
Ep. 25 – Suffering Part One
Ram Dass Here And Now
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Is Age My Enemy?
I can feel as i age, that the suffering would come if i held on to my youth. Do you see the inherent problem in living in a culture which worships youth? It's a hunting and gathering. And so the peak years ar, i don't know, 18 20 to forty somehn like thatand then from then on, it's all downhill. So it's just slowly going down and down and down. If down is measured by these very narrow values,. The issue is not the growing old. The issue is the clinging to model of anything like you cling to a model of what beauty is. I think there are myths that create evil because they increase paranoia and separateness
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