Ep. 227 – Awareness Without Identification
Ram Dass Here And Now
Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this Q&A session from 1993, Ram Dass explores an array of topics, including psychedelics as a method, assisted suicide, dealing with suffering, and awareness without identification.
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In this episode, Ram Dass answers questions about:
- Psychedelics as a method
- Assisted suicide
- Emptiness and form
- Dealing with suffering
- The relationship between the One and the many
- Liberation and service
- Awareness without identification and attachment
- The concept of criticism
- Pushing against form and separateness
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“The term attachment has to do with where the awareness is, what it’s identified with. Like, at this moment, your heart is beating, but you’re not beating your heart; your awareness isn’t connected with your heart beating, it’s just going on. And as your awareness draws back, and you find a way to start to remain in awareness without identification, then the phenomena of the universe continue to happen, but the awareness is no longer identified with the act. It’s what the Gita calls breaking the identification with being the actor. It doesn’t mean that the actions aren’t happening.” – Ram Dass
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| 0:51.0 | Look, there is an immense amount of suffering everywhere, a sea of it. Every way you look, |
| 0:56.5 | I mean, you can look in the wealthy, they're suffering, you look at the poor, they're |
| 1:00.4 | suffering, you look, you know, you can see a suffering everywhere. What are you going |
| 1:03.8 | to do? If you sit around trying to decide rationally which suffering to deal with, you'll |
| 1:09.0 | drive yourself and everybody else absolutely up the wall because you'll decide, is this |
| 1:14.2 | the most important suffering? The art is to empty, keep quieting and emptying until you're |
| 1:22.2 | quiet enough to intuitively feel the gestalt of it all, which includes your skills, your |
| 1:32.5 | existential situation, your opportunities, and understanding the web of all life. You |
| 1:40.9 | begin to see that any act of compassion done anywhere is part of the web of compassion |
| 1:49.0 | of the universe. Welcome to another Ramdas here and now podcast episode. This is episode |
| 2:10.4 | 227 Awareness Without Identification. I'm Jackie DeBrenska, your host and you, all of |
| 2:18.7 | you are the Ramdas community. A group of people with hearts and minds and compasses pointed |
| 2:25.5 | towards self-awareness, the big S self-awareness and the small S self-awareness. Thank you for |
| 2:32.9 | tuning in. We have another incredible episode to share today. It's a question and response |
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