I am still a person with an ego and in form, in which there is a little
bit of stuff in which I’m somebody. So I’m in training to become nobody.
And this is my training field, right here. I have to sit day after day
with hundreds and thousands of people looking up at me, like this,
saying ‘Yes, oh yes, oh Ram Dass yes, oh yes, ah thank you, ah Ram
Dass.’
That is my fire. It’s all those mind nets saying, ‘This is who you are, this is who you are, this is who you are, this is who you are.’ And if I get stuck in being the actor, in being somebody who’s doing good, watch it! Then my mind creates a reality in which everybody that comes into my mind field is somebody for whom good needs to be done…
We can play the roles, but let’s not get stuck in them. …it’s so seductive to get caught in roles.
That is my fire. It’s all those mind nets saying, ‘This is who you are, this is who you are, this is who you are, this is who you are.’ And if I get stuck in being the actor, in being somebody who’s doing good, watch it! Then my mind creates a reality in which everybody that comes into my mind field is somebody for whom good needs to be done…
We can play the roles, but let’s not get stuck in them. …it’s so seductive to get caught in roles.
- Ram Dass -
