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Author: Ram Dass
Publisher: Hanuman Foundation
Release Date: 1978-10-12
ISBN-10: 0517543052
ISBN-13: 9780517543054
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A Lama Foundation Book. Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga and gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of man's nature. Illustrated.
beautiful
| Customer Rating: | this book is epic! i have practiced yoga for about 7 months, and maybe 3 months ago I found BE HERE NOW. this book has changed my life, and it is nothing but love. read this book and take from it what you can. i am sure that everyone that reads it will be touched by at least some part of it. not to mention all the wonderful books he recommends to "hang out with" or ones that are "helpful having met." this book has so much to offer!
namaste =) |
My mind is blown
| Customer Rating: | | The first time I read this book back in the 70's I wrote to a friend of mine saying, "My mind...my mind is blown." Thirty years later my mind is still blown by Ram Dass. He was at the forefront of a cultural revolution which allowed milllions to find a more spiritually rewarding way to live. What was once a New Age way of looking at the world is now firmly imbeded in our culture. In my memoir, Hitchhiking from Vietnam: Seeking the OxHitchhiking From Vietnam I use what I learned from Ram Dass to help me straighten out my life after returning from Vietnam. Be Here Now is a delightful hodge podge of stuff that will help the novice spiritual seeker sort through the voluminous literature of self actualization in a very accessible way. Like Ram Dass would say, "It's all just stuff," but what mind blowing stuff it is. I highly recommend this book. |
nice presentation
| Customer Rating:  | a nice little book, just read the main text, some good pointers to reality/unreality, however you want to view it. a days read.
be- focus on being, feel that you are, feel what its like to be. (subject)
here- focus on where you are, all around you, what you see and experience (object)
now- focus on this moment, right now. how does it feel, this now? (time)
this- focus on this, how does it feel, how does it affect you? (consciousness)
is- what is is what is, be aware of what 'is'.(being)
love- reach out with feelings of love, and focus upon yourself feelings of love.(the only true answer)
not it.
i have here some exact equals:-
love = kindness (if you practice kindness you are practicing love, love is kindness, kindness is love. a circular form feedback loop).
true love = loving kindness. (this is not only for its own, unlike mundane love which can be synonymous with hatred of the alteric other). loving kindness is in truth the only answer to every question.
goodness = love (goodness is love, love is good, love is not goodness).
true goodness = 'this' (consciousness). hence the term "this is it". it may be it, but is not the answer. some have errantly confused the 'i am' with consciousness, 'this' is the the seat on which the i sits.
truth = understanding.
true truth = infinite goodness.
life = truth
beauty = love. (beauty is love, love is beautiful, love is not beauty).
peace = calm.
self,I/i = certainty. (the mundane I= is, the snowflake = is itself).
soul = essence (the soul and the self both reside in 'this'/consciousness, 'this' is the throne of the 'self'/the i, whether mundane or 'snow-flake').
intellect = certainty.
logic/reason = understanding.
pride = force.
greed = grabbing.
bad = hatred.
evil = uncertainty/doubt (as regards truth, also uncertainty destroys trust and confidence, it paralyses and prevents love).
hope this is helpful, i know it is not a complete list, but i hope some useful pointers towards our interaction with the world we live in. to any of the above it can be answered that nearly everyone of these 'is'. so what is love? love 'is' will do just fine, but it is not very helpful, and so i choose to shine the light of truth seeking into dark places and to i hope reveal exactly what some these qualities are. it must not be thought that 'is' is not a very important insight, very pure and is in its own way no less important than specific designations of what these qualities are.
there are those who say: 1. that words are less than truth, that truth cannot be aprehended by any words. 2. there are those who say that certain words may embody the truth. 3. And then there are those that say that words can transcend truth. in other words that certain words being true can lead to and are direct expressions of perfection/true love. all three of these views have a role and a place, but the most positive of these three is the view that truth can reach above itself, and yet still being itself true, embody love. in other words, concentrated light can produce/become fire.
with love, from snow-flake. xxx
ps... have a nice day :) |
Still current
| Customer Rating: | | Remember, Be Here Now is a wonderful book, still current today--to be read slowly. We used it in a study group as well. |
Cracks Through Reality
| Customer Rating: | Back in 2005, I came across this book via a friend who had recently and unexpectedly passed away. Her own family wasn't very close with her and gave us, her group of spiritual friends, the reigns in commemorating her life. One of the things we did was hold a memorial service and give away all her books to anyone who wanted them. Out of the hundreds that were on the tables, this book -without reading any excerpts from it- caught my attention, and I took it home with me. Little did I know how truly life-altering all these events were at the time.
When I read this book, it started out like any other... a story of the relevant parts of Richard's life preceeding his trip to Inida. That itself was fascinating to me, as I enjoyed reading about his LSD trips and spiritual meanderings. But nothing had prepared me for the experience of reading the comic book like center pages of this book. I found my sense of reality cracked and shattered by what I read there. For weeks, I could not feel connected to the illusions I'd never even questioned previously. Everything changed; I saw what lies beneath and the stupidity of this life I was living. Nothing made sense anymore; except what I'd been exposed to by this cracking up of my existence.
This book forever changed the direction of my life. I was what I termed "spiritual but not religous" before that, but even that illusion was shown to be superficial. It was not long, a year or so more, before I came across a mystic of our own times. And I didn't even have to travel to India to find him. When the student is ready, the teach always comes. |
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