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Aging is not for Sissy
Ram Dass was and remains a legendary figure of my generation of baby boomers.
For those of us who love him, his story is a testimony of what preceded it and bring us with him.
Ram Dass wrote most of this book before I had the stroke that almost all his life. The idea of aging and the disease has a new meaning for him, whereas before I had trouble finishing the book, the experience of near death allowed the book effortlessly find a useful purpose.
First, his experience as a professor at Harvard, to experiment with consciousness and its Timothy Leary trip to India to meet without the use psychotropic drugs, and found his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and his many years of lectures on enlightenment and the search of God, and now his movement and search for meaning in aging, death, death and rebirth: This book summarizes all this and more.
The passages in "Still Here: Embracing Aging, evolution and death," which describes the relationship with aging in relation to American culture and how to define aging, is deep and stimulating. Ram Dass describes American culture as nontraditional Company Westerners are separated from each other and the nuclear family definition.
Traditional cultures revere old, young and live together in a common thread to share.
Ram Dass fear describes six identifies itself to think himself more and older: senility, loneliness, shame, helplessness, loss of role identity and depression.
The practice, we recommend working with these fears is the attention, the art of living in the moment.
Here is a stanza of Tibetan Buddhism describes the surveillance of a person who is aware of these fears.
"The last extension does not not invite the future, not its Alter monitoring innate fear not looks – There is nothing more than that. "
Or in the words of Wordsworth:
"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. "
Or in the words of TS Elliot:
"Aging, who refuse to waste time with bullshit. You drop the masks, their little vanities and ambitions false. "
Ram Dass define self-healing in this way: As soon as we realize a state of mind such as senility, loneliness, shame, impotence, loss of role identity and depression, the vigilance of our practice more effectively mitigate them.
For example, loneliness is an opportunity to give the loneliness I feel very well in times of peace, calm and contemplation.
The only thing that never diminished over time, is our ability to see rational perception. Wisdom grows and grows at the time of our death. Ram Dass said that our situation is to consider a program with the aging of wisdom that their highest calling and use it as a means of enlightenment, our own and those around us.
That's why the collective wisdom found in the heart of our radio program, Moon, and Moo the third integral part of everything.
As we age, we refuse to be discarded or considered irrelevant. We spoke with courage and wisdom to share all the others to join us, we are called to do.
Our radio open on my 58th birthday, and stressed the need for me to ask my own aging as a gift as a celebration, a dance that will continue to dance and kiss and increase my knowledge as a means to help my generation in their quest for conscious age.
About the Author
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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator of the e-book called “Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover Your Calling and Destiny.” Click here to order the e-book:
http://www.nursingcareertransformation.com
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