Love Serve Remember Foundation
The Love Serve Remember Foundation (LSRF) is dedicated to preserving and continuing the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. The foundation facilitates the continuation of these teachings through online courses, blog content, films, podcasts, social network channels and collaborative projects with conscious artists and musicians.
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Richard Alpert / Ram Dass
Biography
Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Everything changed then – his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words “Be Here Now” ever since. Ram Dass’ spirit has been a guiding light for three generations, carrying along millions on the journey, helping to free them from their bonds as he works through his own.
Since 1968, Ram Dass has pursued a panoramic array of spiritual methods and practices from potent ancient wisdom traditions, including bhakti or devotional yoga focused on the Hindu deity Hanuman; Buddhist meditation in the Theravadin, Mahayana Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist schools, and Sufi and Jewish mystical studies. Perhaps most significantly, his practice of karma yoga or spiritual service has opened up millions of other souls to their deep, yet individuated spiritual practice and path. Ram Dass continues to uphold the boddhisatva ideal for others through his compassionate sharing of true knowledge and vision. His unique skill in getting people to cut through and feel divine love without dogma is still a positive influence on many people from all over the planet.
Richard Alpert Transforms into Ram Dass
Ram Dass’ Works and Seva (Spiritual Service)
Ram Dass In the Here and Now
Honoring Ram Dass into the Future
Books
- The Only Dance There Is (Anchor/ Doubleday) (1974)
- Grist For The Mill (with Stephen Levine, Harper Collins) (1977)
- Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook (with Dwarka Bonner and Daniel Goleman) (1978)
- Miracle of Love: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba (Hanuman Foundation) (1978)
- How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service (with Paul Gorman, Knopf) (1985)
- Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service (with Mirabai Bush, Bell Tower Press) (1991)
- Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying (Riverhead Books) (2000)
- One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life (Bell Tower Press) (2002)
- Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita (Harmony Books) (2004)
- Be Love Now (with Rameshwar Das) (2010)
- Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (with Rameshwar Das) (2013)
- Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying (with Mirabai Bush) (2018)
- Changing Lenses: Essential Teaching Stories from Ram Dass (2018)
Films
- A Change of Heart, a 1994 one-hour documentary directed by Eric Taylor and hosted by Ram Dass and shown on many PBS stations. It examined taking social action as a meditative act.
- Ecstatic States, a 1996 interview on VHS, by Wiseone Edutainment Pty.
- Ram Dass, Fierce Grace, a 2001 biographical documentary directed by Micky Lemle.
- Ram Dass – Love Serve Remember, a 2010 short film directed by V. Owen Bush, included in the Be Here Now Enhanced Edition eBook.
- Open Your Heart in Paradise, a 10-DVD set featuring workshops (with Ram Dass, Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg) from all 5 days of the 2010 Maui retreat.
- Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary, a 2014 documentary dual portrait.
- Ram Dass, Going Home, a 2017 documentary portrait of Ram Dass in his later years, directed by Derek Peck.[56]
- Ram Dass, Becoming Nobody, a 2019 documentary portrait of Richard Alpert becoming Ram Dass and Ram Dass becoming nobody. Directed by Jamie Catto.
