Ep. 285 – Across the Decades: Resting in Awareness

Ram Dass Here And Now

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Speaking across the decades from the 1970s to the 2010s, Ram Dass shares his wisdom on the importance of resting in awareness.

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This episode of Here and Now is a compilation of Ram Dass discussing the concept of resting in awareness throughout the decades.

We begin in Washington, D.C., in 1976, with Ram Dass exploring being in harmony with the Tao, the Way of things, and how awareness and love are really the same thing. “When you are aware without clinging,” he says, ‘And in harmony with all of the forces, you are no longer in time.”
We move on to 1985, with Ram Dass meditating on the qualities of awareness. These are qualities such as spaciousness, equanimity, and love. He encourages us to become instruments of light, love, and presence. “Just allow your awareness to expand, to embrace everything you hear or feel or think.”
The next stop is the Virgin Islands in 1995, with Ram Dass comparing awareness to the sky. The clouds in the sky are simply the passing phenomena of life. “Your whole concept of who you think you are,” he says, “All the stuff of ‘me’ is all the cloud. And the cloud is being appreciated or embraced or carried by the sky. The sky is just awareness.”
Finally, we end in Maui in 2016, when Ram Dass had learned how to completely rest in his loving awareness. He guides a meditation to connect us to the space of loving awareness, where we can all go for a swim in the ocean of love.

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“I would say my life is about awareness. And becoming or being aware. Because becoming’s already a trip in the cloud. ‘I’m getting aware.’ It’s another one. ‘I’m washing dishes, now I’m getting aware.’ It’s just another trip, it’s another thing you’re doing. So, I’d say my life is resting in awareness. And into the awareness come phenomena.” – Ram Dass

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0:00.0	Just allow your awareness to expand, to embrace everything you hear or feel or think, just and that too, yes, and that too.
0:18.0	And just keep seeing there is space around each thing and see that
0:22.7	your awareness is the space in which all of the thoughts and all of the sensations are appearing
0:30.0	and disappearing as if your awareness were the sky and all your thoughts and sensations of the clouds coming, passing through, disappearing in the far horizon.
0:51.3	Hi, everyone. This is Ram Dass here and now, a new episode, and I'm Raghu Marcus. Glad to be with you in this moment.
1:02.6	And before I get into just a little bit of an intro about the podcast, about this particular content. I just want to say, we just got
1:14.5	back from Boone, North Carolina, where we do our annual summer mountain retreat. It's just this
1:21.1	beautiful property overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. It's extraordinary. And we had some fantastic speakers. And of course,
1:31.8	we had Krishna Das, and we had East Forest doing his thing based on the music that he created
1:40.6	with Ram Dass a few years ago, before Ram Dass left, obviously.
1:46.3	And we had Bob Thurman, who is just a phenomenal, entertaining speaker.
1:53.8	Bob is very close to His Holiness of Dalai Lama and had been a teacher until he retired.
2:02.5	A few years ago at Columbia University.
2:11.9	So just fantastic content from him, as well as somebody new, Acharya Shunya from India,
2:16.8	whose grandfather was a devotee of Niemkharoli Baba.
2:21.9	And she brought something brand new to the table, so to speak.
2:26.3	So this wonderful content, I just wanted to mention,
2:27.5	we have a platform.
2:29.1	It's called Inner Academy.
2:33.7	And on that platform, we put our courses,
2:37.0	we put our retreats and make it available to people.
2:47.1	Right now, there's over 100 hours on there, and we continually are putting up more content as we record and video it.
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