Ram Dass | Light of Awareness Part 1

In this lecture, Ram Dass speaks about awareness, covering such topics as the ego, identity, the mechanics of mind, and the conclusions and paradoxes of metaphysics. Then, he leads us in a sitting and walking meditation.
Part 1 of a series of lectures from a Ram Dass workshop conducted in May, 1993, in Austin, Texas.
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[@kulwinderkaurrandhawa8416]

Ram Dass flowing, Tea simmering, cool winds blowing, Travellers coming, Travellers going, jugs Full of love over everyhead that passes by.

[@joeyehernandez1]

I love Ram Dass. The peace and clarity he helped me find has been a true blessing. Also, this technology is amazing, that someone could get life changing content from another person after they have left their body.

[@bryanbuchholtz8320]

Ram dass is a bright light to humanity

[@IAMHEALEDPODCAST]

Soooo Beautiful.. I love you Ram Dass ......I Love you Maharaji .. RAM RAM

[@colmpennie4239]

It's 6.38am here in Ireland, Only opened my eyes from a nights sleep at 6.37am, Grabs phone, More Ram instantly, thank you. These words as soon as you wake up are how you should start your day, IMO lol Namaste 🙏 ❤️

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

In wake up n my first thoughts are usually about emptiness and form, I'm usually able to realize I'm waking up before I actually do and open my eyes. I watch my thoughts transform in to a dancing and see marvelous shapes and colors. Old Tibetan dream yoga practice I figured I'd share. I call it waking up before waking up lol. U basically surrender your thoughts and witness your own consciousness and just see what it does, I've had experiences equal to the vision that made me search for answers and find ram dass from doing this so I really have to recommend it

[@Em-gj2sg]

Namaste from Ireland also

[@colmpennie4239]

Thank you guys, Namaste 🙏❤️ I am going to practice that because that sounds absolutely beautiful and so good for your soul. I have the book and will read soon, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream and Sleep. Currently reading the Bhagavad-Gita ATM. It is so good. All for just searching for more and more understanding 🙏❤️

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

@@colmpennie4239 tenzin wangyal rinpoche is awesome, Andrew holocek has some great books on it too. Lama Lena is an awesome KZbin channel for the subject, I believe she has some talks with tenzin wangyal rinpoche there. All of them suggest trying to sleep as soon as you wake up but remaining aware of your incoming experience

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

@@colmpennie4239 I am also halfway through the Gita myself haha

[@fabien4436]

Namaste everyone 🫶

[@willingsplash6197]

Namaste 😊

[@nicholasdu4719]

Hi forever 👋♾️

[@rainynightz7573]

🙏 namaste

[@scottenright4894]

Namaste my friend 🙏

[@Tweakingoff]

Namaste

[@InsectElfMachines]

Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Terence McKenna will help you find your way 🌍 🍄 ⚡️ 🤯

[@michellebarker2863]

Shrooms saved my life. Helped me unlock what was dragging me down. It made me forgive trauma by showing me another perspective

[@bonim5180]

Do it on your own! Takes bit longer but no ghoulies get in. Theres a world in there or out there whatever u prefer and being on shrooms or whatever gets u there quicker but with no armour. You need to be you,sober straight,then you get good guys not bad guys. I go often straight sober,i see the place that u see on shrooms im doing it meditating. Medication is poor mans meditation. 🖖🏼💕

[@InsectElfMachines]

@@bonim5180 I respectfully disagree. Psilocybin along with many other plants/fungi medicines are here for us to take. They’ve been used for hundreds of thousands of years by many cultures and civilizations. Psilocybin is also very effective in treating mental illness, anxiety, depression, addiction, eating disorders. John’s Hopkins university has had outstanding results with Psilocybin therapy. Meditation is important and psychedelics are important and they go together

[@nawafaloraini]

Love Ram Dass

[@OrcintheBasement]

Beautiful finally a lecture I’ve not heard!!! Please more 90s ram Dass its my favorite era currently

[@briandoyle14]

This put my body into a deep relaxation. I never have done that with that much commitment before.

[@nunyobidniz]

Be here now 🙏💚🙏

[@turinaweemmanueilbenon8193]

What a grace to share in such beautiful teachings. They found me at such a time i didnt even know much of what was happening to me. love to all that benefit from this fellow human

[@anavillalobos5090]

G R A C E ❤ (capital letters baby😜)

[@islandgirl8219]

We are loving awareness ❤❤

[@NoOne-si3nv]

Thank you for this record ❤ Getting deeper with this . When I listen to Ram Dass it’s like hanging out with my best friend 😄

[@rainynightz7573]

I’ve had a hellish week . This is the only thing holding the glue together. Thank you 🙏

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

My solace has been making a walking stick for hours listening to these lectures this week. Found a nice young ironwood tree in a spot where they grow to close to get any bigger than a inch or two around. Still has like 20 growth rings at the size its amazingly strong, Henry Ford used them here in michigan for the spokes on the first model t cause they're ridiculously strong and heavy. Listened to him while I sawed it down to exactly my height by pure guess work, sat in the woods with it and listened for a while then I took it up to the yard and started scraping off the bark with a flathead screwdriver, half of the bark just peels right off but damn the stuff that doesn't just fights and fights and fights, I walked 3 miles while scraping it still along a dirt trail, I was stopped by a car asking about a man that went missing and sat at the park for a couple hours and 2 dozen accidental jabs into my hand cause I got impatient. But I did my best when I remembered I wasn't some guy stripping a stick, but with everyone around the world suffering and butting heads sitting there scraping the stick fresh with me. Theres an old man in town who's been missing for a week walking his dog. I remembered him and cried, not just for him. I walked back home 3 miles with my half scraped stubborn-barked stick. Google said his dog made it home an hour before I got home. I went to dinner twice with different members of my family. My father drove me to dinner with him, I've been away from him for 20 years, and I heard him hold back many tears for the man n his dog along the drive. There was a single beam of light coming through the clouds over the forest. Visited my cousin I've been away from for just as long and had a second dinner with her and she had a much more cynically comical view on the old man and his dog but was happy the dog was okay. I wish I was the one who told her the dog made it home lol. I just finished scraping the stick in the basement. Typing this out helped me see, we are all that old man and all that stick. We are all the dog who stuck around with him for a week. Namaste yo

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

Sorry to randomly drop a diary entry

[@derek8282]

@@maidai-theswonk9900 I read it anyway, it was a nice story of a day. Ups and downs, easy parts, hard parts, reunions and partings. Kind of makes you think about how a day of our life might be a reflection of the whole incarnation playing out, on some level.

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

@@derek8282 I appreciate the inspiration and space for reflection that this for some reason provided for me

[@maidai-theswonk9900]

@@derek8282 and amen to that last part

[@joanpascal7745]

Long time listener.❤🎉😊

[@AnAdequateViolinist]

First time exister

[@louisejabela1]

This is my favourite lecture/teaching off all time! Thank You for sharing🙏🏼

[@TRIPTHEARTIST]

Ram ram ram 💙

[@RaviKumar-wi2ce]

Welcome to the all ....

[@AnAdequateViolinist]

Welcome to South Florida

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for sharing your wisdom and love of truth. Blessings,peace and love to all beings of the universes

[@stephenshortnacy]

Nice! New talk for me. The usual excellent spiel but new variation. Thanks for posting 😊

[@BussinGhandi]

Hey! It’s okay. Breathe. Love. Let go…

[@ZacTaylor-e8j]

Sending love to all forms ❤

[@zenllama369]

❤

[@BabvBlues]

Thank you 🥰

[@suemannon5504]

Namaste 🙏

[@margueritearavena2256]

The motive of becoming more of who I really am.

[@ans8625]

Meditation at 33:51 ❤Preparation from 32:04 ❤

[@navneetsinghgaur7358]

जय माँ महाराज जी

[@LoveEarthHereAndNow]

#Joy = #Truth #Love #Peace #Passion

[@dandy2405]

I love Ram Dass.

[@jeanjames2030]

Good morning! Across the ocean ... and yes, indeed!

[@LoveAll369]

What texts is he referring to at the end of the video when he describes the mind snapping back to the breath and the realms he visited during drugs?

[@MrFluidRock]

Oh how long have we been seeking. Only to be found.

[@JaiSriRam1777]

This comment is to peacefully protest the gatekeeping of RD’s lectures. Common complaints as clarified by the community on the Ram Dass subreddit are as follows. Removal of content, privatizing/licensing out content, copyright striking others who post content without replacing what was removed or providing another means to access the content. Restriction of what is released, cutting and editing pieces of full lectures and not releasing the full lectures themselves. Putting a paywall in place that provides access to still limited content. Access to content is overall severely limited compared to just a year or two ago.

[@oscarbrndgaard5809]

Ram Dass is for the world, not for any group in particular. Everything should be freely avaliable

[@nln7ylm663]

❤❤❤

[@navneetsinghgaur7358]

राम राम राम राम राम

[@debg70525]

Compassion is Love...

[@bonim5180]

Gotta say i dislike driving so wen i get asked i say,im driving gotta concentrate. Comes from a deep place of suffering. I dont drive anymore i dont get driving where do i need to b that my legs cant take me? My family understands that im not a fan. So aliens look down and go look at those idiots in their heavy machinary driving in opposite directions a meter away from each other,madness! When i point this out people look at me strange! Im australian so huge distances are involved. Not doing it! If my legs cant get me there,im not there. 🖖🏼💖😬

[@johannaguirre250]

ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram

[@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv1111]

Namaste, Could anyone tell me please the title of the book,Ram Dass is mentioning at the end of the teaching.

[@chrisinderkum9475]

I would like to know too!!

[@Neti-Netti]

The opposite of love isn’t anger it’s indifference…

[@tammyburke9453]

the best

[@shanekinkade9012]

RAMMEDASS!!!!!!!!

[@kimberliemann7698]

Hello

[@BillieChristine-d5c]

Hi. 😊

[@AnAdequateViolinist]

Hello

[@Sun-ng7gj]

Hey there 👋

[@juliettedaitch4529]

Free all from slavery!!!

[@Karen-ng4jl]

Meditatiin at 34 minutes in 🙏🙏🙏

[@josephbrocato6693]

I’m naste!

[@juliettedaitch4529]

Kings may not enslave anymore

[@epicarts2105]

Be there then!

[@luansmit408]

Just a dream😅

[@JulianK55]

I am god

[@JulianK55]

But I’m also a servant of god🕉

[@JulianK55]

@@sawyerstudio don’t worry you are god too

[@rajharell]

And I am your friend. But you already knew that, didn't you.

[@BillieChristine-d5c]

My burning question for everyone is, Have any of you experienced what he refers to as "You are the orgasm?"

[@throwaway999able]

why does he have to make stuff up about human respiration and people not breathing for years. its totally wrong

[@juliettedaitch4529]

Domt be a slave

[@juliettedaitch4529]

Be my friend not my slave

[@juliettedaitch4529]

Be my teacher not a slave owner

[@juliettedaitch4529]

Be you with out a sanskrit name of slavery

[@juliettedaitch4529]

May Dass not mean slave anyways!

[@helenfoster-holland6901]

I am nobody and live with God. As l am 80%unconcious😢🎉 and 20% conscious