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Wisdom from Suffering - Ram Dass

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Ram Dass speaks about how pain and suffering can lead to wisdom.

http://www.ramdasstapes.org/
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  • beautiful.

  • There is so much gratuitous suffering. It is overwhelming.. I can't gloss over all of that and say that it all tends to edify and enlighten. To shake a baby with malaria in the jungle. To fathom every heartbreak in a city any night. To know that goon squads are killing pregnant women in villages everywhere. What has humankind learned from this? The tragedy is re-enacted day after day with no fundamental change. We all suffer, mostly in vain. What is needed is a sense of common humanity.

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  • It sucks how Pleasure and Positivity cannot exist without Suffering and Negativity....

  • @suunritadasi What's frightening is that people lash out at others who are trying to free them from their own prisons. It seams not many are looking for freedom and truth. And of curse that is part of their brainwashing.

  • @VeggiePower303 frightening isn;t it

  • I very much love and appreciate the talks on death. it has a very calming effect. Thank You

  • Death of the ego allows consciousness.

  • @clickswitchh

    It's OK. It's as real as life. Use every moment to awaken and perhaps you

    will eventually lose this fear.

  • Jai Jai Sri Baba Ram Dass.

  • @sabymoon Yes, if your lucky enough to be aware at the moment of dying, as bhagavan das says: " happy life happy death "

  • @clickswitchh there are many deaths, like a peeling away of an onion. He doesn't always speak about death. He was instrumental in founding a conscious dying movement. In Buddhism, at death, there is a chance to leave the cycles of reincarnation. Many believe that you can be aware and participate in a good death. When people who are suffering die, it is a relief and a miracle. The miracle of death. Being open can feel dangerous and hurt.

  • I think ram dass is great, only thing i dont like is like the focus on death, guess i have some attachments or fears connected to it, freaks me out

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