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Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work
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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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I've never read any of his work, but it seems that you have made some really great realizations from reading it!


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Namaste.

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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I have read Be Here Now and The Only Dance there Is.

Some of it was good and some of it wasn't.

Cheers,

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I absolutely love Be Here Now. The first time I read it was also the first time I took MDMA (actually second..but this was the first time I felt it). What a profound thing. It was like it all came together and I just felt it align.

As I was reading it, I realized that I already knew exactly what he was talking about. And that has stuck with me. I don't know how much of it I would have comprehended had I not been rolling. Because that's what MDMA is...Being Here Now. I've given it to people to read and they just haven't understood it at all...they didn't take anything out of it. They just weren't on that level...

"Conscioussness Equals

Energy=

Love=

Awareness=

Light=

Wisdom=

Beauty=

Truth=

Purity.

It's all the SAME trip.

It's all the SAME

Any trip you want to take

leads to the SAME place"


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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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BE HERE NOW is a great book! i haven't read any of the others. i think i'd like to walk around Tokyo with Ram Dass. where does he hang out these days?

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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Let's talk about how after some 40 years of meditation and study to increase his awareness, he went into total denial after his stroke. He lay on the floor paralyzed for something like 12 hours and kept telling himself that he could get up any time that he wanted, he just didn't want to...


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The proof is in the pudding.

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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^^^^^ As the swamster said. That's one thing.

Cheers,

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Swami]
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he went into total denial

Sounds like more swami nonsense to me. I think you'd better read "Still here". People in "total denial" don't tend to write books about their experience of having a stroke and facing death.

Lets see how you fare when you have a stroke swami.


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Don't worry, B. Caapi

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Xlea321]
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As per usual, you have it wrong. Ram Dass admitted exactly that in his book "Still Here". Reread it.

And as per usual, you go off on a tangent. How I may or may not fare after a stroke is totally irrelevant to Ram Dass' denial.


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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Swami]
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From the book "Still Here"

"As I got up to answer the phone, my leg gave way under me and I fell to the floor. In my mind, the fall was still part of my "old-man fantasy." I didn't realize that my leg was no longer working because I'd had a stroke.

I reached for my phone, on the table near my bed. "R.D.? Are you there?"; I heard the voice of an old friend in Santa Fe. When I didn't respond coherently, he asked, "Are you sick?"; I suppose I still didn't answer, so he said, "If you can't speak, tap on the phone. Tap once for yes and twice for no." When he asked whether I wanted help, I tapped "no" over and over again.

When he asked whether I wanted help, I tapped "no" over and over again.

When he asked whether I wanted help, I tapped "no" over and over again.

When he asked whether I wanted help, I tapped "no" over and over again.

When he asked whether I wanted help, I tapped "no" over and over again."


Gee, no denial there! Sounds like he is still trapped by the ego just like the rest of "us".




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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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I've read(many years agao) Be here now, Grist for the Mill, The Only Dance there is and The Meditator's handbook. They all had their place and relevnce in my life at one point.


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"Being crazier than a shithouse rat is not sufficient grounds for banishment"


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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: FreakQlibrium]
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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: FreakQlibrium]
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"Journey to Awakening" (the meditator's handbook) is the best book I've read on meditating. IN fact it's one of the best books I've ever read. Even if you already know how to meditate I would still reccomend reading it.

His brief period of denial doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the way he lives his daily life. YOur mind is probably all fucked up after something like that, and you could fall back into the ego's trap. Flashes of enlightenment can occur, and so can the opposite. why do you find that reason to believe he's full of shit and his whole life is a lie?


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everything everyone everywhere.
forever and ever

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Typingwords]
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You responded to Freak, but sounds like you are responding to my post.

why do you find that reason to believe he's full of shit and his whole life is a lie?
That is a powerfully inaccurate assessment of what I said. Why do you find the need to create words that were never spoken and then attack these imaginary words?

My statement stands alone without embellishment. To summarily rephrase: denial and awareness cannot co-exist in the same moment. His lifetime of meditation left him insufficiently prepared to "Be Here Now" during that crisis.


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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Swami]
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Exactomundo.

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Swami]
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As per usual, you have it wrong. Ram Dass admitted exactly that in his book "Still Here". Reread it.

What a truly childish view of "attaining awareness" you have. Do you think that when you have worked on "attaining awareness" you won't feel frightened when you collapse with a stroke?

What is your point?


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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: Xlea321]
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As per ususual....

What a truly childish view of "attaining awareness" you have.

Why are these comments necessary to the discourse?

They add little to the substance and some may think them detracting.

Cheers,

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Re: Let's talk about Ram Dass and his work [Re: World Spirit]
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I think Ram uses the Living Bible so the doctrines you alluded to do not apply to him.

I'm a KJV man myself. j/k

Cheers,

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