Wisdom Area: Mission and Fulfillment

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Team & Sponsors: Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roshi Joan Halifax, Harry Moody, Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, Dr. Rodolfo Musco, Mickey Lemle, Judy Goggin Wisdom Area: End of Life Preparations Few people have a detailed, planned pathway for their later years. We just try to keep going. One classic, but somehow sad concept has been the one that says you work your whole life to own a house, sell it when you have to go into an old age home and hope you die before the money which you received for the house runs out! We need to review models of aging that will allow us to manage this phase of life better.

Question: There is a pressure to remain active and engaged and creative in life. At the same time there is the concept of Retreat, of going inward. Is there a way to bring these two concepts together?

YouTube Video Title: Legacy of Wisdom - Ram Dass-Active vs Retreat YouTube URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCEzgjcM-8 Length: 2:05

Interviewee: RAM DASS - Richard Alpert (born April 6, 1931), also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller Remember Be Here Now. He is known for his association with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. He is also known for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba. Over many decades of service, he has become a valued spiritual friend and teacher for a generation of people.

In February 1997, he experienced a stroke which left him with expressive aphasia and partial paralysis. The after effects of the stroke made it necessary for him to change his plans and after much work he has been able to resume teaching commitments; using the experience to explore the spiritual dimensions of suffering and the nature of the aging process. He no longer travels and does his work locally (Maui) or via extensive use of electronic

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Team & Sponsors: Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roshi Joan Halifax, Harry Moody, Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, Dr. Rodolfo Musco, Mickey Lemle, Judy Goggin media. He continues to teach about the nature of consciousness, and about service as a spiritual path.

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Team & Sponsors: Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roshi Joan Halifax, Harry Moody, Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, Dr. Rodolfo Musco, Mickey Lemle, Judy Goggin

Transcript:

RD – Retreat and Creativity?

Interviewer: The Engagement and Passion in life RD- Yes, I think what you have to do is learn to live on two levels of consciousness at once. 14 The passionate one on this level and the witness or the spiritual one. (15) And in that way, the spiritual one is giving the Retreat and the other one gives you the full Umph, the full Passion.