By Toni Bernhard — 2011
A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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This modern spiritual classic, presented as a thirty-day meditation retreat taught by Joseph Goldstein, offers timeless practical instructions and real-world advice for practicing meditation—whether walking or sitting in formal practice or engaging in everyday life.
Maui. January 2010 webcast. Someone asks Ram Dass about how to let go. He says to change your vantage point from your ego to your Soul. To stay in the witness, not the ego or the desires. He says to watch the show of your incarnation. He says to sit back from your ego thoughts.
1980's. Ram Dass gives lecture on internal and external suffering. He says that resisting our suffering creates more suffering for ourselves and for other people. We need to practice listening, and to observe the way the mind responds to somebody's story.
When Be Here Now was first published in 1971, it filled a deep spiritual emptiness, launched the ongoing mindfulness revolution, and established Ram Dass as perhaps the preeminent seeker of the twentieth century. Just ten years earlier, he was known as Professor Richard Alpert.
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