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Ram Dass talks about suffering on August 9, 1987.

Ram Dass recorded this talk on July 20, 2003 about two old sadhus stories of Baba, and he is accompanied by Shivaya. Bhajan is Jai Gurudev by Uma Reed.

If you missed the Love Serve Remember Retreat last spring with Ram Dass and friends in Hawaii, this is your opportunity to listen to the almost eight hours of dharma talks from the wonderful event. BetterListen! is quite proud to offer the complete set of these recordings. The BetterListen! version has been digitally edited and remastered - for your listening pleasure!

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In this amazing program, Beyond Success: Finding Balance in Business, internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Ram Dass reflects on the basic questions of how to do business in a conscious, more mindful, and balanced way. He explores the idea that commercial and conventional success can be self-limiting.

In this lecture from 1975 "Stages of a Journey", Ram Dass discusses our journey through plains of consciousness and degrees of fate towards simplicity and quietness - to a kind of joy that is beyond time - a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are. It is a journey that involves the transformation of our beings such that our thinking mind becomes our servant rather than master.

In 1966, two authorities on LSD—Richard Alpert, PhD, AKA Ram Dass, and Sidney Cohen, MD—spoke out on the merits and dangers of the psychedelic drug as acclaimed photographer Lawrence Schiller documented the experiences as they were happening. This Commemorative Edition of LSD looks back at the public’s use of LSD in the 1960s and features a new introduction that explores the book’s relevance to today’s psychedelic renaissance.

This special collector's edition offers over 7 hours of compelling stories, lectures, meditations, and actual practices from one of the 20th century's most beloved spiritual figures. For over 30 years, Ram Dass has touched thousands of seekers with his personal search for greater truth. But, in 1997, a debilitating stroke left him struggling to speak again to the generation he so inspired. Experiments in Truth preserves his teachings for his followers and for a new generation seeking the path to inner consciousness. Each of the 8 lectures in Experiments in Truth is a gem of humor, insight, and intelligence, which will bring inspiration to people of all faiths and walks of life.

Recorded in 1980 in San Francisco, Ram Dass gives a glimpse into one of his more challenging experiences as a teacher. His humanity and humor come through in this transcribed excerpt from his workshop on relationships.

Ram Dass asks us to consider the ways in which our culture’s pervading myth of unbridled individualism has generated the destabilizing forces confronting us. "Injustice is rooted in a frightened heart." To remain open to the tremendous suffering we encounter requires an exquisite balance of the rational mind and intuitive heart.

In Cultivating Intuitive Faith and True Surrender, the second program in the Cultivation series, Ram Dass is joined by Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Rameshwar Das, Mirabai Bush, Raghu Markus, and special guest KK Sah, a close Maharaji devotee, to explore the nature of faith beyond the mind and surrender as it’s known in the Bhakti tradition.

Experience Ram Dass, one of the most inspirational and accessible teachers of our time, give a full-length talk on compassion, suffering, and the nature of reality. This full-length program is a wonderful opportunity to be with Ram Dass at this Seva Foundation benefit taped in 1985 at Julia Richmond High School in New York City.

The Blessing of Mortality workshop with Ram Dass, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Frank Ostaseski. How do we overcome the fear of death? What techniques can we use to bring ourselves into boundlessness, to come into the realization of the truth of impermanence?

A March 16, 2003 talk by Ram Dass about his visit to the healer called "John of God" in Brazil.

In this fascinating transcribed excerpt from Consciousness, Aging and the New Millennium, Ram Dass - beloved teacher and author of the seminal work Be Here Now - explains to workshop attendees how absolutely any experience, even driving a car, can be used to expand awareness and awaken spiritually.

Better Listen presents Sacred in the Every Day, by Ram Dass. Recorded in 1987 in Great Britain.

This wonderful program offers true insight into Ram Dass’ thoughts on a variety of topics that have informed his worldview and subsequent teachings. Recorded in October of 1968 at the Seminar House in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this much beloved teacher talks about his own spiritual teachers and other gurus and their impact on his own beliefs; the concept of “Be Here Now” - which became the title of his seminal and renowned book published three years after this talk; the practice of yoga; the use of psychedelics like LSD; and other compelling topics.

Ouvrez votre cœur à une vie remplie d'abondance, libérée de la peur de la mort. "Vieillir en pleine conscience" est une inoubliable séance d'apprentissage avec Ram Dass, l'ancien professeur de Harvard dont les enseignements sur l'amour, la compassion et le sacrifice ont été internationalement reconnus. Dans cet enregistrement public, Ram Dass met en lumière l'une des grandes questions de notre temps : la peur de la vieillesse et de la mort.