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Ram Dass explores the benefits of practices in meditation, how different practices work for different individuals, and the individuals' role in spiritual growth. This recording is apart of Ram Dass' 1989 'Listening Heart' lecture series.
0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - Benefits in creating a daily meditation practice
3:15 - Finding discipline in practicing with compassion
12:47 - Different methods of practice and meditation
22:07 - Moving onto new practices
30:33 - Is our spiritual growth in our control?
Watch the Q&A portion of this lecture here: youtu.be/7cPovtsSmGE
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Ram Dass explores the benefits of practices in meditation, how different practices work for different individuals, and the individuals' role in spiritual growth. This recording is apart of Ram Dass' 1989 'Listening Heart' lecture series.
0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - Benefits in creating a daily meditation practice
3:15 - Finding discipline in practicing with compassion
12:47 - Different methods of practice and meditation
22:07 - Moving onto new practices
30:33 - Is our spiritual growth in our control?
Watch the Q&A portion of this lecture here: youtu.be/7cPovtsSmGE
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Find out more at ramdass.org
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![Ram Dass | The Predicament of Modern Humanity | 90s Pt. 2 | [Black Screen / No Music / Full Lecture]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kWaivnI3nnc/hqdefault.jpg "Ram Dass | The Predicament of Modern Humanity | 90s Pt. 2 | [Black Screen / No Music / Full Lecture]
In this rare talk from May 3, 1990 [Chicago, IL] Ram Dass gives some insightful, hilarious and sobering takes on multiple topics including the mythical 60s, the challenging 90s, self-identification, ethics in regard to wealth, and who we really are.
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0:00 Welcome soul family
0:49 Secrets and giggles
3:00 Have you realized your dream?
6:02 Who are we?
10:08 Therapy examined
12:30 Are we prejudiced?
13:01 Can God people be political?
15:40 Be Free, Not High
18:05 Ram Dass neurosis
20:20 The thinking mind
23:30 Heart Mind, Atman, Christ Consciousness
25:45 Contemplating Homelessness and Generosity
28:35 Ram Dass quotes Chogyam Trungpa
29:00 Wavy Gravy story
30:07 We veil our heart with our mind
33:50 The Mistreatment of Women and Native American peoples
37:01 Story of an astral lover
39:01 Ram Dass family Rabbi story
42:00 Living Rabbi speaks
46:01 Politics of the heart and mind
52:45 Ultimate relations & political role-models
56:10 Economic politics & altruism
57:01 Guatemala and Los Angeles
59:25 Examining happiness
1:01:28 The truth
1:05:01 Serving dying AIDS patients
1:08:00 Real Healing means
1:10:08 The ego ceases
1:11:11 Truth reigns in death
1:14:35 Why am I suffering?
1:18:00 How to really change?
1:21:05 The fact of earth day
1:23:20 Are you afraid of change?
1:26:50 Human potential and ritual
1:28:48 Trauma and change
1:29:26 Suzuki Roshi Zen
1:29:38 Tape cuts! Love yall!
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![Richard Alpert Becomes Ram Dass | 1968 Complete Talk | [Black Screen / No Music / Full Lecture]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oOWPNVVrWYo/hqdefault.jpg "Richard Alpert Becomes Ram Dass | 1968 Complete Talk | [Black Screen / No Music / Full Lecture]
In this very complete saga of a talk from WBAI Radio in New York (October 1968), Ram Dass shares in extremely fine detail his journey from being a super fly Harvard Professor to a deeply unsatisfied intellectual researching psychedelic chemicals, to where he is at the time of this recording - an American practitioner of Guru Kripa and Raja Yoga sharing his findings with the western world he returned home to.
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0:00 The Gift Begins!
3:00 Why am I here?
4:20 Quotes Wilhelm’s eulogy
7:40 Fall 1961 Harvard years
8:58 Cat Daddy Ram Dass
11:33 Calls the bluff
13:07 Negative Transference joke
16:48 Tim Leary and the Sacred Mushroom in Mexico
18:00 Ram Dass’ first trip - Tim Leary & Alan Ginsburg
19:30 Ram Dass experiences Ego Death
23:40 A point of awareness
26:29 The Ineffible Experience
28:40 Thrown out of Harvard
32:40 Meher Baba stories
35:30 Quotes Meher Baba on Psychedelics
37:39 1967 Richard Alpert goes searching
39:20 STP Lecture bombs
44:27 Richard Alpert lands in Tehran, Iran
48::03 Giving acid to holy men
50:01 Enter Bhagavan Das
56:40 Goes to caves in the Himalaya
1:00:08 Richard does renunciation
1:01:08 Inception of Be Here Now
1:08:00 Richard Alpert meets Maharaji
1:12:20 Maharaji blows Richard’s mind
1:14:45 Richard Alpert becomes Ram Dass
1:16:35 Maharaji asks for the Yogi Medicine
1:20:45 Describes meeting Maharaji
1:23:15 Define Guru?
1:28:20 Ram Dass asks Maharaji for faith
1:30:08 Quotes William James
1:35:35 Ram Dass reveals his Self
1:37:20 Stories of Hari Das Baba
1:40:25 Define Raja Yoga?
1:52:07 Talks on Tantra
2:01:30 Pure action in life
2:10:45 What is desire?
2:24:03 Ram Dass meditates on Thanksgiving turkey
2:36:08 The soul enters the body
2:47:50 How do I meditate?
2:59:23 Candle Flame Practice
3:06:40 Ram Dass on Omnipresence
3:09:31 Poem reading
3:13:13 Namaste Soul Family! We Love Y’all!
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![Ram Dass Full Lecture Compilation: Volume 3 [Black Screen/No Music]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/onaXHzAi-aI/hqdefault.jpg "Ram Dass Full Lecture Compilation: Volume 3 [Black Screen/No Music]
This black screen video is comprised of the iconic Ram Dass lectures Being Free Together, Promises and Pitfalls of the Spiritual Path, and Living in the Paradox of Consciousness.
0:00:00 - Being Free Together
Recorded August of 1994 in Detroit, MI
https://youtu.be/Ir5ydNXpJlA
1:09:15 - Promises and Pitfalls of the Spiritual Path
Recorded October 1988 in Santa Rosa, CA
https://youtu.be/nyn0dH5k-Ls
2:25:57 - Living in the Paradox of Consciousness
Recorded August of 1975 in Marthas Vineyard, MA
https://youtu.be/BALkNXWnehY
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