Ep. 83 - Vale of Tears

Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember

Ram Dass, Religion & Spirituality, Newage, Wisdom, Society & Culture, Ram, Ramdass, Hinduism, Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 September 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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When we have any kind of mystical or ineffable experience, it upsets our apple cart. It upsets the security of our separateness. We get attached to our separateness and become afraid of losing it. And out of that comes greed, lust, anxiety and fear. The main quality of that separateness is suffering, which is why it’s called “the vale of tears.” This birth, which looks to you as a kind of chaotic, random, somewhat morbid humor of God, has an absolute exquisite perfection of the unfolding of your being in an evolutionary direction towards you becoming fully conscious of who you are, which turns out to be God.

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0:00.0	In a world that often feels like it's teetering on the edge, it's not surprising that so many of us grapple with feelings of instability and overwhelm.
0:10.0	On Tuesday, December 19th, join acclaimed Buddhist meditation teachers Sharon Salzburg and Ethan Nicktern for a free online conversation on staying grounded, available, and engaged even when the world is on fire.
0:24.0	Ethan and Sharon will also discuss the upcoming darmamoon year-long Buddhist studies program
0:29.0	and offer their insights on how studying Buddhism can help us show up more fully for ourselves and others during these challenging times.
0:37.0	Visit darmamamoon.com slash event for more info and reserve your free spot. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
0:57.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Welcome everybody to Ram Doss here and now and I'm your host, Ragu Marcus.
1:14.0	Today's talk comes from March 1975,
1:22.0	March 20 in Washington to be exact. March
1:23.0	19th, 20 in Washington to be exact.
1:25.0	Actually, Ramda's in this talk,
1:30.0	he says that two weeks previous to that evening,
1:37.3	he had read this article in New York Times Sunday magazine,
1:42.1	which I love, I read every Sunday. And it was about
1:47.0	said two-fifths, they did a survey, two-fifths of the country of people had mystical experiences.
2:01.0	And 80%, this is crazy, 80% percent, this is crazy, 80% of those people said they did not want to have it again.
2:10.0	And they said it was the greatest experience I've ever had and I never want to have it again.
2:15.0	Isn't that wild?
2:18.0	And that's going to lead us into what this talk is about. You know, he's got a few things going on this talk
2:25.8	we're going to title it Vale of Tears and the Vale of Tears is a term that relates with the separateness that we live, that we get
2:38.1	born into and how we deal with that suffering of separateness is the veil of tears.
2:48.0	And obviously removing that veil is much of what our spiritual work is about. I'm going to bring in here something
2:56.2	it's interesting because I was doing something for a podcast for mind rolling on the MindPod Network, which some of you I know are aware of.
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