The infinite cannot be contained by the finite. Jack has trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. Good luck on whatever you decide! I'm going to go meditate now. Now that I've grown up a whole lot of this book is just silly, but I appreciate how thought provoking it was to me as a kid.
The worldly population is on the verge of psychological and mental collapse. In the end, it cannot be explained it can only be directly experienced. As we talked I could see him registering where I was and his brain was scrambling to comprehend that Ram Dass, the spiritual teacher was standing in line at the gay porn theater. I think Dass could have added another couple hundred pages to the first part and still probably not fully described his experience. Some of it is worthwhile, but I can't sugarcoat it: It's pretty far out there. So, if reading red type against a brown background is not your idea of a good time, try the Kindle version.
The idea is that there is something beyond words - something that cannot, by definition, be explained by words - and therefore our thinking faculty to analyze, understand, and explain this something else is impossible. If you can't be happy now, you can't be happy later. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. No, I mean right now, while you're reading this. Fools will just look at the pretty pictures, and there a lots of them - super awesome illustrations. But what if objective reality can perceive itself? It was in India when a revolving door of concepts and stereotypes — a white, neurotic, closet homosexual, Jewish, success hungry, Harvard psychiatrist, traveled to India and had a spiritual transformation at the foot of his newly found guru, Neem Karoli Baba Maharaji. Ram Das is one of my biggest heros.
Such truths, deep and profound as the essence of the human experience itself, must be held on the tongue for a while to taste its fullness. And then people started to gather and I started to do this talking for a couple of years, at no charge, because I was no book, I was just doing it when people would drop by. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Anyway the Ram Dass manifesto was one of the books I selected. Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. You have to stay in your heart.
You must see that all beings are just beings. Gave it a three star, but in all honesty I hated and loved this book equally, though at different times. Triloka established itself as a critical leader in the development of world music and for 17 years was home to such artists as Krishna Das, Hugh Masekela, Walela, Jai Uttal and transformational media projects that featured Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, and Les Nubians. Human beings are tiny parts of this unimaginably vast organism which is all of existence in this time stream. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven.
Ram Das, originally named Richard Alphert, taught with Timothy Leary at Harvard in the 1950's. I didn't like it because it felt too brain-washy, cult-ish. I want to explore the distinctions between pain and suffering. Besides its message, I like how it challenges the notion of what an adult book is. Realize that the only thing that exists is the present and that not being happy in it is pointless.
Dying to oneself sometimes requires retreats, rituals, deep self-exploration, daily meditation, and disappearing for a while. Man, it's fun to flip through. It is the reflection of one man's spiritual journey and we as the reader are supposed to witness this journey through his meditations. Ram Dass takes the wisdom of the East, and wraps it in a package a Westerner can open. Everytime I buy it I eventually end up giving my copy to someone who needs it.
It was at this point when Maharaji renamed Richard Alpert as Ram Dass, which translates in English as servant of God. Still he wrote of his adventure in a powerful book titled, Still Here. It was one of many that my husband brought home from work and left around the house so someone would find it at just the right time. About this Item: Lama Foundation, 1978. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs.
With drugs, particularly pharmaceuticals, being so regularly abused in our culture, it is a salutary exercise to reconsider the sixties, when some psychoactive drugs, used considerately and independently of profit-driven corporations, turned millions towards the serious study of psychology, philosophy and religion. His father was a lawyer in Boston, and his mother was a lover and helper of charities. For a non-religious spiritually inclined person, this has a lot to offer in terms of the possibilities of expanding one's consciousness, and can inspire the beginning of a spiritually awakened life. In 1 month I'll have been clean 18 yrs. As human beings we have a choice. Ram Dass submitted the book to nine publishers who all rejected it on the grounds of it appearing to promote psychedelic drugs. Treibt ein Serientäter sein Unwesen? To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature.