Hi, this is Raghubh Marcus for Ramdas here and now.

Today's shoe is going to be an introduction to a course that is going to be live today that I really wanted to share with everybody what this is.

It's been a large part of what a few of us have been doing for the last 10 months and it is a course, an online course.

It's entitled Being Here Now, An Online Odyssey, Into the Essential Teachings of Ramdas.

Aside from all the Hullabaloo, as you know, I've been working on this stuff for a long time and of course followed Ramdas back to India, back in the day after he went back the second time.

So I am very familiar with his talks and of course no way I could be familiar with all of them because they're something like almost five decades that were seemingly, they recorded all his talks.

Whoever they was, thank you they because I still find things that I had never heard before and that well in many of these things the bell gets wrong for me even though I might have heard it a number of times.

So I just have to say about this, I mean Ramdas is if nothing else, clear as a bell and this is all subjective but there's nothing I can do about it.

I mean when I met him I loved his honesty, I loved his insight, I loved his humor, I loved the love.

I mean what more was there that I could have wanted at that time when I first heard the first talks.

So this, so the way that we put this together so what we wanted to do was really cover those very, very essential teachings that everyone identifies with Ramdas yet come up with first of all, as I said we have a lot of material in the archives and we came up with many, many things that I had not either heard or seen before this is an eight week course and it's a

approximately about an hour and a half of video and audio for each subject alongside of a guide contextual guide that Ramesh Radas from Ramdas's co author you know did for us and transcriptions and there's a big bonus video at the end that's current Ramdas that we'll talk about later on because it's a big surprise.

So this course what I want to do here is just basically give a little bit of a taste of each week to give you an idea of what this is and again so I'm just going to start chapter by chapter and I'll tell you what the chapters are and just give you a little bit of a hint of what's the coming then we'll just keep moving through it.

I don't want to make a big big deal out of this but it is a big deal boy and by the way this was this is a partnership with sounds true Tammy Simon sounds true many of you know sounds true all of our family of teachers from Jack and Sharon and Joseph onward and Krishna Doss they are also have different content on sounds true from books to

music Krishna's is wonderful CD flow of grace is on sounds true so this is all going through them thank God they're taking care of the part that is very difficult for us to take care of all the infrastructure that's necessary to run a course and and so on and so forth so let's just go forward and the first week so is identity for us.

So we're just fine with our true self shifting our point of view so it's identification and perspective and it's it's something we've been talking about mindfulness lately I have been on my mind rolling podcast on the be here now network which is where all of this is emanating all the podcast

yeah mindfulness and I've said just recently it's come to me that until we have that moment where we can see that we could have an identification with something other than our ego senses thinking mind only then when we have that perspective can we even think of doing anything with mindfulness of awareness of practice or anything

so this first talk from Ram Das is as around what I picked it was totally around identification in this thing there's a cute line you're trying to find who is me and who is not me

and that's the first absolute step onto the path is that self inquiry and that search for who it is we truly are and we find out through an ineffable experience or through a psychedelic or through a piece of music or whatever we find out that there is that something else and then we want to chase it

and that process starts the complete switch and where we identify ourselves I mean this whole thing from beginning to end of these eight weeks is is really Ram Das helping get out of the head and into the heart a large part of this is that so here is a

little excerpt so these are going to be little excerpts hopefully you know they'll make enough sense and from the first week around identification and perspective.

This year last year it was two planes any two this year I'm pushing three planes out of the infinite variety of planes I'm just pushing three

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