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Ep. 184 – Tools of Balance

Ram Dass Here And Now

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Is Your Life Representing That?

"You and i are learning to stand nowhere to help people caught in standing," he says. "I've learned all these planes of consciousness through 25 years of drugs and meditation and yoga and gurus, all that stuff." He asks: 'Are you willing to walk a little bit slower so that all of us can walk along together?'

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You and i are learning to stand nowhere to help people caught in standing. Some i that too weird, or can you hear it?
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Because
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you and i sense that it's possible for a society to be compassionate, and what we have done to our poor, and what we've who or hungry, and the way in which greed has gone untrammelled. And we, you know, i work with the guatemalins through the save foundation, which is a really wonderful organization. And i encourage you all to learn more about it and help. And there's a table out there for a. One of the things we do is work in guatemala. And at one point in guatemala, i may a an guatemala, we found 14 villages that were near starvation in the alta plana. And our budget was so tight, we only had money to help four of them. And we said, well, we'll help you four this year, and we'll help the others next year. And they said, you don't understand. Whatever money you give these four, we'll divide among 13. Because in our holy book it says, when you're walking along and somebody falls, you help them up, and then everybody walks just a little bit slower. I'd like to ask you, as the affluent, tiny percentage of this society, of this world, are you willing to walk a little bit slower so that all of us can walk along together? And and is your life representing that? Is my life representing that? I've learned all these planes of consciousness through 25 years of drugs and meditation and yoga and gurus, all that stuff. And at first i'd get high and i'd say, wow, we're all one
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or it's
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all formless
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a.
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And then i'd come back and i'd say, well, that was interesting. And over the years of going up and down and up and down and up and down and in and out. Forget up, because it really isn't up and down, higher and lower. These aren't really that's that's highp because the earth is as high as any other plane. But going from plane to plane to plane to plane.

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