Don't Forget the Breath with Ram Dass - Here and Now Ep. 201

This time on the Here and Now Podcast, Ram Dass explores how spiritual practice helps us escape the prison of our egos, then leads a 20-minute practice with the breath as the primary object of meditation.
Explore the intersection of Buddhism & Bhakti with Be Here Now Network teachers and guests at the inaugural Love Serve Remember Summer Mountain Retreat August 25th - 29th in Boone, NC: www.ramdass.org/event/lsrf-su...
The Trap of Your Own Finite Self (9:20)
Samadhi Practice (27:40)
Don’t Forget the Breath (39:05)
“Any model of whether this is hard or easy is just another thought. All the metaphors I suggest are just more thoughts. Let them arise, notice them, go back to the breath.” - Ram Dass
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[@ryliecoyote5357]

9:19 💓

[@blueresonantmonkey3188]

That how u cut 2 the chase baby

[@swhiting100]

These intros are so long. I've lost the will to live by the end of them.

[@jonski_i]

​@@blueresonantmonkey3188 😆😆😆

[@blueresonantmonkey3188]

@@swhiting100 😢 😭 😢 😭 😢 😭 😢

[@tommyvasilev5012]

Thank you

[@grntvjn4452]

Don't forget to forget your problems

[@octavioavila6548]

Don’t forget to remember to forget

[@stevekerrfuffle]

Dont forget to forget but don't forget to remember to love, serve, and remember.

[@ScarpArt802]

There are no problems just situations

[@ganglestank]

Don’t forget to not think of a pink elephant

[@nicom9298]

When Ram Dass said “for example when you are washing dishes” I was actually washing the dishes and felt like he was right there with me. Thank you Baba ❤

[@michellepatch8327]

Odd how that happens right?

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

Beautiful… I’m only 19 but synchronicities have affected me at 17. I love them ever since. Once I stop seeking them, they come.

[@mileysmarkingroutering9152]

Love, serve, and remember. And tell the truth. Wise words from his guru.😊

[@tyejohnson9400]

I discovered Ram Dass on the eve of his transition to the “ah so…” and have been a devotee ever since. Longing to one day meet Him until I soon realized He has been within me and without me the whole damn time. Just understand that you are loved beyond whatever you think think you are could ever imagined because we are one in the same. 🙏🏾

[@jonathanreader228]

I am just beginning to realise this myself, through painful beauty.

[@ErrollBrantley-oo7zh]

Baba is a wisened being. Be here now changed my life on acid at 17.

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

How old are you now? Doubt I’ll get a response though, just wondering. I’m 19 and “awakened at 17” Here I go looking for correlations & validation

[@ratikaB33]

I love forgetting my problems. People find that annoying.

[@Mark-vd8oi]

GOD BLESS .N THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE PRECIOUS WORKS FROM RAM DASS.

[@dayamay8221]

Meditation is a spiritual exchange between the mind and the body; and breath is the currency.

[@peacesound1101]

The news of his death came lately. I had a wordless encounter with Ram Dass at an early Rainbow Gathering. While playing on a log across a stream, a shakuhachi, he listened for a minute or two, but I dislike any interruptions, so I did not stop playing or glance at him. He bowed and left. When I finished my playing, I bowed to the empty spot he had stood...

[@nozari28]

Wow that's awesome!

[@drm54321]

Always in our hearts, Ram Dass. Much love for you!

[@nicoleo6422]

9:15

[@nehha23]

If u start from your seperate identity- aaah suffering! Versus opening up through these practices to a larger identity. U r in all of these identities. That freedom embraces we and the me.

[@allisonblaustein7898]

Beautiful explanation of Becoming Nobody. Doing whilst non doing.

[@purelivingfamily]

What a powerful meditation!

[@inthemomenttomoment]

The best places in the middle where we can get back in the saddle again.

[@wayofspinoza2471]

Our emotions are triggered when our desires are not met or satisfied. Intellectuals avoid social gatherings due to fear of being out of control. Meditation has its limitations; enlightenment is possible when our mind is awake, its desire is to understand the causes of our emotions. Freedom from hate and anger is possible when we understand them.

[@anirudhs9361]

A thought to meditate is still a thought.

[@crystalfolse3208]

Thanks

[@willa4256]

Wow, right to the point!

[@markk221]

thanks for session!

[@debrably8704]

Hello beautiful soul.... Love laugh and living with detachable emotions... 🤝🦋💎🙏🕊️✨💫...✌️

[@covidfan6371]

The conclusion that they scare losing Fame, power and money.

[@noneya9035]

Why does Alan Watts go straight to the lecture but they gatekeep RD. Most of us fast forward til we get to RD anyway.

[@kencavender8787]

I love my breath and cherish every in and out breath I take. Alas, some day it will be gone.

[@scottlandyard4264]

Alas, to where will it go? In it's departing from your body, leaving body behind, you will become the breath itself

[@Vestu]

It won't be gone. Rejoice 😊

[@Taldaran]

It's like swimming underwater, and not breathing as you become one with the experience of swimming and the potential of breaking the surface, and coming back up and taking that first breath as a new incarnation. Nothing to be afraid of.

[@marciestoddard730]

No it wont. ❤

[@SAAYWOORD]

Thank you

[@Newfoundmike]

Thich Thach hann , mediation. I'm Am breathing in , I am breathing out . Verbalize in your mind

[@JCImageInc.]

Hey, thank you Be Here Now team, thank you so much. Oh, did I forget to say thank you? And before I leave thank you. Talk to you later, thank you! PS, thanks🤙

[@Dyslexicjungledragon]

Wow.

[@karelhoogendoorn]

Beautiful. Thank you ❤️

[@noonespecial4171]

If the world did not behave this way, if people did not teach children to be something other than what they are, imagine the planet. We know as children we are being lied to but we had no chance as we lacked life experience to cope, we needed to be dependent to survive. Its a very sad place and I wonder why people have children ... then I realised, its for the parents to feel secure, someone to be there for them, not parents for you, its why parents allow the system to take responsibility then blame everyone else, its never the parents fault ... it’s exhausting to be anything but who you are.

[@Newfoundmike]

IM AM EVERYTHING BUT NOTHING ! If parents acted like they want their kids to act what a wonderful world it would be for instance sharing is a big deal but adults don't do it .

[@davidharrison2099]

In this dimension it seems that you have to experience being who you are not and all of the attendant suffering that goes along with that before you can discover who you really are. Just part of life in this plane of existence. Part of the Earth School curriculum.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

Existential crisis in full swing the last 2 days. Every few weeks it shows up to steal all my attention and I can focus on nothing else. The fear is palpable.

[@davidharrison2099]

You are not alone my friend. It’s part of the human condition.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

@@davidharrison2099 sigh. Indeed it is.

[@aml8760]

Same

[@nehha23]

❤❤❤❤

[@allisonblaustein7898]

39:00 guided meditation

[@alexiarohdin879]

❤ Me running around my apartment doing the dishes and stuff while listening to this. Pro or simply to busy to paus..? 😅

[@smashingtwoscoops4999]

🙏❤

[@octavioavila6548]

I love talking about life! Not so much living it tho

[@suedonn7996]

See you in Boone.

[@rachaelandreata]

🙏💙

[@mike6572693]

Less intro and more Ram Dass

[@covidfan6371]

Lastly they kill each other for their ego.

[@jenniferchristineberg-scha2279]

Dood I just saw u today!!!

[@seaweedhero1707]

Where & When Ram Dass Wisdom?

[@jamesq3896]

I started at Ram Dass and now Jurgen Ziewe and his book Multidimensional Man goes to the issue of experience. His tip meditation and becoming lucid in dreams. He has videos on youtube too. Without OBE experiences how can we really know?

[@millenniallychallenged5641]

I have this dilemma where no matter what I seemingly do other than sleep I am unable to forget that i am breathing.. I think it's a somatic obsession. It is very distressing and I find myself wanting often nothing more than for it to go on unconsciously as It used to.

[@jeremycrabtree7683]

Im sure that can get crazy frustrating🤪 Have you used that to your advantage in meditation?

[@millenniallychallenged5641]

@@jeremycrabtree7683 I sort of feel like I've been at a vipasana meditation for 2 years yet my mind is attempting to kill me via suffocation.. I don't know if that's an advantage or not per se.. Time will tell. Deeply unpleasant though.

[@kencavender8787]

@@millenniallychallenged5641 possibly remembering a past death experience.... Let it go..

[@coachdavid-primalmovement]

Same thing happened to me when I started breathwork/meditation. Exercise/cardio helps get me out of my head like that C breathwork with mild breath holds helps me , hiking helps me move breath back into subconscious , movement meditation / yoga , Jiujitsu , and physiological sighs .

[@millenniallychallenged5641]

@@coachdavid-primalmovement Thanks glad I'm not alone.

[@myname413]

Manself

[@willcollins5660]

Ragu, have you retired? I ask because we only came here for Ram Dass, and not your ego.

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

🪞

[@troyortego4655]

hard to focus on the silence... 🤣

[@covidfan6371]

Just as a gang member, those gangsters looking for fame, power and money.

[@mizzougrad001]

Bro sounds tired, sick, or perturbed on this one.

[@aml8760]

Hes human too y

[@arobe35]

Not a single person has ever clicked a Ram Dass video and wanted to not hear Ram Dass. Please stop adding your “intros”, they’re not relevant and not what people want when they click a Ram Dass video. Make your own videos, and if people want to listen they will. But this feels dishonest and weird to add your thoughts when no one asked. Thank you

[@spiritualphenomenon2413]

Bruh ,the retreat is 1,000 something dollars .I thought spirituality was free 😂i was looking forward to going but if its really that expensive thats crazy actually.Ill just talk to ramdass through my heart ...Like you guys say anyways ,any method is trap and going and paying for this expensive retreat just reads trap all over it to me ,like would i really get closer to god by paying for love and spiritual guidance,if anything i feel like it would take people further away from source feeling the need to drops thousands to be in a place of love .First off i dont have that kind of money and second off if i went i could just camp or stay in my van ,is that free or is there a fee just to listen to you guys ramble about things i probably already know .I just wanted to go to be in the presence of such beautiful beings who got to be with ramdass ,thats literally all i wanted .Please respond if i got something wrong on prices and if i did i apologize.

[@michellepatch8327]

You’re already in among like minded folks. Don’t waste your money and don’t cling to the trappings! You’re alright, mate.