Tag: grief
Mantra, Devotion, and Grief – A Live Meditation Recording
In this live meditation recording, Sitaram Dass uses the mantra, SitaRam, as an anchor to bring our devotional heart into the presence of grief. In this way, we are reminded that our hearts are capable of holding the entire human experience. More meditations and workshop recordings are available on the SCP website here: https://sacredcommunityproject.org/education…
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Remembering Ram Dass: Death, Grief, and the Eternal Soul
This video and transcript is from the event, Remembering Ram Dass, put on by the Emerge in association with Sacred Community Project. Emerge is an international service organization based in India that is deeply rooted and inspired by the teachings of Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba. Sacred Community Project is a service and media…
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Giant Rock Podcast
I was recently on the Giant Rock Podcast with host Jeff Crawford and his co-host Baba Here Love. In this sprawling 2-hour conversation, we discussed planes of consciousness, aliens, death, and grief. If I were to succinctly say the overall theme, it would be: the importance of critical thinking on the spiritual path. View the…
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Bracing Against the World
Our samskaras, or the accumulation of habits formed from past action and thought, are deep impressions that have dug themselves into our mind-body system. These samskaras manifest in the form of bracing. We tighten in our mind-body in order to push away unpleasantness or to grab at the desirable. It is this contraction that creates the illusion of separation. By bringing our awareness to these deep holdings, they begin to loosen on their own, returning to their natural state. We stop bracing against the world.
A Spiritual Response to Crisis
The belief that we are all One is not spiritual if it blinds us from injustice. It is only spiritual if it reminds us of our interdependence- that none of us are free until every last one of us is free. Belief in in the Perfection and Harmony of the Cosmos is not spiritual if…
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Listening to the Pain of the World
They say a parent loves their child so much that the child’s needs come first. Through exhaustion and fatigue, through early mornings and late nights, through rebellion, lies, and being ignored, a parent will ensure their child’s survival and even its thriving. This is how I want to love the world. I want to love…
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