This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Augby Fiona Gardner. He lives in the hearts of everyone as the Atman’ – God within me. Maharaj-ji spoke also of Christ: ‘Christ died for the truth … He never died, he never died. Those of us who have Christ as our inner guide might see that as being in Christ consciousness – hid with Christ in God. In that place between death and birth, we are no-bodies, but souls intuiting directly … we simply are … barely any difference between lover and beloved … pure presence’ We are together in the ground of being, the unthought “I” in the spiritual heart, the loving awareness of the soul. ‘in intimate delight… no real separation. Ram Dass imagines that each of us will commune with our guides after death His eternal present is another dimension coinciding with our past, present and future. A being who intersects ‘our time-bound, linear reality at a kind of metaphysical perpendicular. Ram Dass sees Maharaj-ji as his internal guide and his external guru – one foot in this relative reality, the other in the formless One. Rather than a small being soon to be extinguished, I am simply a spark of infinite awareness.’ The spiritual journey is less about our timeline from birth to death than from separation to oneness. ‘If I am fully in the moment, my own death or someone else’s is just another moment. His teaching centres on being in the present moment – where there is nothing else. Ram Dass: ‘Then you are inside everything as well as outside, because it’s all One. Ram Dass uses the phrase ‘in-seeing’ from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke – when your awareness merges into Awareness. As both of us become aware of the karma of the situation or how they are holding onto a particular point of view, a moment of letting go can happen.’ I tune into Maharaj-ji and say what comes into my mind. I go into my soul to mirror their soul, to help them free up their attachments and come into the heart … I look behind the eyes, behind the thoughts flickering between us. I see where a person is in their inner journey. That can be like Vipassana or going back to Freudian fixations. I look at the attachment, the place where they are holding on or wanting to be a certain way. My yoga training also shows me planes of consciousness… I use my bag of therapist tricks to help people work with their mind stuff. Of course, I know the limits of psychology. I look intuitively at how the mind has fastened on the person’s situation, where they are clinging. comes from various Buddhist religious traditions such as the Theravada. ‘Psychology shows me the layers of emotions and motives, self-imaging, and relationships. Ram Dass, and others in the field of end-of-life care and thanatology. He combines his spiritual work with what he learnt in his training to become a psychotherapist. The greatest and the most subtle teaching Ram Dass writes, is what helps us move from ‘the thinking mind to the spiritual heart, from discursive thought to simple awareness, from the multiplicity of experience to the ground of being, from the ego to the soul’.
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