Colors of Life - Ram Dass and Being

I watched an entire season of Ram Dass teachings and all the quotes this week are his. The teachings had everything in it from his disliking of people, to his sexuality, to his questioning of Enlightenment. But what I noticed throughout the entire season it’s about being. He was just being. How difficult it is for most of us to just be. Just sit still to quiet the mind and just be. So much of what we learn is to be a doer or a thinker or a seeker. “The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”  The idea of being is just being. We have the answers to our lives, but we don’t sit quietly to hear what they are saying. There is more to us than this three-dimensional physical plane. We see this in our dreams, meditations and sometimes we get that aha moment when we talk to somebody or watch a TV show or overhear someone speaking. It’s amazing to me when you get those little nudges and I don’t know where they come from. Is it intuition? Is it our higher self, our angels, spirit guides? In the past, when I have fought these nudges, I will fall flat on my face. So, follow that intuition, Spirit guides, higher self, etc. because it’s usually right. “Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.” These nudges told me to write and publish my poetry. I was scared to do that because yes; I was exposing who I was. I was afraid I would not be accepted. The opposite happened. I was accepted. This same little nudge came to me constantly for two years to start up the Poetic Resurrection podcast. I didn’t know what the podcast should be about. I knew it would not be about acting. Then, during the pandemic, I saw people marching and helping at food banks and I thought, how wonderful would life be if we had self-love and self-acceptance? With these acceptances, it would be easy to accept and love others. There would be no fear of loss. Whichever direction these nudges are directing you, they need to be of a kind heart. “Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.” The poem for this week is Continuum from Inspire Me: Perception. Continuum   Spring florets glimmer In afternoon light Scent of fresh tulips Myths of existence—fables   Trembling in 90 degrees Veneer of tears Illusions of turmoil Created by self Head spins—Pandora’s Box   Seven sins tap across the stage of A cardinal songbird As the earthfall cleanses itself Hope gathers irises For a rainbow bridge   Oyá* conjures and flees storm Yemaya*—mother disapproves Amazon and Niger Rivers Dominated Femininity protected   Travel—Antipodes Indian ocean with full moonlight Glistens as the waves erupt Hera’s* vengeful heart Aches from illegitimate family                                                                   Crumbled mirror of water Tears cascade past seven years, Moisture blooms lilies of death Phoenix’s ashes resurrected In endless evolution   Get Ram Dass life-changing book Be Here Now at https://amzn.to/2ZQ6iuW Check out his website: https://www.ramdass.org/   Oyá uses tornados as her weapon and raises dead armies to use as her warriors. Yemaya is a powerful orisha who’s the mother of living things. Hera is Zeus’ wife, best known for her jealousy of Zeus’s other family. Please note we are an Amazon Associate and receive commissions that help support our podcast.