Spirituality & Rehabilitation: A Day with Ram Dass 2004

Ram Dass spent Wednesday, September 8, 2004 visiting his hometown of Boston as the invited guest of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. This video includes: An informal Q&A conversation with hospital staff and patients, which highlighted the universality of Ram Dass' message as a "strokee" and a wise Soul. Excerpts from Ram Dass' interview with Dr. Eric Leskowitz, Director of the SRH Integrative Medicine Task Force, where he describes his struggle to find spiritual meaning in disability. Highlights from the evening lecture to a sold-out community-wide audience, an inspiring event that was replete with Ram Dass' famliar blend of humor, wisdom and compassion.
(Boston, MA - 9/8/2004)

[@TimeWizard727]

I had a stroke at 24 and I'm a year and a half into an intense healing spiritual journey recovering from it. I turn 28 this week and this just randomly came on my TV at 3 am.... something in the universe had me in mind 😭💓 THANK YOU LITERALLY LIFE CHANGING

[@ti2218]

A few months ago I would've thought you were lying but I've been having very similar experiences lately. There are no coincidences, no accidents.

[@alfie3010]

🙏

[@patricia753]

I had a similar incident also! My cousin committed suicide, and directly after I saw a number of graphic commercials on TV, which I haven't seen since! So strange, and commercials regarding people who tried to kill themselves in the same way my cousin did! Very strange!!! Anyhow, God Bless You!! I trust you/we Are being cared for by God Always, even though we cant always feel it. ❤🌈

[@R0adkillRacc00n]

Hardship can have surprising consequences 👍

[@heidistonebraker7380]

Blessed Be 🥰

[@beautifulquitters8763]

Before the stroke he was verbally facile to an enviable point. I always thought he was famous and successful because he was so silver tongued. His stroke has humbled me. I can see that without his once silver-tongue he is nevertheless still as spiritually powerful as he always was.

[@tonyfrangos99]

more

[@mkartmkart6335]

When the mind dont find any words The heart communicates

[@108lukas]

I love your comment! Just one thing which isn’t very important but facile has two meanings and in reference usually to sport a person may be said to be facile at a particular thing however the other meaning which I believe you don’t mean to say is Ignoring the true complexities of an issue or Superficial (and now I am the humbled one as I realise how facile my focus on semantics is! Lol… sorry please indulge a crazy Aussie with a grammar nazi as a mother during childhood who developed a penchant for words so to speak!)

[@patbonny1175]

That confession lightened my soul too! Thanks for sharing.

[@stephenodea939]

A

[@emilylowrance7930]

Love transcends death. That's a big one.

[@1019jen]

I love this man so much. He is my guru. Though I have never met you. So grateful for him. He resonates in my heart and soul. I love you Ram Dass. I love you so much.

[@TheGinger5678]

my appointed guru too. he makes me laugh.smile..look for the gift in everything

[@sjihtraahfrohcs1524]

❤️

[@lisamuser8531]

💜

[@smileawhile3788]

So beautifully put. Just hearing him speak snaps me out of whatever negative illusion I'm entertaining and elicits the most profound Love from my whole being. Thank you so much for sharing. 😊🙏💞

[@giovanniantonio5268]

I think he understands

[@doctorcofrin851]

I love you Ram Dass! You will always be one of my greatest Masters. Watch over our planet. We need you!

[@expandingspirit3652]

What a Gem this video is. Baba Ram- We are walking each other home 🙏🏼✨

[@peterstankiewicz2474]

Getting deported in late 2019 I felt very much the same and still kind of do I'm working on it. When Ram said " when you have lost faith you feel nothing and when you a full of faith you feel grace".... That struck me like a lightning and I began to cry... 20 years in what" I still call home (USA) " I see now that maybe this deportation was a strange way of showing me Grace... Ive been miserable beyond comprehension missing my family my friends for over a year and a half the special places I used to go to in CT to meditate that tree I would sit next to on the beach in Milford CT all of it ... Idk what I'm saying anymore but I guess what I wanted to say is this morning I prayed for God to embrace me like I used to feel and after a year and half of feeling nothing this afternoon I heard Ram's words and then it happened...

[@robbrown4621]

You are not alone. You are never alone if you choose to find grace, to fill your self with grace, and to let your self be loved when pain is present. Thank you for your comment.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

[@summerocean5748]

I know what you were experiencing. Having the life I knew taken. But to go within, the heart fills us with that for which we search.💗

[@AE0N777]

Hello my friend. I hope that you are doing better. Grace is not always pleasant, like most things, it requires suffering. Thank you for sharing your story, and to the universe for showing you such profound grace. A grace which possesses a very deep understanding. Empathy is wisdom

[@CharlotteWhite]

Really can't believe he passed. Feels like he is with us in every moment. Sending love to you Baba Ram Dass!

[@heyitsmesaidthefigment4665]

he's still alive, in fact he is still with all of us, some aspects of him is in you

[@ryanpford77]

love always tell the truth

[@emilylowrance7930]

he is still here in us closer than a body can be

[@heyitsmesaidthefigment4665]

Emily Lowrance always :)

[@Erumim]

Now he is everywhere.

[@gedeonmaddkapp9912]

It was hard for me to listen to "post stroke" Ram Dass at first, but I'm getting hooked the more I do listen. There's no aggregate in what he says anymore...this is it. Now he sounds like my actual mind...much more slow..lol

[@JM-zq9em]

I too noticed I felt less comfortable when I first listened to him after his stroke. I found an uncomfortability with death and are physical fallibility in this world.. I felt reminded of my own " spiritual loftiness"that I had held about my ability to deal with the entropy of aging exhibited by his stroke. but I was given a lesson after further inspection of my discomfort listening to him after his stroke. Here was a man who I had listened to for years and always felt such great pure love towards and from....and now for some reason I couldn't see through the fears that I was projecting on his condition.. I had to remember to deal with it and not push it down lest it be a wall between me my brother.

[@fourtwentythree]

yeah i prefer younger ram dass though wisdom comes with age, the life of his stories pre-stroke are just so entertaining, rip baba ram

[@brazilobsessedone]

"The rehab hospital is a temple" of souls. My late Mom loved her nurses, doctors near the end of her life. Strong stuff for this coward of hospitals & doctors.

[@eisvogel8099]

He must have been so tired after this lecture. It humbles me. Thanks so much for sharing

[@JM-yd9sm]

‘Grace colours your life……it Spiritualises your life’……well said, and well ‘witnessed’ in your own incarnation Ram. Thank you for sharing you spirit with us all, and laying out the path so beautifully and with love. You are still with us.

[@Per_se]

The more I listen to you Ram Dass the more I feel you in my heart

[@mrfun9456]

Timeless words in a present moment...nothing but love ❤️

[@mkartmkart6335]

I know he didnt see himself as a Guru. But the last years of his life he affected me in such a way that i just have to say he was my Guru, and I am Loving Awareness

[@MiBackpacking]

Same for me 🙏🏼

[@integralsun]

I had assumed he had long ago released the identity with his corporeal body. The stroke and the ‘suffering’ that ensued was a wake-up call for him to go deeper.

[@justfruitchannel]

I wish I could have met you in person Ram Dass. You are so loved all over the world!

[@rickyireland3047]

May you be bathing in the bliss and peace of wherever you may be now, Ram Dass. I love you, and thank you for being a guiding light in my life. Then and now. Thank you, thank you. 💜🙏 xx

[@skrwdUNi]

this brings me to tears

[@voidmoon.]

Thank you so much Ram Dass for everything.. Ram Ram..

[@Rabbita92]

I love you Ram Dass. Thank you so much

[@pinkpeonyy]

Thank you so much for what you give us through your videos. It truly benefits me

[@superfuzzymomma]

Be Here Now, and later, Rams Dass's book on his Beloved Babaji forever changed my inner compass. Yet, still,I have not been able to get out of my own way! Nevertheless, it is such a privilege and a grace to be able to thank Ram Dass while he is still in this body. I sometimes think, what a wonderful cosmic journey we are all on!……but, unfortunately, I don't think it enough.

[@BBPalmer420]

That’s ok friend.. the greatest thing about be here now (for me) was the pure acceptance.. that where ever one is, is exactly where one should be, and that’s perfectly ok.. you don’t even need to get out of your own way because that is the way .. stay well ✌️

[@superfuzzymomma]

@@BBPalmer420 Friend, I am grateful for the reminder! Thank you☝

[@pinkifloyd7867]

''the stroke pushed me up into my soul, and that was very beneficial..'' @29:14

[@susansmiles2630]

Thank you! I love you, R!!!1am Dass

[@kellyjbryson]

Thank you Ram Das so much

[@kellyjbryson]

For your self loving heart and the example it’s giving me to help me right now deal with Parkinson’s. And thank you for I love that other people received from you and are now giving to me. You could say it’s your backwash of love of love. And thank you for your Fierce self examination paid you help me see through my ego With Fierce penetrating self reflection. And thank you for your humility vulnerability and perspective. Your self compassion he’s giving me so much we leave for my own suffering. And help me be compassionate towards myself when otherwise other one wise I would have a very cruel Inner dialogue. I love you. Kelly

[@BernardetteNBM]

you are a saint, ennobling our suffering. Bless you!

[@kisstigris]

I love to listen to you.

[@Emeeke33]

I feel like you are a more evolved, but kindred soul💜

[@Akkodha-]

I agree

[@croutendo2050]

Thank you

[@inbillsmind3048]

Going through the door frame that is created by the guru or focusing on the guru , it’s your choice ! One is temporary and one is ever flowing 👍

[@anmolkandel9943]

He is a grace to humanity ❤

[@BabaRamDassChannel]

Admin here (now) - totally agree!

[@danadedolph2530]

Whenever I listen to you my soul resonants and brings peace and perspective and openness Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and journey.

[@patlieber6484]

Dana DeDolph

[@Akkodha-]

Thank you,I wish you the same

[@colleenruiz6366]

I love you all

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

[@judithgfl]

Judy Guggenheim with Ram Das many times in Florida 🙏😊❤️

[@TheGinger5678]

I offer all my resentment, guilt etc as a gifts to God...inspite of the want to hold on...interferes w my moment" besides we are all connected....We are spiritual beings having a HUMAN experience. So it is all good.

[@boiledham]

41:20 On the souls passing through the temple to renew their hearts.

[@bodhiSwaha]

Yes, he was silvertongued, and that was taken as a gift to help free his ego. Jmo

[@mattamped9931]

“How did this happen to me?” We can share too much….

[@brazilobsessedone]

I'm horrified to see how much change Ram Dass has passed physically since I once attended his lecture in Denver East High School during my college years 1970s-into 80s decade. Yet he hasn't changed spiritually which is encouraging if heart-wrenching. I cant help but wonder if mescaline & LSD contributed to this stroke. But there's my ego getting in the way. I wish him well.

[@integralsun]

Probably related more to genetics and life style than hallucinogens taken in his 20s.

[@Insidewithmichaelpodcast-qz2xe]

Brazilobsessedone. Haha. Wow. As one who is obsessed with ram dss and Brazil, and who looks for signs. This is one.

[@dianneadairwesley4361]

IM here 💕✨

[@spiritualismIndia]

I realised something who is a successful person? My realisation is when u are born your body is dominant but as you grow you the real you within should slowly grow bigger and bigger till it dominates over the body if that happens in your old age than you are super rich duper successful

[@jlmur54]

Beautiful. Please fix the audio, or provide captions.

[@anthonyb1041]

"....dwelling in the heart...in the moment (40:50)" Be here now.

[@transformbuddhnetwork197]

🙏🙏🙏

[@nauticaltwilight113]

❤

[@seamuswarren]

The eternal now.

[@peterstankiewicz2474]

I took the plate of food and I threw it in his face 🤣🤣🤣

[@RGW333]

NOTE: pay special attention, look, listen, right about 32:55 about 33:3. Something really beautiful happens... Watch the video Time. 🕉️🕉️🕉️💖

[@VideographerExperience]

5 weeks of silence, *hummingbirds will land on you*

[@jolantadzialecka5054]

So you recovered completely ,Ram Dass?from thestroke?

[@roxxystarktheone]

LOVE TRANSCENDS DEATH

[@daisychain4096]

Im just getting into ram what would u say is the best video for me to learb about him?

[@BabaRamDassChannel]

Try some of his Full Lectures series! Hope this helps!

[@cindymac911]

How do i meet you? In person?

[@Estado_Alterado]

He died 🙏

[@TheForeverAddicted]

Where does Ram Dass ram das?

[@axellecadet6197]

Ca Daniel oie ro ???

[@ralphriffle1126]

Jesus is the son of God. " This is my beloved Son in whom I'am well pleased" Jesus said, " He that believeth in me, tho he be dead, yet shall he live" Jesus said, " I'am the truth and the life"

[@artby2wenty]

I didn't know Doc Brown was a spiritual teacher.

[@Akkodha-]

That’s funny

[@Akkodha-]

His next movie should NOW TO THE FUTURE

[@vast5853]

ram das admits he manifested his stroke thru clinging to an identity that always had parking spaces available edit: 1:17:31

[@Cosmic-junk]

Doesnt have proof of any of this. About incarnations, the soul, ect.

[@lukekiefer5964]

@ScriptureNest Ah yes, the book controlled by orgy-having popes of pre-enlightenment through post-enlightenment Europe. Now THAT, sounds real 😂😂🤮

[@jorgletchler1980]

He's not able to accept the reality of human being sad ending. So he must resort to superstitious spiritual thoughts.

[@waflikky2]

If you only knew..

[@gedeonmaddkapp9912]

If it helps, it helps. I hope all of us don't need a stroke to learn what he learned!

[@JueshWRLD428]

Are you sure you just cant accept the spiritual reality so you resort to being your boxed in human reality?

[@timmcdonald2177]

I was an atheist at one time, or thought I was. May you find the light in your heart. Namaste.

[@mkartmkart6335]

Sure superstitious spiritual thoughts has no wisdom the heart has

[@johnspringer4870]

Ram Dass is a Charlatan.

[@johnspringer4870]

@Salamanda I have read his books and studied Alpert’s spiritual pathway.

[@mkartmkart6335]

If, with that, you mean Spiritual wanderer, teacher and speaker... Yes, I agree. If you mean fake, that he was "harming their patient with dubious procedures" as the dictionary sais, that depends on the listener much, then Im sorry you feel that way. He isnt a fake to me !