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Welcome to Ramdas here and now I'm Raghu Marcus back for another episode. This one is a we've got a talk called Living and Dying in the Spirit.

I think it could also be easily called Living and Dying in the Moment because Ramdas talks a lot here about working with Deaf and in a way that is, you know, acknowledges being present in every moment.

It's stuff I've been thinking about lately actually. That's probably why I gravitated to this one.

And it's a bit of an ongoing theme for me since my parents left about a year ago, just over a year ago, a year and a few months.

And boy, that just doesn't go away. Many of you will acknowledge that. There is a constant stream of memories in so many different ways that trigger stuff.

But the process of dying and being, you know, if you get fortunate actually to be able to be with your parents whether passing, it's an incredibly great privilege in one way and also a bit of a training, actually a training ground.

I was with my father when he was starting to get weaker. But he was still getting around so it was still probably a year and a half before he actually left.

And I was helping him do some stuff and you get him to the bathroom and all that kind of thing.

And, you know, struggle getting clothes off, you know, when you can't bend over here. In this case, he had Parkinson's.

But he just looked at me in one moment and he said, get ready. You're next. Get used to this. That's what he said. Get used to this. You're next, which was scary in the moment.

But there is a way in which going through all of this makes that very present. So back to Ramdha's talk here.

Let's see. He starts talking about, I love this little part. This is sort of him getting into this idea.

But once you've read all of the different stories of the great holy beings in the world's different religions, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Ram, Krishna.

So you get what he calls a vector view of your journey. I love that vector view.

And basically these stories, you know, they give us clues, you know, clues to show the possibility of being able to transcend our very great attachment, our very great pension for anger, lust, greed, whatever it is, self interest in the big general way.

And there's a possibility. You can see that there's a possibility. And it also show they show you where you're not. And, you know, and sort of give you where all it gives you the AIDS and show you where the traps are going to be.

So that vector view of your journey, that's something that we all encountered at some point that gave us some kind of structure and a target to shoot at whatever you want to call it.

Love that. And then he goes into in this talk, talking about death and the Bardos and the Tibetans and, you know, all of that is interesting. But I don't think I mentioned this because see this comes from this is February 10th, 1970.

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