On this recording from a 1992 retreat, Ram Dass talks about coping with change, utilizing the stuff of your every day life to get free, and the way your karma defines your dharma.
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This episode of Right here and Now could be from a chat Ram Dass gave throughout a retreat on the Omega Basis in 1992.
- Starting with quotes from the good poets Kabir and Rumi, Ram Dass talks about the way you begin to work with every factor in your life as a way, as a follow. What you’ve received in life turns into what you’re employed with, so your karma defines your dharma.
- Ram Dass brings up the fixed adjustments we’re coping with when it comes to ecology, politics, and the way residing in “fascinating instances” might be seen as a blessing as a substitute of a curse. “In coping with these adjustments which are happening,” he says, “a part of the actual artwork is to take a look at what’s altering and see how your identification with that which adjustments is creating a lot worry in you that you simply’re pushing in opposition to change.”
- Persevering with along with his exploration of change, Ram Dass brings getting older and loss of life into the combo. He digs into coping with adjustments to the physique as we age, and the way his work with people who find themselves dying is admittedly work on himself. “For me,” he says, “every act turns into a part of the awakening.”
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“And what you do is you simply begin flipping and taking what you’re given and begin to work with it. In different phrases, your karma defines your dharma. Which means what you bought is what you’re employed with. I imply, like, my baldness is my karma. I imply, it’s my genetics, it’s all the pieces. Now, it turns into my dharma. Now, I can use it with a purpose to grow to be freed from being bald, or being not bald, or no matter.” – Ram Dass
