BE HERE NOW SHORT SUMMARY
Incisive Points From Be Here Now By Ram Dass
When you’ve quieted your mind enough and transcended your ego enough, then you’ll realize when you’re with a candle flame you are a candle flame and when you are with other being’s mind you are the other being’s mind, when there is a task to do you are the task.
The mindless quality of total involvement that comes only when the ego is quiet and there is no attachment.
It is only when you reside quietly in your own HRIDAYAM (Heart) that you become He of total light, unbearable comparison and infinite power.
HOW TO BECOME BUTTERFLY
The caterpillar isn’t walking around saying:
Man I’ll soon be a butterfly because as long as he’s busy being a caterpillar he can’t be a butterfly.
It is only when the caterpillarness is done that one starts to be a butterfly.
You can’t rip away caterpillarness it is unfolding process, a metamorphosis.
As long as you want power you can’t have. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
As long as you have an ego, you are on a limited trip. You’re on a trivial trip that’s going to last maybe for 60, 70 maybe 80 years and full with fear of it end trying to make its own eternity.
Fear of death only comes through the bitterness of the ego.
Stop planning for the future it’s all right now.
What is holding you back? Your thoughts you’ve got to give them up.
JUST EGO PLANNING
What are you doing? Planning for the future. Well, it is all right Now. But later….forget it baby that’s later, now is now are you going to Be Here Now Or Not it’s as simple as that.
The message you communicate with another human being has nothing to do with what you say, it has nothing to do with your look on the musculature of your face it’s much deeper than that much deeper! It’s the vibrations that emanate from you! If your vibrations are paranoid that’s what’s being received and when you’re around pets (birds or cats particularly) or very young children or very flipped out psychotics they will know you immediately. You can come and say, “Hello dear, how is you?” And the dog will growl. You can’t come on because they’re listening to the vibrations that hand is reaching out and sending. (Be Here Now, Pg. 56)
And when you realize that every moment you are a full statement of your being and you’re sending out vibrations that are affecting everything around you, which in turns is affecting everything that comes back. When you meet somebody who is caught in the world of WE and THEM and you are HIM to that person and you get caught in his mind net you’re both just intensifying one another’s PARANOIA.
You can only protest effectively when you love the person whose ideas you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
DESIRE is a trap. DESIRE-LESSNESS is Moksha (Liberation)
BUDDHA’S 4 NOBLE TRUTHS
First Noble Truth
Concerns the fact that life always has in it the element of unfulfillment call it suffering. Birth, old age, sickness, not getting what you want, getting what you don’t want, even getting what you want in the physical world is going to be SUFFERING because YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE It, because it is always in time. Anything in time is going to PASS AWAY.
Lay not your treasures where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21
That’s the trap of time, as long as you want anything in time it is going to pass because time passes.
Second Noble Truth
The cause of suffering is desire (or craving). If you don’t try to hold, you won’t suffer over loss. If you don’t worship life you don’t fear death. But if you try to hold on to life it’s very sad. You can Honor life but if you try to hold onto life…it is very sad.
Third Noble Truth
Give up attachment give up desire. You end the births, you end the deaths, you end the suffering. You end the whole thing that keeps you stuck.
If am attached to this particular Time Space Locus then I can free my awareness from my body and I can become one with it all. I can merge with divine mother.
Fourth Noble Truth
The eight fold path (getting rid of desire) which says
- Get your life straights
- Do your work
- Do everything you got to do
- Watch your speech
- Watch your thoughts
- Watch your calmness
- Get your calm center going
- Live your life in such a way as to get yourself straight, to get free of attachment that just keep sucking you in all the time.
You don’t seem to understand you’re in prison, if you’re to get out of prison. Then first thing you must realize is that YOU ARE IN PRISON. If you think you’re free you can’t escape.
About Be Here Now
Be Here Now, or Remember, Be Here Now, is a 1971 book on spirituality, yoga and meditation by the American yogi and spiritual teacher Ram Dass. Be Here Now By Ram Dass was one of the books that Steve Jobs used to read and practice together with some of his best friends.
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