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Ram DassA beloved devotee of presence in its purest and most exalted form shares about illness, recovery, his past, and his life right now. “I don’t mind that my memory is shot… because I dwell in the present. And the past and the future are not on my screen at all. That means I can’t say, ‘Oh damn it! I use to play golf’ … or something like that … I don’t do any of that. That’s past. That’s somebody else. And this is me now.” “I live down in my heart and I know the Judge is in my mind.” “I have roles in the society… like being a wise old man… but I don’t have to take them seriously. And I think I can substitute for role, my soul.” “In relationships, truth is gold. I remember sitting in my mother’s hospital room when she was dying and… all the relatives and nurses and doctor came in and they were all speaking phony stuff. The doctor says, ‘You’re going to be all right. Wonderful, you’re going home.’ … and then go into the corridor they’d say, ‘She won’t live a week.’ For a person that’s going through a ceremony of dying and then being surrounded by lying – boy, it hurts me.” “I have my image of my father as very complex in my mind because in his lifetime he was an achiever, and then in his death I found him to be an angel, just a sweet, soft angel.” Watch Now:
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