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Ep. 175 – Ram Dass x Alan Watts: From Separation to Unity, Intuition and Trust
Ram Dass Here And Now
Why Meditation Doesn't Have a Purpose
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparabilityfrom the whole universe. It's a kind of grooving with the eternal now, and brings us into a state of peace where we can understand that the point of life,. the place where it's at, is simply here and now. And what that requires is that we shut up. That is to say, that we interiorly silent and cease from the interminable chatter that goes on inside our skulls. The trouble with religion as we know it is that it is so mixed up with grim duties. We do it because it's good for you. Well, meditation, when correctly, has nothing to do with
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