Ep. 93 - The Thinking Mind

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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🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ram Dass illuminates the trap that many of us fall into as we grow up - which is the idea that we are our thoughts. The more accurate view would be, "I am and I think.” Thinking is a power that we have - “Intellect is a great servant but a lousy master.” Most of us live almost entirely within the projections of our thinking mind. Intellect is only one way of knowing the world, but the intuitive mind and heart is a more profound way of "knowing" the universe than the analytic intellectual linear mind. The more you think inwardly and self reflect, the more you become an object to yourself until the whole universe is made up of objects. We need to change the relative power positions of "intellect" and “intuition" so that we develop greater balance and freedom to grow on the spiritual path. 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	Welcome everybody to Ramdas here and now podcast. I'm Rago Marquez, your host. Today's talk
1:21.7	from Ramdas is called the thinking mind. It's quite relevant to every last one of us humans who
1:35.4	grow up thinking that we are our thoughts. Are we? That's the big question, are we? Because you
1:45.4	grow up with I think, therefore I am. But before we get into this, I do want to say one thing,
1:55.9	relative to the Love Server Member Foundation and Ramdas and the retreats that we run in Maui with
2:05.2	him a couple of times a year. I've been talking about the spring retreat with Ramdas that's coming up
2:11.4	May 4th through 9th. I want to reiterate again that there is, we're a couple of months away from it.
2:19.7	And there are still beautiful rooms available at the Nipili Resort. This incredible beach resort
2:26.6	over there that we use for these retreats twice a year now. And this is going to be just some amazing,
2:35.2	amazing teachings. Ramdas is going to be joined by Lama Suriyadas and that is Lama Suriyadas, his first
2:44.5	time out there. He was with us back in the day with Maharaji. And since then, of course, many of you know
2:51.8	Lama and know that he has been with some of the most renowned rimposhes of the past 50 years. And he's
3:04.2	got plenty of stories to tell and he's also a very great meditation teacher does chanting. He has
3:13.6	all sorts of attributes that he's going to share at the retreat and do a little bit of hang with Ramdas
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