Ram Dass: Hearing Your Dharma, Hearing Your Part - Here and Now Ep. 220

Ram Dass talks about what it means to hear our dharma and your part in the dance, and why we need to listen to our heart to hear which spiritual method is the right one for us.
Want to be part of the discussion about this episode of Here and Now? Join the Ram Dass Fellowship virtual meetup on March 7th at 3pm EST, sign up for the General Fellowship group here to receive more information.
In this episode, Ram Dass explores:
The intensity of the melodrama of life, and why the game only gets interesting when we have total involvement with no attachment
Hearing our dharma in order to hear our part in the game; even Ravana and Richard Nixon were just playing their parts
The impact that coming into contact with so many different teachers and methods had on his spiritual development
Spiritual transformation and issues of faith
Listening to the heart to hear which spiritual method is the right one for your personal journey
“To look at the universe and see all of the forces - the heavy ones, the light ones, the destructive ones, the creative ones - to find what your part is in it. And if your part is that of the Bodhisattva, that of reducing the suffering of all human beings, and that’s all your work is, you just do it and do it and do it until there is no you in there, there is merely this instrument for the relieving of suffering of all beings. And that is one of the parts of the dance, of which another and equally important [part] of the dance is that which creates all the suffering in the universe. That’s what’s so far out about it.” - Ram Dass
About Ram Dass:
Ram Dass’ spirit has been a guiding light for generations, carrying along millions on the journey. Ram Dass teaches that through the Bhakti practice of unconditional love, we can all connect with our true nature. Through these teachings, Ram Dass has shared a little piece of his guru, Maharajji, with all who have listened to him.
================
Ram Dass: Hearing Your Dharma, Hearing Your Part - Here and Now Ep. 220 - • Ram Dass: Hearing Your...
Ram Dass - Here and Now - Ep. 220 - Hearing Your Dharma, Hearing Your Part
- beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass...
================
Make sure not to miss a single video podcast from Be Here Now Network! Click here to Subscribe:
/ @beherenownetwork
Follow Be Here Now Network:
Facebook: / beherenownetwork
Twitter: / beherenownet
Instagram: / beherenownetwork
================
Be Here Now Network
Podcasts, Courses, and Articles to help you live a Life in Balance.
Heart-Centered wisdom from Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das + many more!
Get a Free Guided Meditation from Sharon Salzberg when you first sign up at:
beherenownetwork.com/

[@JaiSriRam1777]

7:28

[@urgantsondus3305]

🙏🙏❤️❤️

[@-_-_-_-_-...]

This should be at the top of the comment list.

[@marcosluna7792]

I prefer Raghu but this is fine

[@vanessapetrea2490]

Thank you! I like hearing it as though I am there when he spoke; spontaneously 🙏🏽💜🙏🏽

[@vanessapetrea2490]

@@marcosluna7792it isn’t even Raghu speaking, it’s Jackie

[@ronzie]

I take a walk in kelowna downtown, it snows and I listen to Ram Dass 💌

[@spiritualphenomenon2413]

Sounds like a vibe

[@julianmendoza5044]

I need that tonight. And I will thanks for reminding me about the walks and ram dass

[@rainynightz7573]

I miss ❄️ snow !! ❤

[@booknikYT]

Did you shovel your parents sidewalk?

[@Lennyspudding]

And did you do a little jig

[@w8n_4_s8n]

I've butted heads with my mother so much lately, and I found myself repeating what an old coworker/AA buddy told me years ago "you gotta find your part in it dude". So here I am sitting alone in a new apartment, no furniture. Just a mattress and my art. And luckily, this Ram Dass through my phone. Had to borrow a charger and raid the cup holder change. Somehow I feel it's still beautiful despite how much it sucks sometimes.

[@andrewortiz5797]

Your a blessed man!! More blessed than me. I don't even have my own apartment yet and am trying to get back up on my feet due to addiction. My mom is such a narcissist! I'm trying to save up to move out. I'm saving money so I can get my own apartment even it's it's a studio. Your totally in a better situation than me.

[@w8n_4_s8n]

@Andrew Ortiz I myself am an addict.. crystal meth is no joke and i shouldve listened. Id like to call my mom a narcissist, but sometimes i cant tell if its her or me thats the real narcissist. I see traits in both. Hoarding runs greatly in my family as does alcoholism. but im trying to break the cycle. Whatever cycle that may be. I'm better at giving advice than I am taking it but man.. Just be confident and make some moves dude.

[@jakespeed6515]

Before you become a nobody, you have to be a Somebody…

[@notmaya1157]

What a class comment man respect. ✊ 🙏

[@davidharrison2099]

It’s all perfect in it’s imperfections. Everything just flowering into being in the eternal present moment ❤

[@colehofberg8617]

One of my favorite lectures by Ram Dass. Connecting so many different ancient and eastern ideas and distilling them down to make it understandable to a modern western mind. Ram Dass was truly gifted in communicating these ideas and translating these esoteric and religious stories into his stream of consciousness. One of kind. 40 years later and I have never heard any modern thinker be able to capture this level of wisdom. Thank you Ram Dass

[@aml8760]

Agreed

[@purelivingfamily]

As a parent to a special needs child it is hard to see my dharma outside of that. I was given this child for a reason. It’s a lesson every day. I love Ram Dass’s teachings

[@rigdby]

have you heard ram dass' teaching about parenting? he specifically mentions the relationship between a parent and a special needs child

[@purelivingfamily]

@@rigdby I haven’t heard that specific teaching and I would love to hear it.

[@aml8760]

Unconditional love

[@dadamager3000]

I feel like this mindset, getting in touch with dharma is one of the most fundamental things when you go down that spiritual road & try to understand what it's all about

[@citizenenak]

What's shocking to realize is that it's oneself. It's a glimpse that one notices often. It's usually quite noticeable and accompanied with fear or trepidation. This occurs in my view because thoughts and emotions are weaved into the fabric of awareness. Not sensing the localized awareness that is you apart from feeling leads one to recoil from that sensation. Once it's noticed with the recognition it is inside you, your very Knowing it becomes a north star. This is no small thing. It's a massive step that is seen for what it is after kenosis is fully endeavored upon. You could say this is the beginning of the internal work and it requires internal strength. The best prevailing description of ones being in relation to all the thoughts and emotions that grip you is a feeling of a boat in a storm that simply takes you and fills you with feelings. Never forget you are not any one thing. None of those thoughts and emotions are you. From another perspective you are everything, no half measures but given your insistence on noticing things by way of being in this world you have to see you self imposed limitation while here and you aren't anything here. Get that down because from our context here and now you will never be what is in the mind. God realized isn't dynamic, it's everything. We are in a room of sorts with our perspective while we are here. You can easily see others who don't see very far in their personal world, being consumed by emotion that creates their world that sees little changes during this life. There are others who see way more. There's always more to see until there isn't in any given context. Never decide you Know all in your heart. That's akin to a card saying go back to jail you may not collect money passing go (monopoly, a board game). I spent a life running from myself, it hurt and my only reprieve was doing something seemingly benign but different in that it evoked other feelings. It wasn't until I wanted to kill myself that I was given grace to see the difference. It's been painfully hard but through self love and patience and an inward desire to see what you imagine to be as a higher state will open up within you. Never without only within. This desire is good. Not all desire is equal. Some experiences take and require deep reflection in ones mind. Having thoughts isn't bad in and of itself, it would be nonsensical to think so. Just strive inwardly to see them apart from your current state. They can be there and make you feel in a way, strongly even, but even in that circumstance you can know yourself apart from them in their presence. This is akin to self inquiry, the process within kenosis. On this path of emptying ones self it starts the moment one recognizes the situation they are in regardless of what has been seen.

[@SuzieNunes]

Jai Shree Ram 🙏

[@usarmyveteran177]

He was trained with the best.

[@InstitutoWatts]

Blessings to everyone !!!!!!!!!

[@aliveandfree369]

Today is another special day in my journey. I thankfully receive, what I needed in this lecture from beloved Baba Ram Dass 🙏 Thank you and be love in love

[@inlovewithhumans]

Listening to The Likes of Ram Das and Osho and Some Lama or Anyone who makes Such deep Spiritual Sense makes you Feel So much Love and Respect for them for Opening themselves to everyone just to make everyone feel the importance of All Is One , and How We Should Handle our lives.. God Bless All 🙏🌺♥️

[@sat.chid.ananda]

Yknow, the way he explains how "you feel it's just right" when making decisions, it's 100% what i've been attuning myself more and more to this last couple of years, and man it's so much easier to live life like this, i just gotta listen and act towards what feels right...most my life i didnt know that and, i can see now that when i went against that feeling, everything just went to hell. Thank you Ram Dass and to the people that make this available

[@keithross1976]

Just discovered this channel and for that I thank you....

[@TheK7aloha]

This is excellent’ thank you!

[@juanotamendi8913]

Love and respect to y'all!; thanks 🧘🙏😁🌺

[@ramachandra8999]

❤Ramadharmo❤bahut sundarook ramadass TKS lordzrmji

[@z0z111]

Thank you

[@TheLouisamite]

Thank you for sharing this with the world, ,I'm glad to have found this channel, glad to have like an subscribed

[@rigdby]

hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

[@SuzieNunes]

Ram Ram 🙏

[@AwesomeAndrew]

Starts again 7:26

[@bensilverstein5883]

Lsd opened the door, but for me only meditation keeps it open

[@andrewortiz5797]

LSD and NN DMT are powerful, no doubt but it is very pale in comparison to A Mystical Experience or Spiritual Experience that comes Directly straight from Spirit. The Spiritual Experience that comes from God is way way way more Powerful and way more Profound and overwhelming. And The Good News is That It's Free!! One doesn't need to search far and wide and we don't need to look to something outside of ourselves to Find God. All we must do is Be Still and Look Within!!

[@CliffPakiry-hv5ke]

​@@andrewortiz5797that very right, i am 100 percent agree with you.

[@lilrickmartinez6472]

My son Raymond Angel Luna Martinez. Is the light what God showed me. But now everyone can only see a picture and hear or tell a story about him. Now wait for eternity to begin for me. Just got to keep living this life on earth with all of God's creations. No mistakes. More lights water rocks to see in God's images. What else are you made of gotta wait to see. 💯💙🙏🙏🙏

[@GaryLee123]

Still Here

[@rainynightz7573]

One of the best teachings on this Channel!! ❤

[@TheSachinRK]

Needed this very much, thank you 🙏

[@witchy_vibes_11]

Wow $.15 for a cuppa coffee wowzer I never paid that cheap for a cuppa coffee. My coffee is almost 3$ a cup. I love Ram Dass and his knowledge and beautiful soul. His aspect teaches me so much! I honor you! I wish I was able to meet you in the flesh! My heart becomes heavy when I listen to you. Its because you are teaching me even tho you’re in spirit. Thank you 😊 for those that share this info ❤

[@notmaya1157]

Man’s an absolute legend. He puts such a light spin on the darkest topics. Soldier of god.

[@seancasey6793]

I love you Jackie. ♥ I wish you peace a joy in all that you do. Namaste, Sean 🙏

[@aisid44]

I love you

[@lejlateletovic5225]

"I can understand the value of Sufi dance and the Zen sitting and on and on and on. And they each have an exquisite function and you got to listen to your heart to find out whether that's right on for you. The proselytizing is impure when you come on that is good for someone else. All you can say to someone else is - listen to your heart, you'll know what's good for you."

[@user-ks7pb5yj4n]

This replaces porn for me. He's great.

[@thisfool.betrippn4431]

💗Ram🙏Ram💗

[@linw7320]

Totally badass. Thank you 🙏 ❤

[@mowsie2k492]

woo!

[@inthemomenttomoment]

With all the Gods, Comedy is King👑 & 🧘Dharma, not🎭Drama, is Queen💋. Karma👣comes from not being still, retiring 2👀 the ONE=mc2,👁️. BE=mc2 in de'Light🤗🎶!

[@akame2741]

❤️

[@Lightknight1991]

Love this ❤

[@williamdonnelly224]

Lovely

[@billgezella]

Thank you. 🙏

[@marcosluna7792]

thank you!

[@homeboy6524]

@mindfulbords Wolfpack sending Love and Light to all the Souls ready to put in "the work"☀️🧠❤⛰✊

[@tomato1040]

Concerning, "The⛈️G👁️DS",😂Comedy🥸is👑King🕺♂️ while🧘Dharma, N🚫T😮Drama🎭, is👑Queen💃♀️ 👄♥️

[@thisfool.betrippn4431]

Do these podcasts have a live chat when they come out on KZbin? If not that would be nice to start one. Would help 2 if they came out same time and day each week. We could all join together and talk about the lecture.

[@ryanini999]

Yeah they do, hop on in next time!

[@SmithBrookHollow]

If you look in show notes, there was a meetup in March 7th!

[@alisonperry1786]

I dont feel intelectualizing satsang is the way it must b felt.

[@lisatowner5407]

Thanks 4 yr intros U have lovely energy ❤ 🕉 🕉 OM

[@crystalfolse3208]

Thanks ❤

[@usarmyveteran177]

“Maybe you had too much too fast, or just overplayed your part.” ~Grateful Dead

[@OPTHolisticServices]

💗🍃🙏

[@lapluiechampagne]

Merci

[@TravisCBarker]

It's not us that is actually doing the suffering. Insightful. I don't connect with the idea of grace, but I get the idea of mud n clay to work with.

[@andrewortiz5797]

Grace Is The Greatest Gift one could ever receive. Grace is given to us even when we don't see ourselves as worthy but yet Life/God Bestows It on us because God Loves us! It's Pure Unconditional Love!! God gives us Grace in our weaknesses. We have to be humble and brag about our weaknesses so that God can Demonstrate His Power in us so we can tell others "it wasn't my own strength that I overcame my drug addiction. It was all God"!!

[@davidharrison2099]

Grace is the intelligence and wisdom that sustains you from moment to moment. Life is grace.

[@inlovewithhumans]

💐🙏जय श्री राम 🙏💐 💐🙏जय बजरंग बली 🙏💐 💐🙏जय गुरुदेव 🙏💐

[@psychiccouple1728]

Thank you ☺️

[@theflarpus]

❤❤❤❤

[@michaeltyler3765]

🙏

[@TGBahr]

Embracing the darkness sounds like feeding the wolf.

[@davidharrison2099]

It’s acknowledging the wolf so that you don’t keep feeding it unconsciously.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

@@davidharrison2099 Nicely said ❤ Denial is breakfast. Suppression is lunch. Repression is full course dinner. The trifecta of strengthening the very systems we don’t like or want. Simple acknowledgment is plenty.

[@paramahansayogananda6719]

Do you mind writing the year of the speech in the description. Ram Dass in the 1970s was very different to him in the 90s.

[@begleysbeatbakery]

sounds like an 80’s talk, his voice got much deeper in the 90’s

[@KJC.91]

Thanks for sharing the audio, & for caring about the feelings of the listeners. However, We do not need a "trigger warning" for anything in Ram's talks. Gosh, most of Us are adults anyway, it's almost belittling to anounce tigger warning. Also, not statistically helpful at minimizing unfavorable responses; more likely to prime sensitivity for a trigger. Much love, peace.

[@davidharrison2099]

Sometimes triggers are the best thing for you. They show you where you are wounded and need to heal.

[@fredfarmer5952]

The only thing I didn't "love" about this... was in both the woman who gave the intro, and the way Ram Dass tipped around it... was that Chogyam Trungpa didn't die of alcoholism... but of AIDs ... which he knowingly passed onto his male lovers and the women he seduced... and sometimes raped. How can we find "Truth" and wisdom in the complexities of this life if we're hiding something?

[@laniansher]

From Wikipedia: Trungpa's doctor, Mitchell Levy, stated that he [CTR] had chronic liver disease related to his alcohol intake over many years. One of Trungpa's nursing attendants reported that he [CTR] suffered in his last months from classic symptoms of terminal alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver," [which he died of]. "Upon Trungpa's death, the leadership of Vajradhatu was first carried on by his American disciple, appointed regent and Dharma heir, Ösel Tendzin (Thomas Rich). In 1989 it was revealed that Ösel Tendzin [Thomas Rich] had contracted HIV and knowingly continued to have unsafe sex with his students without informing them for nearly three years. Some of these students later died of AIDS."

[@dinawalsh3988]

Yes, NO judgements on my part but I agree. Not someone I would want to be my Guru. But then again ya never know what he came to learn. In my own experience as one grows spiritual integrity and decernment become more important for an enlightened being.

[@minpeaceandlove4210]

it is Rumi

[@mkzrocketz6430]

18:18 The sound of raindrops?

[@cheri238]

🙏❤️🙏

[@tomato1040]

WE=mc2😎are🕯️mystics, N🚫T😅mistakes😂!

[@Robert-is7du]

Having fun in a state of Eternal love and joy in Eternal spirit of Accelerating the gift of primal sound and light compression and expansion of consciousness like surfing waves to maintain ur divine DNA software operating system blueprint of ur Universal Galactic Planetary Heart Krystal Spiral SoulArking Space Ark consciousness directed energy mirror will help maintain the balance of ur planets magnet0 sphere Motherboard Operator Dial Magnetic 0 Ohms Balance between alternating electrical currents Balance between negative and positive magnetic polarity to experience being One with all Creation spheres cycling water worlds in equilibrium states of gifting Love without having to think about it running at a hyper Atom crystal seed vibration of being connected to 7 eternal Solar Rishi Oversoul Androgynous polarity integrator to hold the poles balanced That's checkmate 7 moves 7 Nerve centers The Guardian Universal& Galactic Gate code Operators are here that re set the cosmic clock codes Have a beautiful day everyone we love U 💜💜💜 all Mu ah 💋 A lo ha

[@MattyDredge]

I normally enjoy this channel but ended watching this episide as a result of the trigger warning. Not the subject of the trigger warning but the trigger warning it's self.

[@tabula_rascal]

Sounds like you were triggered?

[@MattyDredge]

@@tabula_rascal I feel trigger warnings are so out of place in this context for a multitude of reasons, so I voted with my feet.

[@tabula_rascal]

@@MattyDredge I wish Ram Dass was around to have this discussion with us. I work with sexual assault survivors who were abused by men in positions of authority. One of these men used breathing exercises as a manipulative tactic, and now my client struggles with those (is truly triggered by them) when she needs to calm down. Trigger warnings may seem silly or overly soft to people without the same trauma. Ram Dass definitely taught keeping one's heart open to everything, but he also gently met his audience where they were at. And he wrote a public article noting how he was wrong about at least one teacher. So I wonder what he would have thought about the trigger warning. Having spent time in rooms with women whose lives have been devastated by men who comfortably enjoyed public moral authority--women who have been made to feel crazy for speaking their truth, who feel waves of nausea when their perpetrators' names are spoken, or who may shake or cry when telling their stories--I appreciate it.

[@MattyDredge]

@@tabula_rascal I fully understand the purpose of trigger warnings, the purpose is not the question. Neither am I passing comment on if the behaviour was appropriate, that is not the topic. Maybe the discussion is best summarised in a question: when living in the moment, or being present or "be(ing) here now", in that context, what purpose does a trigger warning serve? The use of a trigger warning is perhaps even ironic in that context. The only answer I have come up with which makes any sense to me is that this channel is not for people who have realised they are present, it's for people who are still trying to "obtain" that state. If this is the case, endorsing the use of a trigger warning is surely exercising a lack of "present type behaviour" (avoiding using the word Zen) whilst trying to help people become present and we're back to the irony again.

[@tabula_rascal]

@@MattyDredge as i understand it (and if we want to talk about Irony, I'm currently listening to AND enjoying Chogyam Trungpa's Smiling at Fear) yes the goal is to be present with whatever is, but getting our body-minds to the state where they can endure that (edit) *can be* a process (depending on where we are at when we hear the teachings). So this weekend I was lead in a metta mediation practice by an ordained Buddhist nun. The group on retreat had a lot of people in recovery and otherwise dealing with trauma. Instead of trying to send metta to people they were traumatized by, we worked on sending it to people who annoy or bother us... And the nun explained that ultimately metta has lead them to be loving and present with people that they were abused by... But the process took years. Does that make sense? Different teachings/pointers/handling are appropriate in different present moments. Maybe a dissociating brain is already Buddha mind in as they say, but if the traumatized body-mind can't access that truth what meaning does it have? And yes, I do think Ram Dass mainly teaches to beginners on the path (myself included :)).

[@user-yw6cl2hs6j]

Quit the long intros we don’t care about you we are here for ram dass man

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

😂😂😂

[@grahamtrave1709]

Made in 1972 …. All his predictions about what was going to happen were incorrect. The dharma is everything as it is or reality … as soon as we start to allow our decided ego mind to explain or understand we enter duality and suffering. Listen to the teaching of Ramesh Balsekar it may help it may not depending on your destiny. It’s all in the can … all predetermined. Arjuna was instructed by Krishna that he will do gods will not his will. You will fight Arjuna for as time I have already killed them.

[@AnriAsaturov]

Why do we need a lady describing what Ram Das will speak about before every video?

[@KindredLeela]

Because people complained about dear Raghu. Ram Ram

[@rustic35]

We want to hear ram dass. Not you people.

[@z0z111]

Fast forward

[@KA-cz1ni]

The commentary is unnecessary and ego filled.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

Says who? Is that your ego judging others? projection is cunning innit? That ego is there at every turn

[@IshakMujevic]

Can you please cut this woman talking out

[@johnsnotty7758]

Wouldn’t it be nice if you would just allow Ram Dass to talk instead of blabbering for no other reason other than trying to make a name for yourself? Just let Him speak. It’s His teaching.

[@neeravmangipudi8539]

Please stop with the intros

[@fuhjk502]

Can you hear the upset in his voice? Almost like he is scolding his audience. Why would such a peaceful guru go on such a rant? Something is wrong in his words. Desire, to want, to be motivated in action isn't wrong and some part of him knows this so he is very confused and frustrated and you can hear it in his tone. Balance your desire, but still desire. Temper your wanting, but still want. That is the truth that escapes Ram and was making him so unhappy.

[@ceej5705]

And here we are....

[@andrewhiggins1975]

Thank you

[@natephillips6441]

🙏