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Scale Cuts Panic About Change
- Ram Dass broadens perspective by comparing human history and cosmic time to show our apparent significance is tiny.
- This view reduces panic about change and invites humility when facing global shifts.
The World As A Divine Play
- Spiritual traditions frame the world as a play or dance (lila) where forms veil an unmanifest reality.
- That perspective lets suffering and beauty be seen as expressions of a larger unfolding.
Farmer's 'You Never Know' Parable
- Ram Dass tells the farmer-and-horse parable to show outcomes are unpredictable.
- The story illustrates that judgments about events are premature: "you never know."