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Sitaram Dass shares how to love imperfections without having to “jump through cognitive hoops” to do so. Recorded from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat on Salt Spring Island, these three video and audio recordings involve lectures and a Loving-Awareness mantra meditation.

Sitaram Dass and Pavan Das tell stories about their time with Ram Dass and answer the question, “What did you have to let go of to be with him?” Recorded from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat.

In this third Q&A from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat, Sitaram Dass leads a discussion on transitioning from a spiritual retreat into our everyday lives and ends by answering an audience question on the nature of grief.

In this audio recording of an event held shortly after the recent election, Sitaram Dass invokes the central scene of the Bhagavad Gita as a meditation on collective grief to inspire deep feeling, compassion, and right action for this time. He breaks up the discourse with 6-minutes of chanting that features: Jeanette Kangas (tabla) Clark…
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In this Q&A from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat at Just Love Forest, retreat facilitators Hari Scott Whitmore, Pavan Das, and Sitaram Dass tell stories about their time caregiving for Ram Dass. Their honest and heartfelt reflections are shared atop of the sound of the Georgia cicadas and peppered bird song. For more retreat content…
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I was recently a guest on the BRN Podcast. We discussed how devotion and chanting can relieve suffering and aid the path of recovery.

Editors note: This is an updated version of Sitaram Dass’s letter from the Sacred Community Project Fall Newsletter that was sent on Oct 3rd, 2024. Sign up to receive our newsletters. Autumn is here, and I take refuge in the quality of slowness that now permeates the Pacific Northwest. The sky loses its heat as…
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The article below was adapted from Sitaram Dass’s upcoming book, Loving-Awareness: Awakening the Heart-Mind through the Path of Grace, which will be released through the Sacred Community Project. They describe SCP’s core interspiritual stance of Loving-Awareness actualized in the teachings of Love, Service, Remembrance, and Truth. Loving-Awareness is who we really are. Deeper than the…
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I was a guest on the Hanuman Healing Hour Podcast. We discussed an article I wrote years ago, titled, “Mistaking Individualism for Freedom,” among other things. Check it out at the links below: Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hanuman-dass/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1l8QfVh21AS1ubAnmu3OQI YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCE8kQVRYw

A talk on the path of Bhakti Yoga with Q&A at the end. There were some great questions from the group at Center for Sacred Sciences.