Ep. 229 – The Sword of Discrimination
Ram Dass Here And Now
Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ram Dass explores how his work with death and dying keeps him at his own leading edge of consciousness and talks about why compassion is truly the sword of discrimination.
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In this powerful talk from 1992, Ram Dass explores:
- Working with death and dying as a spiritual practice, and how it helps keep him at his own leading edge of consciousness
- How the process of learning to live simultaneously on more than one plane of consciousness is the path to dealing with death, dying, and suffering in a more spacious manner
- How two levels of love – conscious love and relational love – come into play when dealing with death, and why compassion is truly the sword of discrimination
- How we can honor diversity by sharing our pain together and grieving our way into unity
“It’s taken me a long time to learn the way in which compassion is not fuzzy-wuzzy stuff, compassion is the sword of discrimination.” – Ram Dass
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| 1:00.0 | So what I realize in working with dying, that I have to breathe my way into love. |
| 1:06.0 | I have to open to all of the stuff of what that's about. |
| 1:11.0 | And to open to suffering and pain is the art form of the game |
| 1:15.0 | and the ability to not go into denial and into reactivity, |
| 1:20.0 | but to be with what is requires the inner work to be rooted in the many planes of reality |
| 1:28.0 | so that you can offset one plane with another. |
| 1:32.0 | Because this plane of suffering is so intense and so massive and there's so much of it, |
| 1:38.0 | that if you just live on that plane, you burn out almost immediately. |
| 1:43.0 | And when you burn out, what you do is you close your heart. |
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