Ram Dass on Suffering and Karma

My friend Ram Dass on Suffering and Karma.

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

Oh Baba Ram Dass. This was his loving service to us all by trying to have a session with us right after his stroke. He just couldn't find words for awhile but kept going FOR US. he said he doesn't wish his stroke on anyone. But the grace from the stroke. Ive gone thru guided meditations with him even after his stroke and it was slowly. Yet deliberate, Real, and patient Love. I never skip this period of his teachings in time. He sure didn't.

[@explorer4435]

Melissa Jackson I’d love to hear more about your experiences with him after the stroke

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

@@explorer4435 I never got to meet him as I didn't make it to the last retreat before he surrendered his vessel. But I have every book hes ever written and all his lectures and meditations are online, my mom and dad taught me about him since I was little. My dad actually had acid made fresh from Timothy Leary and had the pleasure of meeting them both.

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

@@explorer4435 I just love this particular time period in his teachings (after his stroke) when alot of people didn't have the patience to listen to the slow speech, but I find just as much meaning in the pauses to find his words as much as the words themselves. His breathing in between. Its all just so powerful to me

[@explorer4435]

Melissa Jackson I love what you’re saying. It’s definitely going to give me more insight into the pleasure of listening to him during this stage... my connection with him in past two months has been the most beautiful thing I’ve experienced in my life. Basically, I can’t stop crying when I start listening to him. Tears of gratitude & joy 😊

[@explorer4435]

This is crazy Melissa ... I find myself randomly clicking on this video. Then reading your comment, and wanting to reply .... then I realize I’ve messaged you 8 months ago! Find me on ig: yayagorbani ... I’d love to learn more about baba through you

[@kassiba]

Suffering develops our compassion for others

[@RTDon]

kassiba Yes.

[@brickogden]

This man is a light.

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

🌟

[@EatPsychedelics]

You are the same Light expressed in a different way. We all are. 🕉🙏🏼

[@SeanJamesHope]

"I came here to learn about two things. Suffering & Love." -Ram Dass

[@fntime]

If you listen to 'ram dass', you'll suffer. He is quite the bore.If you are looking for love, don't ask ram dass, he's in olddecrepit 'fruitcake' with a 'load' in his pants. Sean,you sound shanty~

[@flowerchild7820]

Sean James RIP master Ram Dass

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

@@fntime That's not very nice!

[@fntime]

@@Melissa-nd8qc Melissa, sometimes the 'truth' hurts & after all, it's just words. richard alpert, aka Ram Dass, didn't complete his 'mission' instead he incorporated his mindset into some very wise teaching. Read his book, "Be Here Now" good work & forget the rest. He's a Dead End Street on the Journey of Truth! Good Luck :)

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

@@fntimeHow true indeed. Thank you friend. ❤ Good luck on yours as well!

[@HeatherAnnBeard]

I find it easier to absorb his teachings since he had his stroke. Ironic? Perhaps but then again, maybe it's all in plan so to speak. I have pondered the same question (can we live here without suffering). To me, suffering is the catalyst to the path. Being human means we must first suffer before we seek. As for the rude comments...well, ego is a hard lesson to master but love conquers all.

[@heavilymeditated108]

When he looks at the camera at the end he is looking straight into the viewer’s soul ❤️

[@pajefoster2494]

Suffering brings me close to God. Love is our divine light manifest. Two things , ah Baba Ram Dass, it is the Universe! 😇🙏

[@somethingtangy]

Suffering creates love.

[@user-ks7pb5yj4n]

That little girl's face at 3:45 reminds me of how it felt to be at my Grandmother's when I was little. The spirit can feel scary to a child. Where it's mostly quiet, maybe she was resonating in the void? When I come back to it in the silence now, I am taken back to that time as a child. I would stare at the picture of Jesus she had in her living room. I knew there was nothing to be afraid of, but it was there I recognized how quiet life really is. Couldn't wait to get back to the house and the t.v. at home though! But now, here I sit in a silent home. Full circle. ❤ Glad that little girl got that opportunity!

[@gi4sky]

Yes Ram, I love you.

[@angelmusicvideos]

the soul attaches it's self like honey, it's very sticky, within each plain a soul will embody it's self to a sticky situation because that is what it wants, its funny how what we want is what we want to get away from, that is both suffering and love, so without acknowledging both the good and bad we wouldn't experience true reality, which I understand now we learn to relinquish suffering by surrendering our selves to that suffering, transmute it to love, this is no easy matter. "I hurt every time I fall in love but it's what I wanted all along"

[@grankintam]

It's the message that is of value. It doesn't matter where, or whom it comes through.

[@nandhi108]

empowered wisdom of experience as words. gratitude for sharing it! aum

[@maxwellcooper2]

This is so beautiful.

[@VincentTamer]

Everyone is calling him out for being a druggie for his slow speech. He had a stroke in 1997.

[@RthymicGaming]

Vincent Tamer he called it “a stroke of god”.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Who is everyone?

[@akakonoha]

Druggie is a very rude word to say here...😑

[@vasilikirompotinos4268]

He may speak slow though he still knows what he’s talking about 🥰

[@akakonoha]

We love you Guru Ram Dass 💙🕯🌟

[@pigpenthecat]

Peace comes from within ones self, anything outside of yourself, is an illusion.

[@aikidog5]

He suffers from expressive aphasia following a severe stroke. That means difficulty putting thoughts into words, although thoughts are still very clear. peace

[@TheLeon1032]

so so very beautiful, thank you Ram

[@stevenforman3044]

Thank you very much. I also appreciate Ram Dass. 🤲 I have also been enjoying lots of Sri Avinash Do at the moment to help with my spiritual awakening. #SriAvinashInnerPeace I find his talks have helped me to feel a lot more peaceful.

[@meloearth]

Oh wow, what a gorgeous child @3:42!!!

[@THEWARRIORSANGEL]

i love u Ram Das

[@kamleshbagrecha7957]

thank you ram dass sir🙏🍑🍑🍓🍓🍉🙏

[@alichebry]

Love RD!!!

[@ryanini999]

I love you Ram Dads ❤

[@revrama]

Shambhavi Mudra is when by looking somewhat upward we vacate the senses, and are out of focus with the material world. The mother Life force flows thru us, completing us as her wisdom knows we need. This to me is what Ram dass looks like he is doing. Its a graceful technique in kriya yoga taught by Hariharananda paramhansa.

[@sergegoergen6559]

I realy appreciate the humor on one side and the awareness of this speach on the other :-) The "sticky nature" of our mind... of our thoughts... they always produce some questions... the can even produce more questions than experience... See also BIG THINK INTERVIEW with STEVEN HAYES.

[@reecethomson5990]

Thank you Ram Dass. I hope you are doing well. ❤️

[@ishmaelforester9825]

o the lessons we learn

[@isabelladuquedaza5971]

The laughs are stressing me out

[@MsMrbrown]

i cant belive some people have the knowledge to watch these videos,yet leave ignorent,childish comments.

[@jayd4ever]

very nice spirtuality/dharmic religions are the way to go

[@anna-zh3xr]

4:27 powerful information!! secret in life

[@sixthSigmaSnowball]

One way, yes.

[@timothywait9457]

Love bless the female child with red hair

[@precioustange]

May he recover from his recent fall Om Mani Padme Hum xxxxxx

[@2sridhark]

Sri Sri Ravishankar once said "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional".

[@TheWorldTeacher]

That is probably the wisest thing that ignorant atheist ever uttered.

[@bryanjagdeesh1892]

+Reverend Eslam wow quiet condescending for a follower of Jesus.......I'm sorry you don't actually follow the teachings of Jesus....you are a sham in the form of religion Reverend Islam.

[@TheWorldTeacher]

Bryan Jagdeesh May I ask you a serious question Slave? Why do you HATE Lord Krishna so much? 💔 All He ever does is LOVE you with His sweet, gentle, unconditional love and in return what do you do to Him? ♥ The Sanskrit word "KARMA" originates from the verbal root "kri", meaning work, action or deed. Every thought or ACTION produces an equal and opposite REACTION. When junk 'foods' are consumed, one's health is damaged to the degree that we eat such things. When we deliberately hurt another living creature, we are burdened with feelings of guilt, etcetera. Going by this logic what do you think would be the penalty for ignoring a member of the Holy Priesthood SLAVE? MUCH greater than you may realize, I'd posit. JUDGING the actions of others is a normal, natural and necessary function of every thinking person. However, one can only directly PASS judgement on those whom one has direct or indirect authority over. As a PRIEST, Slave, my duty is to judge the actions of others in this phenomenal sphere. If PROPHETS for God are not judges then who are? Now that you have MISJUDGED a superior, you too will be judged by one of your subordinates. As you have sown, so you are ALREADY reaping. You cannot say that you were never warned Slave! "Instant Karma's gonna get you, Gonna knock you right on the head. You better get yourself together, Pretty soon you're gonna be dead." 😈 John Ono Lennon If the EGO of a single person is bigger than the entire universe then how do you explain how 7,000,000,000-odd persons manage to reside together on this one tiny little planet relatively conflict-free? It's a true miracle tama SLAVE?

[@Simon0]

that little girl at 3:47 is funny!

[@aceofspadesInd]

See whoever you r....May god bless you!....Yes Ram das is right....The physical plane is meant for suffering n love.....What goes out of body when we die....something comes out ,where does thinking go?? it's with soul...where all the soul goes if the thinking is with soul ...it returns...

[@ododidit]

this man knows his stuff, he had a stroke recently! look into his teachings.

[@user-ei1hs9ji1h]

a true lovely teacher. از در درآمدی و من از خود به درشدم گفتی کز این جهان به جهان دگر شدم گوشم به راه تا که خبر می‌دهد ز دوست صاحب خبر بیامد و من بی‌خبر شدم چون شبنم اوفتاده بدم پیش آفتاب مهرم به جان رسید و به عیوق برشدم گفتم ببینمش مگرم درد اشتیاق ساکن شود بدیدم و مشتاقتر شدم Saadi Shirazi

[@juicifergizzle]

Worry about yourself, and not other people Lusseyran. That's the problem. If we all work on ourselves things will change.

[@elvergonht4959]

my comment is suffering brings me closer to god. people live childish comments about the audience. wow. as far as I know ram dass is the movement of the sixties. if it were not for him tim leary would not have been able to do all those tests since ram dass was the Harvard psychology director. and he has been as honest as he can. sure there are other levels of counscieusness but as a guy below said, if everyone would learn a quarter of this awesome psychologist or guru, teacher, the world would be in peace..this dude always has been about peace and love, but he was also was consider the man with the highest IQ.

[@TheWorldTeacher]

To which god does your supposed suffering bring you closer to?

[@janvanblaricum42]

Find why Leary was fired, then you will know that Richard followed him, leaving Harvard. Finding the whole story, up to you!!

[@rodfrost3]

shure... if you want to specifically find and pick out the definite separation between the trunk to branch to leaf........even the tree its self one of many leafs branching off what we call earth

[@heyfkldsm]

I don't expect to have thoughts after death, but I do believe that my life force does not end at physical death.

[@gvndud]

"no. Other questions?"

[@djborap]

Yep. Just people being people, nothing bad or wrong. :)

[@spacedman42]

I understand that many of you are afraid by what you say.but It's all about opposites, To know love is to know suffering and vice versa. it's all about experience, To know the true feeling or emotion in all aspects and to understand the fullness of the experience to you as an individual. And yes personal suffering will bring you closer to the one, I don't know why this is but it is, maybe it's some form of disconnection from the basic instints that helps to connect to the soul, you're true self.

[@iamjezuzchrist]

Accept that this person thinks this. See the person through but more importantly see yourself in the person too. We would not be here if we did not share the same blessings and hindrances after all. Please try for love and that is all.

[@twipley]

grow through, or learn about, suffering and love?

[@aceofspadesInd]

.A famous saint Kabir said: " Jab mae tha tab hari nahi, ab hari hai mae nahi.sab andiyara mit gya jab deepak dekha mahi....." means when i was human i did not praised god ,i forgot him...but when i am not there the beautiful chance to praise him has gone ,now i have to be born again to get the chance until i mix in his light.And you know what remains then when we miss a chance: wishes,desires,selfishness,ego so we remain attached to this plane..last but not the least suffering!Hey Ram Das Lv U!

[@Technogenic]

another dude put it more succinctly, quite some time ago. To stop suffering requires the cessation of ignorance; volitional formations; consciousness; mentality-materiality; the sixfold base; contact; feeling; craving; clinging; becoming; & birth. "Through the cessation of birth, cease ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain grief, and despair. Thus does this whole mass of suffering cease."

[@heyfkldsm]

What makes you think we don't have continuity?

[@rangedkid]

We simply don't. There's a beginning to your life and an end. The matter that you are composed of will have continuity but your conscious awareness (that exists due to particular arrangement of atoms that have been possible to manifest in such a form through millions of years of evolution) will be put to an eternal sleep. Just like how you had no thoughts before birth, you will have no thoughts after death. It's one of the obvious truths that most people have a hard time accepting it.

[@aquagroove]

Check out Isaac tigrett's magnificent Dallas talk

[@nsideimscreaming]

Any truly enlightened being who has attained unity with God can show you the way to Him. You will know in your heart! If you choose to follow Jesus, reasearch on your own who the man was & what he taught so you are not disillusioned! Jesus did indeed teach unity with God thru meditation. Namaste!

[@Simon0]

@dilwich123 why is shallow?

[@Dizzneyland91]

Alan Watts: "suffering builds character" - Thats why you got hit in school a centery ago to build your character...

[@JeremiHandrinoshorus8]

That's funny, because I get a kick out of anyone calling themselves SparkleUnicornFace actually forming a sentences, whether or not it conveys relevance or not.

[@sachinpc]

@dilwich123 Or , accept human beings, as they are :D

[@SparkleUnicornFace]

I get a kick out of seeing users bickering under this video of all videos.

[@fntime]

Thank you for your reply. If you would like to discuss more about this, please do it through my mailbox. I said what I believe, if you think the current 'manifestation' of 'Ram Dass' is valuable, then good luck. Not interested in arguing over the obvious, at least to me.(lol) This video is not helpful to anyone. Faux spiritality! But if you check out his earlier books, they can be helpful and are worthwhile. "Well done is better than well said'-Franklin The world doesn't need another 'holy man'!

[@phillyprodigy09]

Yes indeed... Through the practice of Shamanism.. I've seen and understood that we chose our sexuality, Gender, parents, family etc all before we came here and if you were raised without your real parents or lost them before you could grow up, you chose and understood that circumstance as well.

[@Simon0]

@dilwich123 or have contact but totally dont care if people like you or not. and totally dont are how others react to you.

[@TadRapidly]

@dilwich123 the truth is just the opposite.

[@powerfulnun]

theres good money selling the recordings of peoples fake laughter at these seminars to sitcoms.

[@rafasounds2010]

@GreatBigChangeComin Timothy Leary's head was not removed and frozen. Do a little more research.

[@choupana]

if you are a really concious being you cannot avoid the suffereing when you see other beings suffering injustice and victimate by criminal acts.and why should we feel compassion if nobody suffers?

[@imjustpassinthru]

"We as souls, ...." ? Is that what he said? ... Souls? ... There you have it folks. This man in not enlightened. He is clinging to an idea that gives him security, contintuity, and persistence in an unfathomable universe.

[@fntime]

I read his book, "Be Here Now".I am more familar with him than you would ever know. Honor, righteousness & 'the work' need to be reaffirmed daily. We can't celebrate our accomplishment from the past, if we are no longer walking that path. I've heard interviews since he's had the stroke, this is a persona, he talks normally when he chooses to. Eckhard Tolle's book the Power of Now is excellent distillation of buddhism. They laugh like posers! Ram Dass is everything wrong with spiritual teachers.

[@AnandSingh-uo4gq]

you are a spammer..

[@feelyoucan]

This is rubbish!!

[@michaelgfroerer1663]

It's incoherent nonsense.

[@TheWorldTeacher]

At least that explains why his audience consist of nothing but middle-aged deluded hippies.