“For me to be here in this moment is to be aware of you, to sense you, to feel who, in what you would call the future, will be listening to my voice – to feel each one of you because the future already exists. It’s just a ring of awareness. And I step into that ring for a moment so that I can be with you now.” [On the Road with Rama – Neutral Density]

Buddhist teachings by Rama

The On the Road with Rama talks were recorded in 1985 at different power places in the United States. The talks are very informal and fun to listen to. They emerge spontaneously in interaction with the energy of the place. These 7 talks take you across the United States from the Continental Divide to Lake Tahoe and beyond to the Big Island and Maui in Hawaii. In the 21st century, where travel is the number one pastime and the pressure to have unique experiences in exotic places has never been so high, Rama’s inspiration to explore spirit while connecting to a physical place is refreshing. He is the best guide in connecting inner and outer worlds. Dive in and enjoy.

It’s 5:15 in the afternoon. I’m on the top of the world, 10,000 feet in Hawaii, on top of the Haleakala volcano. The clouds have filled in all around it. I’m just above the cloud line, somewhere near the House of the Sun.

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The day is August 15th and the location is Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. The time is 6:30 p.m. I just took a walk around Walden — it’s about a 1.8 mile hike  — and I stopped for a while at the site of Thoreau’s house.

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Today is March 30th. It’s around 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon. I’m on the Big Island of Hawaii, and I’m pulled off to the side of the road at around three thousand feet. 

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Today is April the 25th, and it’s around twenty-five of six in the early evening. I’m at around 6,000 feet at Lake Tahoe, and today I’m going to talk to you about magic.

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This is Rama. I’m talking to you from the twentieth century. I’m on the island of Nantucket. It’s around 3:30 in the afternoon on the 29th of May, 1985. Nantucket is an island off the coast of Massachusetts, along the Eastern Seaboard of what they call North America.

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Hello power lovers. I am here today on top of the Continental Divide, 11,500 feet up above the earth. I’m parked by the side of the road. It’s around 7:45 in the evening on August 7th. Occasionally a car or truck will roar by.

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Today I’d like to talk to you about neutral density — the neutral density of perpetual being — being awareness without being aware of yourself as such. It’s February 6th, 1985.

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