8 min
Meditation
Just Be
Eight minutes of guided practice, short enough for a morning.
About the teacher
Ram Dass
American teacher and writer (1931–2019), born Richard Alpert, who taught psychology at Harvard before travelling to India and meeting Neem Karoli Baba. His 1971 book Be Here Now carried Eastern practice into Western counterculture, and he wrote twelve more over the four decades that followed.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
28 min
Meditation
Transformation Through the Breath
A guided sitting of nearly half an hour, led by Ram Dass with the breath as the thread.
62 min
Talk
In the Face of Chaos
A lecture from 1994 on staying present when the world around you is not calm.
68 min
Talk
The Advanced Course
A lecture from 1993 on what comes after the first opening, when the practice stops being new.
71 min
Talk
Path of the Heart
A full lecture from 1992 on bhakti as a way of living rather than a feeling.
48 min
Talk
The Pull to God and Guru
A lecture from 1975 on devotion and on what a teacher is for.
71 min
Talk
On Dharma
A full lecture from 1973, two years after Be Here Now, on what it means to do your own work rather than someone else's.
22 min
Documentary
Love Serve Remember
The foundation's own film about Ram Dass, his teacher Neem Karoli Baba, and the three words he kept returning to.
Path
The wider context.
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Love as the direct path
Bhakti
The path of loving devotion: surrender, chanting and remembrance as ways to dissolve the sense of separation from the divine.
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