Imagine (With Ambient Accompaniment From Boreta)

"IMAGINE" is an immersive project that blends a very unique early 70's Ram Dass meditation with an audio soundscape created by Boreta (of The Glitch Mob). Submerge yourself into the depths of your consciousness, and discover the possibility of truth.

Transcript

So in the next few minutes when I'm reading to you,

Try to find a comfortable place where you can be with your head,

Neck and chest in a straight line.

And you could be lying flat down or you could be sitting up.

Meditation is many things.

It can be meditating on an object of meditation.

Or it can be a process of letting all objects go by.

The process now is to dislodge ourselves from our inordinate attachment to our own thoughts.

Because as long as we're locked into our thoughts,

We're always just one thought away from here.

Since we've been talking about grueness,

Let us use this time together and this incredible spiritual energy that the sharing we're doing at this moment is tuning us into.

To allow us all to get a little closer to the Satguru that is within all beings.

There are so many ways of visualizing the formless in form.

Some meditators prefer to place the desired image of the guru-ness on the top of their head.

They may imagine Buddha on top of their head.

And some bring him into their heart and experience him sitting on a lotus in their heart.

Imagine a buddha-like being now.

Somebody like Padmasambhava,

Also known as Guru Rinpoche,

Sitting cross-legged on a lotus.

A being made of pure light.

A being of absolute calm,

Compassion,

And peace.

Imagine that being in front of you.

Imagine that being at about eye level.

Imagine that being in the distance.

Now imagine a broad highway of blue light that stretches from that being to your heart.

And then experience that being very,

Very gently floating in the lotus position on the lotus.

Floating closer and closer.

So much light.

So much love.

So much compassion.

Let that being come inside until it resides in your very heart.

Not your physical heart.

Your spiritual heart.

Just about in the center of your chest.

A little to the right with just about a thumbs length.

Feel that being sitting inside.

And feel that being in your heart.

Now let that Guru increase in size until its body just conforms with your body.

So where your leg is,

The Guru's leg.

Your shoulder,

The Guru's shoulder.

Your head to Guru's head.

Now feel what it feels like to be interpenetrated with the being of total compassion.

Compassion to see the entire universe.

The whole of its polarity.

That attachment.

No attachment.

Allowing it to be,

Not demanding it be anything other than it is.

Seeing it all in its utter perfection.

Now feel what it feels like to be interpenetrated with the being of pure light.

Experience yourself as pure light.

Feel the light emanating from deep within.

Coming out through all of your pores.

Pouring out through your eyes.

All of your orifices.

And from the ends of your toes and from your fingertips.

Now feel what it feels like to be interpenetrated with the being of pure love.

Be love.

Be love.

Feel that love emanating from every part of your being.

Now feel what it feels like to be interpenetrated with the being of total consciousness.

Pure consciousness.

Let every part of your being be conscious.

Now with your eyes closed,

Start to experience this body of light,

Of compassion,

Of love,

Of consciousness.

Growing inside.

Start to experience more and more of the universe as within you.

Everything you can think of.

Say,

Tat Tvam Asi.

I am that too.

When you have moved out in space,

In all directions,

Till there is no space you can conceive of that you aren't.

Now move in time.

Backwards.

Everything you can think about in history.

Tat Tvam Asi.

I am that too.

Now future.

All possibilities you can imagine.

Bring them all within yourself.

And bathe all of the future and all of the past and all of the present and all of there and all of here.

With self illuminating radiance.

With compassion.

Stay within yourself all the polarities.

All the goods and all the evils.

All the beauties and all the ugliness.

All the yin and all the yang.

Now of course you include me and I include you.

So in this place there is only one of us.

This voice,

This air is part of what we are.

And within us all of the laws of the universe are reflected in all of the forms.

If I am it all,

Then the word I has no more meaning.

Because there is no not I.

And so there is no I.

Here and now there is only is-ness.

Just being.

The planets move,

The heart beats.

All of the laws are manifested in all of the forms of the universe.

Now we can look within ourself.

And we can see the separate entities.

Who we thought we were.

Before we started this meditation.

Find that entity who you thought you were.

Examine it.

With some curiosity.

As you would any other phenomenon in nature.

Examine its dance in life.

Look at all the problems it thinks it has.

And the plans it has.

Look at its desires.

Desires it has because it doesn't realize.

That it is already everything.

Look at all its fears.

Look at all of this with the absolute compassion.

That you are now.

The compassion to see it all.

Allow it to be.

Now look into that being who you thought you were.

Look inside that being.

Way,

Way inside of it.

And see who you now know yourself to be.

The entire universe.

Now ever so gently.

Start to re-experience.

Your body.

Your physical body.

The body in which you are dwelling at this moment.

You are now re-entering this incarnation.

Starting from your toes.

Let your consciousness move up your body until it reaches the crown of your head.

Now ever so gently.

Come back into the personality you have incarnated into in this world.

But at the same moment you are re-entering into your separateness.

Keep in mind.

Keep in pure mind.

Keep in the identity with the Guru.

Back into your senses.

Thoughts.

All part of the incarnation.

And now as we proceed on through the pages of the book of our lives.

Let's remember that in our Hridaya,

In our heart,

Sits our Guru.

Guru,

God,

And self are one.

Wherever you think you go.

Whoever you think you are.

Whatever you think you think.

He is.

Guru is.

Whoever you meet.

In her,

In him.

Resides Guru.

Wherever you look,

Wherever you see.

All Guru.

Now and always.

Home.

Home.

Home.

Home.

Home.

Home.

Home.

Home.

Reviews

Love you RD. On more than one occasion, you are the guruwhim I visualize emodying. Ram roam

So powerful! Thank you SO much. I will do that one again!🙏

Wonderful meditation. A fresh, vivid approach to guru yoga

Wonderful and far out!
Anyone who was around in the 1970s will enjoy this meditation deeply, both for its power and for its style and terminology.

One of the most beautiful meditations 🙏 thank you

Transcendent…no other words can describe what I went through just now.

Wow. Oneness, compassion, ... I just invited Jesus into my heart again 🤣🥲 ... thankful for this

Absolutely delightful meditation. Ram Dass + soundscape = I floated downstream.

Who doesn’t cherish Ram Dass? I have never heard a soundtrack to his meditations like this that was so spectacular.

Absolutely beautiful and amazing! Thank you Ram Dass for this divine gift. Namaste 🙏🏽😊

Merci de cette guidance à la connexion avec le grand tout nous ramenant à l’unité. Explorer l’univers afin de le conscientiser en soi, c’est ça la magie ✨✨ merci de ce rappel. Avec tout ma gratitude 🙏

What a lovely journey. I went to a different place during this meditation. I will visit again soon! 🙏

A beautiful experience to merge with the Guru.
Thank you, Ram Das, for this gift!

I don’t know what it is with this meditation but I never “hear” more than 10 minutes of it before I am so deeply somewhere else. Just what I need when nothing else quites the mind. Thank you 🧘🏼‍♀️📿🙏🏼

Really took me out but in to myself. Completely amazing 🕉️☮️☯️ Namaste ❤️

Thank you
It was fantastic
Love love love my teacher Ram Dass!!!

That was so beautiful. Truly inspiring and uplifting 🙏🏼

Nice pace Ram Daas words with beautiful accompaniment aiding relaxation and absorption . Thank you

Light Compassion Love Consciousness - no Space that I am not … Imagine 🙏🏻
Fusion
Fervour
Passion
Peace
Imagine …
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Bliss

Ram Dass 🙏🏻 Thank you to all the authors of this beautiful meditation. It has been such a deep, important journey.