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Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart Kindle Edition

by Ram Dass (Author), Rameshwar Das (Contributor)

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Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening. More commonly, it happens when we polish the mirror of the heart with daily practice—and see beyond the illusion of our transient thoughts and emotions to the vast and luminous landscape of our true nature.

For five decades, Ram Dass has explored the depths of consciousness and love and brought them to life as service to others. With Polishing the Mirror, he gathers together his essential teachings for living in the eternal present, here and now.

Readers will find within these pages a rich combination of perennial wisdom, humor, teaching stories, and detailed guidance on Ram Dass' own spiritual practices, including:

Bhakti Yoga—opening our hearts to unconditional love
Practices for living, aging, dying, and embracing the natural flow of life
Karma Yoga—how selfless service can profoundly transform us
Working with fear and suffering as a path to grace and freedom
Step-by-step guidance in devotional chant, meditation and mantra practice, and much more

For those new to Ram Dass' teachings, and for those to whom they are old friends, here is this vanguard spiritual explorer's complete guide to discovering who we are and why we are here, and how to become beacons of unconditional love.

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File Size: 492 KB
Print Length: 196 pages
Publisher: Sounds True; Reprint edition (August 1, 2013)
Publication Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
ASIN: B00E6EFGM8
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- #509 in Yoga (Kindle Store)
- #533 in Occult Spiritualism
- #1503 in Spiritual Self-Help (Kindle Store)

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Clayton

Well, well, well ....

May 17, 2014

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I thought, "...well here we go again, another Ram Dass book.
How wrong I was to harbor such a limiting supposition.
Let me explain, please.
I've probably read all of the Ram Dass books starting back in the 70's with Be Here Now.
And I've enjoyed reading the Ram Dass books because, after attending several of his public appearances, I fell in love with the message he presents and I've always wanted to know more, more about the love he teaches and lives.
Now here is my bottom line:
Polishing The Mirror is not just 'more of the same'.
It is a summary, yes, of what has been presented before; but, more than that, it offers, in one chapter, chapter 8, all you need to know to reshape your life into a balanced, aware, loving living experience.
Maybe you have to be familiar with all of Ram Dass prior books before you can understand, before you can appreciate, before you can "practice" what he teaches in chapter 8, and maybe you don't.
Maybe just reading and accepting and practicing what chapter 8 presents is all that's necessary to make you a new person. The person we all would like to be.
I can't say. But I can attest that I'm so happy, so glad that I didn't pass this up as just another Ram Dass book. I'm happy that I bought and read Polishing The Mirror, especially chapter 8.
If Ram Dass never authors another book, and I hope that will not be the case, this one book is enough.
And if he does write another, I'll probably buy and read it but I will always come back to chapter 8 in Polishing The Mirror for the final answer to my question, "what must I do to be happy"?

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Francie Nolan

Inspiring Book - Helped Push Me Into My Soul

December 17, 2017

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I loved this book. The most inspiring part for me was the idea of how to deal with suffering. I'd often read that one reason we have pain is to develop compassion. Another is to give other people the chance to evolve by helping us. I have a lot of pain that keeps me up at night and keeps me from being able to do a lot things. I would wake with pain and think, Why? What's the point of this? There's no one here with me so I can't be giving anyone else a chance of evolving by being with me. And I have plenty of compassion, so it can't be for that. I'm wasted, unable to help anyone.

Ram Dass said that suffering can push you into your soul. The ego is caught up in the storyline of this incarnation, lost in the details of the melodrama, the blame and injustice. It identifies with the pain whereas when you are pushed into your soul, the eternal part of you, you can be a witness to the pain. You're in the body and with the pain, but you aren't the pain. That works for me.

I had a flashback to a previous incarnation years ago when I was doing Focusing. I can't think of the author's name now, but that's the name of the book. It's a great sort of mindful focus on what's going on in your body. Anyhoo, I was blown away by a flashback resulting from that practice, because I didn't believe in reincarnation up until then. It helps to remember this is just one of many lives we're going through. Find a way to evolve from the pain, to benefit. It is making me quiet inside after a lifetime of noise.

Ram Dass tells so many fascinating stories in this book, so much about his life. He says he lost faith for a few years after he had his stroke. It's easier to suggest - witness the pain - then to do it. But it works and he did come back to faith. I want to see his documentary - Fierce Grace - about his stroke.

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Charles Morgan

Be Here Now, Meditator's Guidebook, Still Here, The Listening Heart: all rolled into one!

September 14, 2014

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This is a wonderful synthesis of all Ram Dass's works. I couldn't stop thinking about it the whole time I read it.

In it Ram Dass speaks to us very conversationally about all these wonderful life-enhancing and comforting ideas. He's done a lot of work with the dying and been fascinated with that from middle-age. Also telling us we are not alone in our flaws.

He loves his guru Mahara-ji and believes they are together always. He discusses meditation practice, guru work, the different
ways we can meditate and how to look at ourselves from outside ourselves without sacrificing what we need to do as egos.
As John Holland says, "We are not just bodies, but souls having a human experience," Ram Dass says that in India the people, although they are suffering from poverty, are more soul-identified. We have ego, personal soul and soul that is one with God,
or you may hear "the Atman". A lot of common sense life advice, much like John Holland in that, as he has been giving life advice since at least the 70's, to American audiences. He was a star psychologist at Harvard with Timothy Leary and as you may know they experimented with LSD. After that liberating experience, he says, Ram Dass went in search of a more permanent high but in
the more natural way of Yoga and meditation. This was all way before we had popular science(such as the Daniel Goleman books) proving the benefits of meditation.

Ram Dass also tells us how to bring our practice into the world. We know we all have roles and don't need to abandon them to be happy but we can see ourselves from the outside, that we're people playing various roles and to see the richness of the emotions when we get stuck. How beautiful it all is when we witness our mind states, alone or interacting with others. But I
can't do Ram Dass full justice in writing!

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Nikki

Be Here Now, People!

November 23, 2015

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He is an amazing human being. I love this book and recommend the documentary about him, Fierce Grace.
The title says it all...
I actually had a lot of pictures stuck into my big mirror and after ordering this book thought "I should clean that mirror with Windex", it was just an aside. I hadn't realized that by having all those lovely pictures of everything you could think of stuck to the inner periphery of the mirror, it had closed in the space by a big margin. It is now a clean, clear space that seems like a whole other dimension of the clarity in the spot that it occupies. See this as a metaphor for ones life or self or soul and you will want to clean up all the junk that veils the clarity of who you truly are. Turn to Ram Dass in times of feeling lost or uncertain and he will help you keep your mirror sparkling!

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