Ep. 84 - Smorgasborg

Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ram Dass takes a number of questions on how to navigate our paths in life. He talks about how to deal with fear and sit with it, watching our reactivity, wanting to create resistance against what we are afraid of. Allow yourself to notice the resistance and keep softening, embrace it into yourself. The resistance against something makes the fear more intense. See the fear as a process that comes out of conditioning and identification. Ram Dass talks about “out of body” experiences and suggests that one does not preoccupy oneself with what the experience is. It’s more about what the experience is offering in terms of a deeper understanding that one can use in personal growth. Remember, the intellect wants to know it knows. Intuitively, one can feel the validity of the experience and that validity colors our future life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:55.0	Hi everyone, I'm Raghu Marcus and this is Ramdhas here and now. And on this podcast, this is a bit
1:21.7	of a continuation, although it's a completely different talk, part of a talk than last podcast.
1:29.7	It is also a series of questions and answers. And this one, we just had to do this because it's got so many
1:39.7	different, such a variety. It's a smorgasborg. Smorgasborg? Something like that. Of topics that are
1:50.9	extraordinarily practical and helpful, separation in relationship, dealing with fear, abortion. I'm
2:04.2	listening to them. Addiction, in this case, cigarettes. How does one know when one has out-of-body
2:11.1	experiences? Healing our separation from spirit. Self-hate, spiritual materialism. By the way,
2:21.8	has this fantastic story of Ramdhas going into this incredible meditation space with
2:31.3	that Swami Mukta Nanda's ashram and then just a bit later in a cave that he rented a cave that he
2:41.6	got. And there's something on fasting. By the way, in more than one of these answers that he gives,
2:52.8	and speaking specifically here about when you get into a separation of a relationship and the
3:00.2	death of a dream and a lot of pain and there's so much attachment, there's grieving, and it doesn't
3:06.4	have to be, it could be somebody dying, it could be separation in any which way. The emphasis is
3:16.3	on witness. Witness is such an important thing. I don't know how many times in any of these
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