Persevering with his dialog with Mirabai Bush and Sharon Salzberg from our earlier episode, Ram Dass explores the trail from struggling to grace and talks in regards to the classes he discovered from his stroke.

This recording was made on the 2012 Open Your Coronary heart in Paradise retreat in Maui. Try the primary half of this dialog: Bhakti and The Path of Love

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From Struggling to Grace

Ram Dass and Sharon focus on how struggling can result in grace. Ram Dass tells the story of how certainly one of Mararaj-ji’s followers chided him for saying that Maharaj-ji was the one who gave Ram Dass his stroke. He talks about how his optimistic angle towards the stroke was Majarajji’s grace, not the stroke itself. The stroke was struggling. Ram Dass shares how he dealt together with his post-stroke melancholy. 

“I bear in mind the second I received there. I used to be within the hospital, however the entire folks round me had been like, ‘Oh, horrible, horrible stroke, horrible.’ I seemed up at Maharaj-ji and he was smiling and smiling, in an image. And I mentioned to him, ‘You all the time gave me grace in my life. What occurred to you? I used to be stroked. Did you exit for lunch or one thing?’ And the optimistic radiations proceed to come back from him. In order that was fierce grace.” – Ram Dass

Joseph Goldstein explores the reality of struggling in Perception Hour Ep. 130

Compassion and Empathy (12:00)

Ram Dass shares how his stroke taught him it was okay to be depending on others and that it made him admire silence much more. He additional explores struggling and how one can’t go round telling those that their struggling is grace. Ram Dass talks a few letter he wrote to the mother and father of a kid who was murdered and the way compassion comes from oneness. He and Mirabai focus on the distinction between compassion and empathy.

“Empathy is separateness. ‘I see you’re struggling. I’ll do one thing.’ Compassion is, ‘We’re struggling.’” – Ram Dass

Raghu Markus, Krishna Das, and Mingyur Rinpoche focus on the essence of affection and compassion in Mindrolling Ep. 407

Compassion Fatigue (25:00)

Ram Dass and Mirabai speak in regards to the concept of compassion fatigue on this planet of service and caregivers. Mirabai shares a narrative a few time she and Ram Dass encountered their very own compassion fatigue whereas working with the Seva Basis in Central America. Sharon closes out the session with a short meditation based mostly on the Buddhist custom of sharing benefit, which is a apply that may be performed anytime now we have opened to some optimistic power.

“It’s a part of Mayan tradition, you by no means simply drop in and drop out, you spend a very long time asking in regards to the household and so forth. So we’re nearing there, we’re all actually drained, and Ram Dass says probably the most incorrect compassionate assertion ever. He says, ‘Can’t we simply throw the cash out the window?’” – Mirabai Bush

Spring Washam talks about compassionate service on this planet in BHNN Visitor Podcast Ep. 69