Ep. 226 – Escaping the Prison of Separateness

Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember

Ram Dass, Religion & Spirituality, Newage, Wisdom, Society & Culture, Ram, Ramdass, Hinduism, Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this potent recording from 1994, Ram Dass talks about the nature of suffering and how we can escape the prison of separateness created by our cultural infatuation with individualism.

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In this episode, Ram Dass explores:

The nature of suffering and how we create more suffering even as we try to address it
His own journey of somebody-ness and becoming a separate entity
The connection between emptiness and compassion when it comes to dealing with suffering
The predicament of the personality and how individualism became a cultural infatuation in the Western world
How we can ultimately escape from the prison of separateness

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“The exercises are to cultivate awareness that is not trapped by the identification with experiences. The exercise is, to the extent that you are dancing in form, to play the most fun game, that is, dancing with the beloved.” – Ram Dass

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0:55.2	With the art form of looking through the veils and meeting another being in a space which
1:00.8	allows whatever it could be to be, rather than coming in with a program that defines reality
1:07.4	so rigidly.
1:09.9	I saw that as the game, and I was the deepest part of that teaching was in the statement
1:16.0	out of emptiness arises compassion.
1:19.6	And when I am empty of my separateness for a moment, I experienced the totality.
1:25.5	I am the totality.
1:27.4	And out of that gestalt, that intuitive gestalt comes a response.
1:33.4	And the response doesn't ignore that suffering, or that joy, or that reality, or that possibility.
1:39.9	It's all part of which you can't analytically understand anyway.
1:49.6	Welcome, everyone, to another Ramdas here and now episode.
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