From Ram Dass, the legendary spiritual teacher and bestselling author of How Can I Help? and Be Here Now, an intensive course that challenges you to awaken and start living your daily life as a great spiritual event. To find fulfillment and liberation today, teaches this former Harvard professor, you do not need doctrines or dogmas. By learning simple meditation practices and how to take compassionate action in the moment, you can find a way through life’s confusion to true awakening. Here are more than eight hours of Ram Dass’ favorite teaching stories, meditations, chants, and insights, gathered over a lifetime of study in Eastern and Western philosophies. Spiritual Practices and Perspectives for Daily Life is the ideal resource to inform and uplift your life and our world.
Spiritual Practices Highlights:
Trying vs. being • Ego development and the need for power • The moment of awakening • Chanting exercises • Cultivating the connection with God • Breathing meditation • The purpose of meditation • Mindfulness vs. concentration in meditation • Meditation exercise with prayer beads • Oneness, the little mind, and the overmind • Threat to the planet • Finding God and the path of service to all life • Honoring the heart and the mind • Compassion, wisdom, and the evolution of human consciousness • Much more.
