Ram Dass on Death, Suffering and Spiritual Growth

In this wonderful video lecture by Ram Dass, who is arguably the most important spiritual teacher of our generation, he describes the transformative quality of opening up to the dying process. 

 

"Part of our agenda as people of any age is to find some way of 

being with the idea of death. Whether confronting our own passing 

or grieving the death of someone we love, we're trapped in our pain 

until we look beyond the form."

  

In our November 2015 newsletter, we mentioned 24 year-old Maire Kent, who was dying from cardiac sarcoma, and came to our conference to learn how to face death consciously and fearlessly. She was accompanied by a PBS film crew that chronicled her story for a series called The Embrace of Dying. 

The film's director Keith Famie was so moved by Maire's end-of-life experience that he launched a new project... an extraordinary tribute called Maire's Journey, which you can learn about here:
  

Maire's Journey is currently showing at the Great Lakes International Film Festival, and Keith has just published a book to accompany the film. Once you watch this clip, I'm sure you'll want to own the book. You can find it HERE .