Ep. 242 – The State of No Mind

Ram Dass Here And Now

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ram Dass explores how we can have perspectives and models about the universe without being attached to them, as long as we cultivate the state of no mind and trust our intuitive validity.

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This episode of Here and Now is taken from a Ram Dass talk at Colby College in April of 1970. In this talk:

Ram Dass explores how it’s healthy to have perspectives and models about the universe and how things are, but it’s crucial that we don’t become attached to or stuck in that perspective.
Telling stories of his time in far-out places like India, Los Angeles, and heroin treatment centers, Ram Dass shares how it’s all perspective. Having a perspective is harmonious with the Tao, with the way of things, but we can’t get addicted to it and have it become our “reality.” He talks about how things like school and television are designed to keep us stuck in our roles, models, and perspectives.
Ultimately, we can learn to trust our intuitive validity and cultivate the Buddhist state of no mind, where we have finished with our models. We can know the difference between being wise and being knowledgeable.

“As long as you are attached to any model of the universe, to any level of definition of who you are or how it works, you are closed off from the rest of it. And the state of no mind, the Buddhist state of no mind, is where you have finished with models. You don’t even be enlightened, you don’t be anything, there’s just no mind.” – Ram Dass

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0:00.0	As long as you are attached to any model of the universe, to any level of
0:10.0	definition of who you are or how it works, you are closed off from the rest of it.
0:16.9	And the state of no mind, the Buddhist state of no mind, is where you have finished with
0:21.0	models.
0:22.1	You don't even be enlightened. You don't be anything.
0:25.3	There's just no mind. And because you don't have any models, every moment is a totally
0:31.7	look I am making all things news
0:33.6	said Jesus.
0:35.4	It's all happening straight all over again because you
0:38.8	didn't have a pre-fixed model that you just
0:42.2	reinforcing or rejected.
0:44.0	Hello, amazing ones,
0:50.0	Hello, amazing ones, and welcome to another Ram Doss here and now episode.
0:55.8	This is number 242, the State of No Mind. And it's taken from a Ramdoss talk at Colby College in Maine in April of 1970.
1:07.0	And it makes me wonder what would it be like to fully live in the Tao, to fully trust that intuitive knowing completely,
1:19.8	and to just sort of constantly moment by moment let go of what we know ourselves to be and
1:26.8	how we think of the world into sort of a greater perspective. And I think probably many of us get glimpses of that from time to time, either through meditation or
1:38.5	psychedelics or crocheting, breathwork skiing, skiing rock climbing whatever your method is the state where the mind stops
1:48.1	pulling this way and that and just for that split second comes to rest.
1:53.6	And then we are sort of able to touch something beyond
1:57.7	our normal state of consciousness.
2:00.3	You know, the Buddhists, I think they call this the state of no mind which is what he's talking about in this episode
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