Ram Dass delves into identity, attachment, and the nature of reality. He shares insights on becoming nobody, expanded consciousness, and the impeccable warrior. Exploring the idea of 'eating it like it is,' he discusses standing in a place of acceptance amidst chaos and suffering.
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Eating It Like It Is Family Saying
Ram Dass recalls a New Hampshire family saying “Eat it like it is” after an Italian cook Angelo served his famous spaghetti.
The phrase became a family reflex whenever someone complained, used to accept things without complaint.
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Where To Stand To Love A Broken World
Ram Dass asks where you could stand on Earth today to "love it as it is" amid political, environmental, and social collapse.
He lists examples: fundamentalists, prison abuses, starvation every two seconds, unfit water and air, and nuclear threat to show the magnitude.
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Become Somebody To Become Nobody
Ram Dass describes cultural training to "be somebody" then later needing to enter "nobody training" to awaken.
He emphasizes you must first become somebody in society before you can shed that identity and realize nobodyness.
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Who are you? What are you doing here? In this classic talk about identity and attachment, Ram Dass asks where you could possibly stand in a world filled with pain and suffering to ‘eat it like it is?’
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In this talk from Austin, Texas, in the early 1990’s:
Ram Dass recalls a family saying from his youth, “Eat it like it is,” and asks how we can possibly apply it to the current world filled with pain and suffering.
Exploring the nature of identity, Ram Dass talks about how we have to become somebody in order to become nobody. He discusses his experiences with expanded states of mind and how the game shifted from how to get high to wondering why he came down.
Ram Dass talks about how the impeccable warrior is someone who exists on all planes simultaneously. He explores the nature of attachment and reads from Swami Ram Tirth, who helps us understand there is a place we can stand where we can see everything as the unfolding of law. This is the place where we can ‘eat it like it is.’
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“The signs point to Armageddon. It looks like it’s really hit the fan. Where could you stand that you could ‘eat is like it is?’ Or you could love it as it is? Where could you possibly stand? Where could you allow that to be what it is? What perspective, what vector view would you need to have? Who would you be if you were seeing it that way?” – Ram Dass
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