as corny as it sounds these videos really help me not off myself..

I’m paraphrasing here, but I deeply appreciate these words I once heard from Ram Dass on addiction. “Don’t try to overcome your attachment/addiction. Rather, be patient (by remaining in the present moment) and eventually the addiction won’t be so interesting to cling to - and it will fade.” I have come to learn this truth through my direct experience with addiction. Bless you all, and know that it gets better. 🙏🏽❤️

I am at my 5th relapse since I've become aware that recovery is indeed possible for us addicts and I'm driving myself mad trying to understand what it is that I am not doing right that leads me to keep relapsing. It's despair that brings me to this video and I comment today with the hope that future me can come back and look at that comment and see what, if anything, has changed. I wish nothing but the best for future me, I hope we're okay.

Here's how addiction began with me... "I took drugs because of a deep longing for mystical fulfillment. I was starving metaphysically. I was so hungry I couldn't differentiate food from poison."

I commented on this video a year ago but I wanted to update: I’m a peer recovery coach now. I help others with their own battle of addiction now with my own stories of how I got through it. That’s my old karma running off. It does get better. Develop the observer. I often use RD’s words: “you don’t need a bus ticket to Detroit when you’re already in Detroit”. The process ever continues. I love you all. ❤

As a woman who has been by choice celibate and single for 8 years, Baba Ram Dass speaks to me. I may or may not find an individual willing to journey with me though love without physical intimacy. I spent many years doing quite the opposite, only to find when passion had faded that I was left with a human I barely knew, and often didn't even like. This has been the failure of relationships. The backwards culture that has caused so much grief. I am learning to love myself and accept my aloneness. His teachings on aging are timeless and are helping me so much.

35 seconds in and I'm bawling over his kindness in acknowledging every human in saying "those who have a home" 😭😭😭

"Don't worry about the addiction; it'll fall away when it'll fall away."

The first 13 minutes of this talk is a blueprint to overcoming vice. Thank you Ram Dass. I feel you through the veil.

Wow! I have autism. My ability to communicate with words is limited. When asked about the woman's co-dependent relationship with God I wondered how Ram Dass would form his communication into words to answer her question? He had to think but his ability to explain and communicate so deeply is astounding. Maybe I am not progressed enough because I miss him but he is still around smiling at everyone. I can't put that into words how I know this but I feel it is so. He continues to spread love and joy. His videos are pleasant reminders. Thanks.

Great way to start the morning. To all who see this, I wish you peace and stillness in your minds.

"Until you can find the place within yourself to be at peace without having what you want, THEN you are in the optimum position to get what you want." Wow.......

Love when RD acknowledges the babies in the audience when they chime in.

So grateful for this today. Living the first day alone after my ex-partner left me and this has kept me company during the quiet moments. Thank you for the lessons!

This man, and the wonderful people in these comments… What a soulful spot to hang out. Thank you, each of you, for sharing. 💕

After I lost my son…. My mom took my daughters… turned them against me… I turned to Buddhism because it was the only thing that gave me relief and control. I fall asleep listening to Ram Dass and I read “We’re all doing time” by bo lozoff.

I love You Ram Dass🤍 and all watching this video! We are One.

The opening to this talk really speaks to me. I've been dealing with emotional eating for most of my life. I'm glad he brought that up in the context of addiction because that's what it truly is. And that cycle of indulgence and guilt is so real. I'm still stuck in it currently but I'm trying every day to change my perspective and view it the way he describes here.

Ram Dass was and still is a gift. His teachings have brought such peace, tranquility and love to my life/soul. Blessed be ❤

2:41 “It might be a moment of surfing- When you transcend the dualism between you and nature”

Incredible answer to the woman's question with co dependency... also i gott point out her voice was beautiful I love the way she spoke and articulates ♡

That woman with the question about the relationships has the most lovely voice

I never thought I would detach from thc but I am...it's so odd to desire chasing freedom in my pure form. Thank you Ram dass you came to me at the right time ❤

What a brilliant answers to complex questions! I was a member of AA for years but had to take the spiritual part of my recovery much further than anything AA could offer.

I haven't heard any words as true. I've been starved of affection for a while now. I feel like in this lifetime it just isn't in the cards I've been dealt. So I cling to people whenever I can. Trying to feel something, anything. Even if what I feel isn't reciprocated, I like to live in that fantasy for as long as I can. If anyone out there feels alone, I'm with you in spirit. Don't give up on living because someone might be depending on you to help themselves stay alive.

This man has helped me transform my life , I just wish I could have discovered these teachings as a teenager 😉👌🏻☝🏻❤️

This is the single best and accurate approach to addiction I've ever heard. Thaank you !

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Baba Ram Dass. You are still HERE. Thank you 🙏 for this upload. Namaste 🙏 world PEACE!!!!! Please 🙏 Homo sapiens sapiens we are ALL ONE! Stop the wars! Stop the killings. We are one human race. I love you forever ♾️ Kris Edward. Valdez.

How intelligent Ram Dass is...! What a well thought out answer to that girl's question such an impressive intellect

I love Ram Dass so much ❤

wow 😍 ram dass what a legacy you have left us

If you only watch one of his videos, let it be this one 🙏

So uplifting and gentle...your message is a balm to my broken soul.

I loved every segment, the one about releasing your personal history is so resonate right now. Although I don’t have stacks or boxes of photos and a fire to burn but instead thousands of hours worth of videos and tens of thousands of photos stored on my devices, stored on hard drives, and I think, for what? Why do I feel better without it but letting go is so hard, as if it will erase my spirit.. it won’t! “I keep discarding stuff… I don’t know why I had it in the first place”

I love you Ram Dass, when I’m at the point where I lose myself, I will think of you to bring me back 🙏🏻 God bless

This discussion is so important and amazing! So relevant and deep. Jai Jai Sri Hanuman 🌺🙏🏼

What a brilliant guy, what a wonderful spirit Ram Dass was and will always be. Thank YOU.

i’ve been listening to you lately baba i just love your teachings. you make being human understandable

Such a beautiful talk. Thank you for the share!

Love you Ram Dass ❤️ thank you

RAM DASS IS THE GOAT of all aspects of awareness!

43:05 - “Until you can find the place in yourself that could be at peace without having what you want, then you are in the optimum position to get what you want. Because until then, your need for it is creating some thing and everyone you meet, that is reducing the potential of that relationship to be meeting a true being of spirit in the right place.”

Thank you for uploading this❤

This Q and A group contemplative awareness that Ram Dass immersed within is phenomenal, deeply profound, and valuable. Incredible.

wow. his wisdom is absolutely wild. thank you for sharing

Deepest Gratitude 🌹💜🌹🙏🏼

I'm so grateful for these talks.❤

Love this guy. Even his voice is so true

Ramdas is so intelligent. All the answers are so amazing. ❤️ Blessings.

Such powerful words. ❤

That was fantastic. Love his humour, it's a beautiful balance between being childlike and the teacher. 🙏🏻💜🇨🇦

Even after all these years, thank you for still helping the world and people like me. This was a piece that could not have come at a better tit was as if by god sent ❤❤❤

Wow so wonderful and much needed by me now!

I really needed this for the last week omg it’s my life he speaks I have been to one rehab was shit came out with nothing but what knew when I went in I didn’t need a dam conversation about the effects of drugs and alcohol… so funny right 4 years on I watched this last week is it gonna change me ..what it does is fills my heart with acceptance of myself or the beginning of it for once all I ever wanted was to know I’m okay

I have been married 21 years to a wonderful man. Got widowed at age 51 on 5-10-2019 my 4 year sobriety. I met a widowed man in AA that wanted to be my friend. He was a narcissist manipulator and I was an empathetic needed woman 👩🏻 yesterday I became homeless and this man continues with his 42 years of sobriety. I AM now 8 years sober and still work in health industry skilled nursing 😊I see these patients in beds surrounded by their stuff and it saddens me to think that humans can experience such lives. I will keep letting go of attachments 😮

Like I have said, when you are truly enlightened everything is a meditation. When God asked me, what side of the blade are you on. I answered, on the side of the righteous my words are my sword. There is nothing in the Universe that is not a double edged sword. A cup of water can sate and drown. Your shadow can comfort you or trip you. The singularity created us. I was born March 11th in Bethlehem. Schlama means peace. Malkuth means Heaven. Hubba means love. It's the slang of Hebrew. Yeshua of Nazareth spoke both. God told me to make Israel one. It means to bring peace and reconciliation between Jew, Christian, Muslim; cousins by Abraham. L'chaim. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. Sincerely, your local Jewish Sufi Christian Buddhist mystic otherwise known as Hey You.

Ram Dass brings me home ♥️

Ive stopped drinking 9 months ago without much effort. Was bordering addiction somhow. Looking back, this is the one video that helped most. First 15 minutes will do it once you understand

So clear, authentic and beautiful. This is Grace, You are that Grace. Thank you my beautiful beautiful friend. You are It!

Thanks Ram Dass. Love you

Can we just talk about what a beast Jung was? The daringly honest soul of a professional who will directly tell you “Nothing will help. Go see if you can get suckered into a religion,” could tell everyone what they truly lack. I’m humbled. I’d choke on that sentence til I coughed out a lie.

Ram Dass is a friend to all who seek Truth. . .yup

So relevant to what I am dealing! Thank you

Wonderful

"Allow yourself the sadness,allow yourself the loss, allow yourself the grieving ,allow yourself the not having what I want & cry & do whatever you need to to do..so you can say ok hear I am"....

"when you're in Detroit, you don't have to take the bus to Detroit" -Ram Dass

I use crocheting as a return to balance and self realization.

Thank you dear Ram Dass.....

Thank you so much sir… God help us all please… Through the hard times and the good times…

My favourite channel on KZfaq by far ❤❤

Needed this one today gonna stop at around 15 mins and come back

Real doctors real people. Thanks

Thank You ❤️Baba Ram Dass❤️

I think this is my favorite of Ram Dass

So good. Thanks for sharing

bring mindfulness to everything

“That’s all I am. Your own answer.”

With a name like Rammed Ass I gotta listen cause this guy has to know how to psychologically overcome

What an amazing, wise, humorous man ❤

wow awesome podcast thanks

RD’s defining intimacy, love as they relate to sex. The wise explanation is so beautifully laid out.

Thanks you Papa Ramdass

What are you without your personal history?!? A question out of Aura-surgery actually ❤ 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽#ramdass ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You calm my mind and make me see my real self in the oneness! I love you from the bottom of my heart 💜 Thank you 🙏🏽 for being with us, you wonderful soul ❤

Thank you

😂 🤣 thank you for my favorite gag this April 1st! And kudos for an extremely effective demonstration of the common flaws in many AI automatic conversions! From noses, ears, glasses, to reflections, background details, etc... That said, it also probably wouldn't be completely unwatchable!

Thanks for your tip

Wow! RD really lays it out from technical language to common simplicity. Funny I got more in touch with God than I ever did right now. RD is saying things that many other preachers,holy men, and teachers have told me...the difference is I'm listening. Thousands of blues players playing the same song. Recovery for addiction is a wide path with many choices...pick one and run with it...I did...still going.

Brilliant

It is better to become Christ than to visit Him. Wow. Just wow.

"The basic root of suffering is thought, then clinging of the mind to **things which Seperate ONE from ALL OF IT." >> Thoughts/ Feelings/ Action= personality. Clean up thoughts, start here. (Look up Dr. Joe Dispenza, his work is practical, a real game changer) We are consumed by thoughts. It is a wicked conditioning. I've been practicing changing my "beliefs" for almost 20 years. Started in mid 20's when faced with life/ death. Had to surrender as allopathic medicine failed me. I haven't been "sick" since. Had to break away those chains of the mind enslavement. Daily practice is crucial. Stay thirsty my friends. 💝

Thanks!

I like your wisdom and humor

Brought 2 us by the good guys (LSRFoundation. Thanks guys !) nice, still B4 the stroke(s). Not the early 70s, so a bit more polished. That goldylocks period. I only followed him in early '70s - late, so missed this. Last 1/2 hr, 15 min he burns SO Brightly - really fulfilling his purpose there~

Thank you!❤

I remember Ram Das when he wore a suit and was a guest lecturer at Suny at Buffalo. He spoke of his dying mother who he wanted to give LSD. He was impressive then, he's still relevant.

There is an innocence in these older recordings I remember the adults of my childhood I was born in the mid mid 70's There is a noticeable difference now I'm thinking these people could n oil t imagine how much life was going to change with technology I notice many videos with ram dash speaking and nobody is holding a cell phone and a part of me misses those days but also it's allowed me to ffg ind Ram Das I don't have the money he had to go off to India so I'm able to to get some of it through the technology now available but I do miss the way people use ti connect more in the community when out and about

thankyou,Ram ~Das🤍🦢

This is unparalleled. I had the privilege of reading something similar, and it was truly unparalleled. "The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Living Guide" by Matthew Cove

Like no other❤❤❤so familiar and poignant and …

This one is also on his podcast, it's episode 186 ❤