Be Here Now

by Ram Dass

He had just sort of wiped out my whole game.

And what started to blow my mind was that everywhere we went, he was at home.

And my mind just gave up. It burned out its circuitry . . . its zeal to have an explanation. I

needed something to get closure at the rational level and there wasn’t anything.

As they say in the Sikh religion—Once you realize God knows

everything, you’re free.

Because who we are is behind all that.

“If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets.”

“If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather.”

These were his ways of teaching me about how

motivation affects pe...

“Dislodging a green nut from a shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the

lightest tap will do it.”—Ramakrishna

Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe.”—de Lubicz

“Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone that asketh receiveth;

and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”—Jesus

But a renunciate no longer thinks that he is his desires.

“By letting it go it all gets done The world is won by those who let it go.

Only when you have evolved far along the path will you

remain conscious throughout the period of deep sleep.

“dreams” are merely experiences which we are having on planes other than the physical plane.

At one end of the continuum is meat—the preparation of which obviously includes the killing

of an animal which has a rudimentary self-consciousness. It thus experiences fear and releases into its system adrenalin and other chemicals from the

endocrine glands which are not helpful for meditation. At the other end of this continuum are fruits wh...

gift for our...

The vibrations of the person preparing the food enter into food cooked over fire.

“If a person eats with anger, the food turns to poison.”

Are all thoughts part of the illusion? Yes.

habits of thought learned unconsciously, running off mechanically

We function under the fallacy (cogito ergo

sum) that we are our thoughts and therefore must attend to them in order for them to be realized.

Sanskrit is the root of the Indo-Aryan languages of which English is a part. It is a language that was evolved consciously, i.e., each sound syllable

resonates in a specific chakra.

as they fall away, you at first experience loss, emptiness and despair in your life . . . a deadened meaninglessness.

And every desire, no matter how perverse it may seem, is an attempt to get to the light.

“Heaven arms with Love those it would not see destroyed.”

describing the noted thought or state in terms of its purpose, its suitability, the way in which it relates to spiritual practice, and finally in terms

of its total impersonality.

help you to see the impermanence of thought, the way in which it perpetuates suffering, and the fact that it does not

in any way imply the presence of an ego or “I” who thinks it.

The simple technique of bare attention is very powerful.

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself:

What time is it? Answer: Now.

Say it until you can...

This is an exercise to bring you to the ETERNAL PRESENT . . . where it all is.

Reflect on the thought that if you are truly Here and Now— (a) it is ENOUGH, and