1. A Teacher is Found Wherever You Are When You’re Ready for that Teacher “As far as teachers are concerned, a teacher is found wherever you are when you’re ready for that teacher. If you’re aware enough to ask the…
Watch how your mind judges. Judgement comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The…
In the summer of 1989 Ram Dass did a retreat called “The listening Heart”. The retreat focused on spiritual practice in daily life and during the question and answer section of the retreat someone asked Ram Dass “What’s the difference…
“There is a story about an old Zen monk who was dying, who had finished everything and was about to get off the wheel. He was just floating away, free and in his pure Buddha-mind, when a thought passed by…
I recently posted an article by Ram Dass HERE that stirred up some emotion. Seems like many of us really connected with the same line: “So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when…
A long term favorite wisdom teacher for me, Ram Dass, has this way of speaking directly to me. The trouble is, most everybody who loves and follows him feels the same way. Universal principles and common experiences seem to penetrate…
Rummaging around the used section in the basement of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco a couple of decades ago, I found my first copy of Ram Dass’s infamous manifesto, Be Here Now. I was totally broke but bought it anyway,…
I’ve just never bought into this idea that my external surroundings had much to do with my spiritual health or happiness…. “Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from the outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not…