spiritual Practices from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When it comes to Spiritual Practices, Ram Dass poses the question, “why do we practice?” Raghu reads a passage from The Wisdom Teachings and Good Wishes of the Adi-Buddha Samanta-Bhadra which poses...

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Ep. 97 – Being Free Together from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about disturbing emotions that may arise is potential wisdom the moment you relax into your natural mind. Look directly into it, don’t deliberately reject it, regard it as a fault, o...

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Ep. 96 - Trust, Contentment and the Guru from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu and Ram Dass do a live hang out on Skype. Raghu reminds Ram Dass of the first moment they met in Montreal  and how that moment defined a trust for him that led to meeting the Guru.  Ram Dass ...

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Ep. 95 - Plumbing the Depths of the Mystery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about the value and limits of psychedelics – when they can enhance the spiritual path and when there can be risks. From ancient times there has been the idea of an elixir sometimes c...

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Ep. 94 - Tracing our Spiritual Journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In tracing our spiritual journey, we have gone from a psychological, economic and political universe into a spiritual universe. And in the course of that transition, we have rejected the psychologi...

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Ep. 93 - The Thinking Mind from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass illuminates the trap that many of us fall into as we grow up - which is the idea that we are our thoughts. The more accurate view would be, "I am and I think.” Thinking is a power that we ...

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Ep. 92 - Creating Our Universe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass brings up a meeting he had with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche during which Rinpoche said to him, "We have to accept responsibility,” to which Ram Dass replied, "God has all the responsibility,”...

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Ep. 91 - More Profound Than Miracles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass tells the story of Maharaji arranging the reunion of a barber and his son by appearing in two places at one time and says, "More profound than miracles is the quality of His presence - His...

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Ep. 90 - Conscious Parenting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Bhagavad Gita says, “The greatest birth is in a family of Yogis.” That would reflect people who are not caught so much in the illusion of separateness. Small children, when in the presence of ...

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Ep. 89 - Edge of the Mystery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about being socialized out of any recognition of who we were. Everyone wants to believe they are who they think they are. Through the use of psychedelics we recognized we'd been had....

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Ep. 88 - 'Love Everyone' Book Interviews from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

  On this special Here and Now podcast, we feature our new book ‘Love Everyone’, stories of the Westerners who heard about Neem Karoli Baba through Ram Dass and went to meet him. The author, Parva...

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Ep. 87 - Calling Down Grace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Everybody that has asked to be free has called down upon themselves Grace; that is through their Guru, Guide, Guardian Angel or Spiritual Friend. That being, whomever it may be, is your guide to li...

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Ep. 86 - Reality Of Who We Are from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 conscious being has no attachment to any level, neither busy denying nor...

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Ep. 85 - Dharmic Fire from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass’s precise enquiry into the real nature of purification and liberation – jumping into your own individuated Dharmic fire, not ignoring your weaknesses and neuroses.  The bliss is one part, ...

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Ep. 84 - Smorgasborg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass takes a number of questions on how to navigate our paths in life. He talks about how to deal with fear and sit with it, watching our reactivity, wanting to create resistance against what w...

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Ep. 83 - Veil of Tears from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When we have any kind of mystical or ineffable experience, it upsets our apple cart. It upsets the security of our separateness.  We get attached to our separateness and become afraid of losing it....

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Ep. 82 - From Boundaries to the Human Agenda from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass takes questions from the audience on a variety of topics including letting go of boundaries, "What is the Guru?", psychedelics, methods as traps and the human agenda to name a few. “Trust ...

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Ep. 81 - Implications of a True Spiritual Journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We keep closing off the door of entry to a higher state of consciousness because of the fear of the implications of a true spiritual journey. We have embarked on a game that is much more profound t...

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Ep. 80 - Integrating Eastern Spirituality to the West from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The soil into which spirituality from the East was planted was not so rich in the early days. In India, everyone believes in re-incarnation and sees life from that perspective. In the West words li...

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Ep. 79 - Danny Goleman and HH the Dalai Lama's Vision for the World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this episode Ram Dass' satsang family Mirabai Bush, Raghu Markus and Danny Goleman hang out and talk about Danny's new book with HH Dalai Lama- A Force For Good- which coincides with HH's birthd...

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Ep. 78 - Awakening and Relationships from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When you begin to awaken, you are not coming from such a needy place when you enter into a relationship, not looking to “lock in” so quickly. Your need is still there as a human incarnation - but y...

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Ep. 77 - True Renunciation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Renunciation is internal dropout, not external dropout" This is often in direct contrast to the Western model of achievement oriented success. But we are not required to move off into a cave in or...

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Ep. 76 - Predicaments on the Path from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass answers questions from the audience on the predicament of Grace and Karma- the predicament of judging- the predicament of social responsibility. Also same sex relationships and the relatio...

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Ep. 75 - Tired of Being Should Upon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dan Ellsberg tries scare tactics to get Ram Dass to take social action. Ram Dass says –“In fact nuclear weaponry are out of balance with the way of things - The Dao - so you don’t have to cajole or...

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Ep. 74 - The Heart Language from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this wide ranging interview by Radio For Peace, Ram Dass talks about satsang/community and how it can uplift us as well as become a trap. “The possibility is there in spiritual community to die ...

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Ep. 73 - Knocking on the Door of the Spiritual Heart from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this podcast, Mickey Lemle, filmmaker and director of the Ram Dass documentary Fierce Grace, talks with Ram Dass about the power of storytelling. Writing sometimes doesn’t allow spiritual concep...

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Ep. 72 - Puja Chat with Lama Surya Das Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Surya Das joins Ram Dass for a puja side chat at Ram Dass' home on Maui. Surya Das is a bhakta as well as an American Lama. They explore questions like, "What is our true sadhana (spiritual practic...

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Ep. 71 - The Spark Behind the Veil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

How far do you have to go to get through the layers of psychology, of defenses, of personalities in order to get to the root of a being, behind those veils where the spark is - the overriding faith...

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Ep. 70 - The Duality Enigma from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We are both separate and one. Creator and created. The question is, “Can we allow for free will and at the same time acknowledge that everything is determined?” The trick is to neither identify nor...

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Ep. 69 - The Confusion in the Paradox from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The confusion of the paradox you find yourself in is that you are in an incarnation that’s totally dedicated to the preservation of it’s own separateness, and at the same time you are awakening to ...

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Ep. 68 - Passing Show from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Forms are created and exist and disappear into the formless. Methods are the ship crossing the ocean of existence. You entrap yourself in them in order to burn out karma that keeps you from being f...

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Ep. 67 - Love and Incarnation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As long as you perceive love as a verb, you are thinking of another person as a separate object to give love to. When we are truly in love, we are in a simple state of “being” love. As an incarnati...

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Ep. 66 - Nobody Special from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We can be the biggest somebody in the world when we have no attachment, but we have to start from somewhere, we can’t start out being nobody. The force of “somebody-ness” that develops the survival...

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Ep. 65 - Helping Out from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Each of us has in us a psychic DNA memory of the quality of life in the Sat Yuga (the age of truth and purity), where people generally and naturally help each other. This represents an organic flow...

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Ep. 64 - Making Friends with Change from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Change is an opportunity for growth, but it requires consciousness that holds an inner quality of equanimity and openness to the unknown. A certain way in which the chaos of the moment doesn't unde...

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Ep. 63 - Soul Pod from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass hosts his long time Buddhist friends- Jack Kornfield, Catherine Ingram and Wes Nisker at his home in Maui for an intimate chat on their first meetings - the gathering of the "soul pod" - I...

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Ep. 62 - Reincarnation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The whole design of your incarnation is like an incredible computer program that sets you into the exact life situations to move you forward towards true awareness. It’s all perfect. Every part of ...

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Ep. 61 - It's All Grace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The meaning of honoring Shiva is to give space to ALL of the forces of the universe. To recognize them all, to allow them to be, to not try to shove anything under the rug. It's all Grace: sickness...

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Ep. 60 - Reaching for God from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

All spiritual practice ultimately becomes the preparation of your body, your heart, and your mind to receive God. The path of going into God, in truth, is not an easy path.

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Ep. 59 - Desire is the Universe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Desire is a trap; desirelessness is liberation. Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer. Desire is the universe.

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Ep. 58 - Stages of the Journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Our Journey is towards simplicity and quietness - to a kind of joy that is beyond time - a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are.

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Ep. 57 - Living and Dying in the Spirit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

You build your life so that every moment is the moment of death and rebirth. Because life and death become so intimately involved with one another and finally they merge, it's the eternal present.

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Ep. 56 - Orgasm and Transcendence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

At the moment of orgasm, you transcend your separateness and there is a moment when you merge together. For most people that is the direct route to a spiritually transcendent state. What you learn ...

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Ep. 55 - Sex and Spirituality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The more evolved you become spiritually, the less boundaries there are between my energy and THE energy. When your energy is used in a way that is destructive, meaning that it creates suffering to ...

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Ep. 54 - Invite not the Future from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Can we take anticipated future suffering and turn it into something that enriches the present moment? For those of us who want to approach future suffering with some degree of equanimity, mindfulne...

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Ep. 53 - Devotion and the Guru from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Guru as a separate entity only exists within the illusion of separateness - the minute “it" has worked to awaken you - “it" ceases to be anything. It’s a self destruct mechanism.

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Ep. 52 - Transcending Individual Differences from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When you are no longer laying trips on anyone, not judging, or discriminating individual differences, you become the environment in which the optimum growth is available to all human beings you com...

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Ep. 51 - Greed & Consciousness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Most people in society are pushing away experiences that indicate that they have an identity on other planes of reality, in order to hold tightly to the plane of reality that they are comfortable w...

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Ep. 50 - Sharon Salzberg Pt. 2: Loving Kindness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself." - Sharon Salzberg "Interdependence is not romantic, but it's the truth of things - that our lives have something to do with one anothe...

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Ep. 49 - Sharon Salzberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There are tools and techniques that one can make use of to have a happier life - and these tools do not require a belief system. It’s about the possibility of re-training the condition of the mind ...

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Ep. 48 - Living the Mystery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The process is realizing that you and I exist on more than one plane of awareness simultaneously and on one plane suffering stinks, and on another plane suffering is grace. And the question is, "Ca...

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Ep. 47 - Universal Energy and Miracles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What's awesome is the amount of energy that is available to a human being. The paradox is, as long as you are a somebody you are dealing with a finite amount of energy that is able to function thro...

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Ep. 46 - And That, Too. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Our journey is about totally embracing life, but doing it with non-attachment. By embracing the ten thousand horrible visions and the ten thousand beautiful visions, you go through the doorway of n...

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Ep. 45 - Conspiracy of Consciousness Pt. 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 uses the Soc...

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Ep. 44 - Conspiracy of Consciousness Pt. 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

How can we look at our life experience in a way that liberates us from suffering and liberates those who we come into contact with from suffering? We begin to see our life experiences as Grace - as...

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Ep. 43 - Bringing it all Back Home from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We have built such a habitual structure of self definition on this plane of reality. That is the model you impose with your self definition of separateness. What does it take to bring about the ful...

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Ep. 42 - Community and the Spiritual Quest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Community is when human beings come together in the shelter of each other. We are a community of beings acknowledging the dual intention of working on ourselves as an offering to others, and workin...

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Ep. 41 - Return to the West from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass realized that the Western religious traditions weren't profound enough to connect people to their inner selves, they didn't provide man with the wisdom necessary to know inner peace and fu...

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Ep. 40 - Trungpa Rinpoche Pt. 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass interviews Trungpa Rinpoche at the Dharma Festival in 1973.

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Ep. 39 - Trungpa Rinpoche Pt. 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about his relationship with the great Tibetan Lama, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Includes detailed moments with Trungpa and Ram Dass at different events and venues in the early 70’s whe...

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Ep. 38 - Swimming with Dolphins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Swimming with the dolphins connected me immediately to my intuitive heart space. They were a mirror of non-judgmental awareness that reminded me of being with Maharaji. Being with him felt like bei...

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Ep. 37 - Alduous Huxley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alduous Huxley preceded Ram Dass and Tim Leary in explorations of the remote frontiers of the mind and unmapped areas of human consciousness. In doors of perception, Huxley studied the profound eff...

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Ep. 36 - Promises and Pitfalls Pt. 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The spiritual journey is a different path than what you thought you were on. It's very hard to make the transition to that path because we tend to take the power from the spiritual work we do to ma...

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Ep. 35 - Promises and Pitfalls Pt. 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The quality of a really good teacher is rascalism. All you need to know is this: If you want to be free, use the teacher to the fullest extent. Their karmic problems are their karmic problems.

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Ep. 34 - Promises and Pitfalls Pt. 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass talks about the promises and the pitfalls of the spiritual path, and the shift of reality that happened in the sixties that was predicated by psychedelics. This shift blew apart the tradit...

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Ep. 33 - Love Beyond Time's Reach from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Being in the presence of dying people keeps me close to the edge of my own awakening. Love touches time and turns it to dust. Love is beyond the reach of time. -Ram Dass

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Ep. 32 - Battle Between Mind and Heart from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There's another way of being in the universe. The Chinese call it "the heart mind" or as we may call it "the intuitive mind." Rather than knowing through dualistic means or thinking about it, one s...

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Ep. 31 - Aging and the Awakening from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The nature of aging is change. We are fascinated by watching that which changes. When change starts to happen to who we think we are, the fascination turns into fear. We are living in a system that...

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Ep. 30 - Risk Being Human from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What we offer each other is our truth, which includes all of our "stuff." We have to allow ourselves to be human. The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselv...

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Ep. 29 - Personality and Emotions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in respo...

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Ep. 28 - Human Heart from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Media can destroy the message in the way it delivers it, similarly, as long as I have a price I am transmitting fear, because I have something to lose. The minute I have no price, I can transmit pe...

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Ep. 27 - Spirituality and Politics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The world is a reflection of our internal state; if we dwell on turmoil, anger and confusion then that's how the world will be perceived to the individual. You have to work on yourself first before...

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Ep. 26 - Reflections on Suffering Pt. 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Raghu reveals an interesting confession about an LSD experience he had involving the death of his ego and the birth of a very specific concern. Ram Dass discusses the art of dying and suffering. Su...

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Ep. 25 - Reflections on Suffering Pt. 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The clinging of mind is the cause of suffering. Suffering gives you clues to the ways you are clinging, and we make the nature of things our enemy. If you are going to be available for someone else...

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Ep. 24 - Rama Rama from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A guru is somebody who is a pure mirror, so pure that when you meet that being you immediately see where you are caught. Ram Dass talks about the mirror of the guru, mentioning "I know more than I ...

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Ep. 23 - Shiva's Dance of Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ram Dass teaches us the mantra "aditya rdiyam punyam sari shatru bena shenam" meaning "All evil vanishes from life for him who keeps the sun in his heart."  When you understand that thought comes f...

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Ep. 22 - How May I Serve You? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

How may I serve you in the journey we are all on to come to the light? That's the only possibility we have as humans. As Hanuman said in the Ramayana "When the cloud of duality covers me I serve Ra...

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Ep. 01 – First Meeting from 2012-04-11T16:59

Welcome to the First Meeting of the Here and Now Podcast with Ram Dass!

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Ep. 01 – First Meeting from 2012-04-11T16:59

Welcome to the First Meeting of the Here and Now Podcast with Ram Dass!

Never heard of Ram Dass? Picked up a copy of Be Here Now and want to explore deeper practices for...

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