The Spiritual Journey - Ram Dass Full Lecture 1986

Ram Dass speaks at JFK University on the nature of the spiritual journey and letting go of attachments.
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[@Akkodha-]

You are the best thing that’s ever come to my life, you saved it and you saved me, I love you with all my heart and soul I hope one day to meet you in a different lifetime to thank you

[@john-carlosynostroza]

Me too. 🙏🙃

[@cydbott]

God in drag ❤

[@jaymarz663]

@@RiverGibbs 👌🏼

[@noneya9035]

This put tears in my eyes. I feel the same.

[@ObsidianCrocodile]

I love him too ❤

[@andalilo]

When he said “we are all here sweating” and at that very moment I was on the treadmill at the gym listening to him.

[@83sorin]

By here now

[@kmillard81]

he mentioned mysticism and Einstein as I was writing a post about mysticism and Einstein 😂

[@FriteVerte]

So many times i listen to his lectures and he mentions my exact revelations i had an hour or two prior. Its freakie freakie!

[@hamz__zzz]

Ram Dass is practically my gym buddy 😭 I always listen to him while working out

[@bluesteelthunder]

I hear you loud and clear, Ram Dass. 💜

[@peacefulwarrior5244]

I feel as though Im gonna have to repeatedly listen to this until it truly sinks in.

[@jonhoward8893]

You are not the only one my friend lol...but I think of it more s we can hear more as we get further along the path.

[@rainonastilllake6158]

He's not saying anything important. Its music, just enjoy it.

[@Theopengrove]

peaceful warrior I've seen hundreds of his talks and have begun a journey that has changed my entire life , keep listening and just enjoy .

[@heyitsmesaidthefigment4665]

it is already in all of us from the beginning to the end of this journey! it is the experience in which will unfold like a fractal in a star. It isn't the matter of doing something it just happens... and it can take life times, perhaps a millennia but it originates without purpose. It does not require value thus it can never dissatisfy its presence. peace is always here with us it just the matter of acceptance :)

[@IIEthanGamingII]

Ive listened to his talks many many times over and it does make more sense every time

[@123wordbird321]

i have listened to nothing but alan watts' lectures for many years. have em nearly memorized. was looking for another voice. googled "if you like alan watts you might like" and this guy came up. i like this Ram Dass fella right myaahhh. :) god stuff. i will now listen to everything he's published.

[@nils8584]

have you looked into terence mckenna? i assume you have. to me, him, Alan Watts and Ram Dass, they are the only kinda 'no nonsense' spiritual communicators/guru's I know of. If you stumble upon more I'd like to hear about them! lotsa love.

[@swarangodla8232]

try Sadhguru as well.. looks the part but do listen to him speak about stuff.. :)

[@HariOm-dp7um]

Happy seeeking... Then searching

[@ZONEDINN528]

Also look up: Mrs. Irina Tweedie, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Maata Lynn Barron. Prayers.

[@brettcorris1308]

I have as well and I'm seeing that on both alan and ram videos, the path is developing exactly as it should my friends

[@ikirakom]

I am in love with this man 🥺🪅🧘, I know his soul left his body, but his spirit is still teaching us ....🙏

[@heatherkozak2987]

I listen to these on repeat all the time. So thankful I can finally connect with something. Never fitting in took a toll on my soul spiritually. Thank you Ram Dass. You saved me.

[@harryschultz6951]

“We’re two awarenesses sharing the dilemma of incarnation together”🙏🏼❤️

[@MrManishvig]

Dear Ram Dass, I am a 41 + year old person who have been in touch with you since 6 months and you do a wonderful satsang -- to encourage us to move forward. God Bless you . wish i could meet you

[@benzysmommy]

Love you Ram Dass we’d be lost without you

[@BabaRamDassChannel]

We at the channel feel this same sentiment!

[@brookbergsma5089]

It’s when he responds to the children in the audience with the same energy and laughs n says “don’t worry you’ll forget” for me.

[@travis9260]

Hearing Ram dass talk about his 88-year-old father in this when he himself is turning 88 next year and the similarities are just fascinating.

[@kennethpalmatier8087]

Travis Hunt same thought i had✌☮☯️🕉

[@brandonhatton1680]

The pull of the world is strong today. Really missing you today Baba...🙏❤😪

[@britnie880]

He’s closer now than ever ❤️ when I think of him I can feel the love.

[@Conscious_Science_podcast]

So much love 💚💚💚

[@dandy2405]

Amazing! Love that guy!!!

[@OfficialJoeyC]

Here’s to being able to open my heart more🙏🏻

[@onesoullove1111]

The most amazing teacher love You Ram Dass ❤️

[@TheLeahfaith]

I love him

[@ozgursenturk11-11]

there is no him, it is you.

[@Akkodha-]

Same here,he saved my life

[@PikeyPirate23]

Me too 🙏

[@akakonoha]

I love you Guru Ram Dass. I don't know how to thank you. 🙏🏽🌺

[@nicom9298]

This lecture is AWAKENING.

[@howiseetheworld3581]

50:09 that is me in a nutshell even when I am not meditating, spending so much time in fantasy world in my head. Especially if I'm listening to music or if I am stoned it becomes very real and intense. So glad to hear that it doesn't just happen to me. Only found out about Ram Dass this week and I'm loving it. Thank you Russell Brand + Terrence McKenna!

[@wonderousearth8225]

Awe Somely Brilliant Teachings ❤ Thank You Beloved Ram Dass ❤🙏💙💜

[@BabaRamDassChannel]

We at the channel appreciate your sharing!

[@maloriemaywhovier8547]

back to the breathe

[@ikirakom]

Thanks!

[@tonypackham5421]

Oh my god he's talking about my life Wright at this moment of what is going on for me in my life . I really need this now .Thank you God bless you .

[@nln7ylm663]

Guru always comes in perfect time, love you❤️💫

[@amandamcgraw7656]

Love to you, Baba!

[@artofjourney]

You are every where

[@Gonzo_S_Thompson_esq]

Fav parts of his talks are the heavy swallowing and akward silent pauses combines with exhaling everyword has really made me more accepted now when I engage with the unenlightened

[@slowwco]

Ram Dass quote highlights from this video: “The more spontaneous the moment, the more fully we will be here together.” “In the old days, I used to have some estimate of when I’d get enlightened, but that has long gone.” “You don't go into the totality pushing away any part of your life.” “Even the hard parts are playful which is really strange. It starts to become like dancing, or floating, or surfing, or something like that.” “At first, there's this little teeny thread of consciousness, and it only happens now and then. You flicker into awareness that the worldly trip isn't quite what it's all about. And then, through a whole set of circumstances that are a process of evolution of the individual consciousness, that little thread becomes a string and the string becomes a rope. The percentage of time you get lost in the world starts to diminish, and there's a critical moment when it becomes less than 50%. As long as it's more than 50%, it still seems like you're caught in the world. And, then it starts to get down until pretty soon your faith gets strong enough that you are in essence a spiritual being who's living in the world-which is what Christ is talking about when he says you are in the world but not of the world.” “The way of things is just the way it's supposed to be.” “Every time your mind grabs hold of a model of who you are, where you're going-an expectation that it's going to be a certain way-you're just asking for suffering.” “When I talk about perfection, I'm saying open to just what is.” “There is a very deep Western predisposition to identify with your thoughts and think you are your thoughts-that who you think you are is who you are.” “Thinking by its nature thinks about something, it takes an object.” “You go into some way of being with what is where you become one with it-there's no longer subject-object, there's no longer thinking about, there’s no longer relationship. It is as if I am it.” “When you keep looking for the deepest truths of your being through your senses and your thinking mind-because that's what you're used to using-you don't find what you're looking for, and you always feel like you're one thought away from where the action is. You always feel slightly cut off from being in the moment, being here fully, because it is not what here is.” “The vast part of yourself is not conceptual and is not knowable by the usual methods of knowing-that in a sense you can be it, but you can't know it.” “Ever since I was a child, I was taught thinking is better-think more, you're better-and your analytic mind can solve all problems. And, look what a mess it has created for us because it doesn't recognize the deeper harmony and unity that exists across peoples, and between us and nature, all those levels.” “In the Eastern traditions, you spend your life learning how to extricate yourself from your thinking mind and from your identification with your senses.” “We're talking about the dying of who you think you are-then you are what you are.” “Watch how creative the mind is in keeping you being somebody doing something.” “There is only the rising and the falling of the breath. That's all there is in the universe. There isn't even you watching your breath rising and falling which is a thought about it.” “You look at your life, and the exciting part is that it's always slightly different, it always stretches, it's always better because it's more than you imagined it would be even at your best imagination. Fantasy isn't nearly as great as what is.”

[@Travishibachi87]

Thank you my friend 💚🙏

[@glynnphillips9703]

I love you ✨️

[@dnbjedi]

I cannot wait for A.I to have a ball with Ram Dass’ talks. I think this is his most powerful talk. Not to mention the best video footage ever…. Smh. If you ever wanted to meet Ram Dass in person this is the next best thing.

[@seamus9305]

Love and Light Ram Dass.

[@Aphexrain38]

This is what I needed to hear today :)

[@chloejeanbermudez4355]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom

[@ubushabu]

Love Maharaji

[@andrewhiggins1975]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@princessvideoklub]

fascinating

[@zatcharybelltucker735]

Ram Dass (funny high pitched voice), Ram Dass

[@slumpkiid3570]

Maharaji!

[@miloluther]

Wow so good

[@pldharnew]

Great talk 🙏🙏🙏

[@shaunaeddy4560]

Ahhhh I love you!!

[@ScorpioRising12]

Ram RamRam🙏🏽💕

[@jameserswell2161]

I also love Ramdass:)

[@dnbjedi]

I would Walk through Fire for Ram

[@Travishibachi87]

You already have 💚😊

[@dnbjedi]

​@@Travishibachi87 🙏

[@inthemomenttomoment]

Abracadabra, Perfection, hear Now 🎯!

[@Theopengrove]

I love you.

[@irishelk3]

Great guy.

[@MrJohnDocHolliday]

You §aved my life

[@elliothudsonhudsonhomesott2694]

Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you

[@FriteVerte]

45:15 i love that part where he converses with a baby xD

[@sayanpradhan17]

❤❤

[@peacepaint917]

Love

[@perfectlyimperfect6781]

Ahh his voice is like a teenager 😍

[@jaymarz663]

….

[@CrabbyPattydelight]

Rad Dass said western psychology just teaches you to rearranged the furniture in your prison cell, or the shrink, something like that, I agree, and it's expensive

[@crashnburnband]

Not very spiritual I know but does anyone else think Ram Dass looked like John Cleese?

[@jackolinemilne5697]

He also if funny too at excellent t times!

[@amandawalker1361]

That comment diverted me immediately to a memory of Faulty Towers. Wonderful memory. Many thanks 😁🙏😁

[@chrisk7091]

🙏❤️

[@anilkrishnan4894]

❤ 🙏 mind blowing,,, !! Cute Rum dum

[@spisfiskendin]

RIP

[@diggleda2952]

If a blink is one tenth of a second and the mind refreshes its awareness at one trillionth of a blink of an eye then it refreshes 10 trillion times per second or at 10,000ghz. Todays computers typically have a refresh rate (clock speed) of 5ghz…

[@transmutationdotse]

270.000 subscribers. Pfff... I will do something about that. Hold on!

[@garymorton2533]

Asawaysloveit

[@AdamWoodhams]

This cuts out mid-sentence. Is there a part 2 or a continuation?

[@fourtwentythree]

I searched, there are more parts 👍

[@RadDuderidesagain]

Perhaps enlightenment is not subject to our conceptions, estimations or experiences. Perhaps a whole other purification - refinement as its self

[@jitendrarajoriya8586]

Jai siya Ram 🙏 jai siya Ram 🙏 jai siya Ram 🙏 jai siya Ram 🙏 jai siya Ram 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@JeffreySiereveld]

Full lecture but it cuts off? Is there another one where it picks up?

[@fourtwentythree]

We want part 2 !

[@fourtwentythree]

I searched there are other parts posted 🙌

[@catmanyo]

It really hit me at around 45:15, when a buddha makes an appearance and Ram Dass responds accordingly with laughter, "You'll forget..." Such a poignant moment. And I hope the kid remembers again

[@jasonbourne4784]

46:20

[@protodhamma]

43:00 zen sesshin

[@Protector0ne]

There's something weird going on in this video. Occasionally you'll hear another man speaking in the background. At first I thought it was maybe a different seminar going on in an adjacent room, but suddenly I heard Ram Dass _repeating_ the other voice. You can hear it yourself around the 28:07 mark. Could it be that Ram Dass is repeating Emmanuel…?

[@fourtwentythree]

I think it’s also him but the audio got messed up and duplicated

[@cadearcher8887]

Why is someone telling him what to say?

[@fourtwentythree]

No I think the audio got duplicated it sound like home also

[@BrockLanders]

14:56

[@LG-lb7sf]

Dude, is something feeding him the lecture, can you hear the audio before he speaks, what is that?

[@nuttyleo43]

@SoftserveSodium nah you can clearly hear another mans voice, and then see ram dass taking a sometimes 5 times to listen to that guy has to say and then he repeats it, i tried to search this up on why he has another guy lecture for him like this but nothing came up, good lecture ofc but i wanted to know the reason why. kinda feels not sincere?

[@fourtwentythree]

@@nuttyleo43I listen closely and the cadence is the same so I believe the audio got duplicated

[@AroundTowniCome]

Rip jfk University

[@alexdelapaz22]

26:40

[@mialsmcmurray7717]

woke afffff

[@gideonsikk8733]

Much of Einsteins works didn't follow the scientific method...just wizardry....Great talk though

[@chrislaro1396]

luv the buddha mind in the sound of a cricket...bottom line? If u wake up and think ur existence is more vital and more sacred or divine than a dung beetle or a shit stick, then I dare say - go back to sleep. Aho.

[@Blades729]

U sir are a weirdo. Have a great day.

[@bobbylinton9342]

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[@Travishibachi87]

Could you repeat this so that it's actually able to be understood? This is just a jumble of words.

[@curtisknudson5802]

This is an honest snooze fest. Osho completely exposed Ram Dass desire to be deceived. Dass was completely duped by a women pretending to be his Guru. I won't disagree that he's incredibly entertaining. But he doesn't have "It". Love listening to him, and quite frankly I love him. But he never obtained nirvana, enlightenment, or the "ultimate". Which he would agree with. Still, it's glaringly obvious that he's simply an effective articulator to the west of a very ancient Indian tradition.

[@turiya9526]

And Osho had "it" is it?

[@CurtisKnudson]

@@turiya9526 there is no doubt in my mind that OSHO was extraordinarily enlightened.

[@turiya9526]

@@CurtisKnudson okay. Definitely must be true if you say so. Peace buddy.

[@fourtwentythree]

Osho 😅 the dude with the cars the dude that called that woman a ‘perfect bitch’

[@Travishibachi87]

If Ram was a charlatan then Osho was an even bigger one. Osho ended up being the leader of a giant cult back in the 80s of his own volition. Nothing more than a power trip to satisfy his own ego. Osho was a fraud plain and simple.

[@JM-yg6ps]

Thanks!