Summary: Taking time to look back and move forward. Conversations With KD episodes are derived from the recordings of KD’s online events from his home during the 2020/ 2021 days of social distancing and quarantine from the onset of COVID and beyond.<br> <br> Call and Response Special Edition – Conversations with KD November 7, 2020<br> “Do what you can do to let go. It doesn’t have to be while you’re sitting down, cross-legged pretending to meditate. That’s not it. All day long, just let go. “I’m doing it again. Ok. Ram Ram.” Just be at ease. Try to be at ease with life as it is, and then you’ll be at ease in the next moment and the next moment and next week and next month. Right? It’s inner strength. You have to cultivate that.” – Krishna Das<br> <br> <br> MORE FROM KRISHNA DAS:<br> <br> Harmonium Tutorials: <a href="https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/harmonium-tutorials/products/harmonium-tutorials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/harmonium-tutorials/products/harmonium-tutorials</a><br> Online Courses with Krishna Das: <a href="https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/courses</a><br> Online Shop for books, videos, music and more: <a href="https://krishnadasmusic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://krishnadasmusic.com/</a><br> <br> FULL TRANSCRIPTION:<br> Hi, everybody. Welcome to the world.<br> The resolution of any issue or any question that we have in our own minds is always to quiet down and listen to our hearts, feel our hearts, feel what our deepest feelings are. There’s a lot of panic, a lot of anxiety these days, a lot of fear, but that fear does not touch us. It does not touch our true nature. So, the quieter we can become, the less reactive we can become, the better it is, and to keep acting out of unconscious knee jerk reactions is very, it is not a good way to go. It creates more and more suffering for everyone around us and for ourselves. So, in that sense, everything we do for ourselves, we’re also doing for all other beings, because ultimately there are no other beings. We are all one. Maharajji said this, over and over.<br> “All one.”<br> There is only one, and we are the cells of that body of one. Everything we need to know comes from within. The one thing that we can share with other people are the techniques of accessing that place within us, techniques to help us release our delusional beliefs about ourselves, that we’re no good, that we don’t deserve love, that we’ll never be okay, that this life is meaningless. All these types of negative atmospheres exist within us. They are not who we are, but we believe them for so long that we take them as real. They’re as real as our ego is. So, our ego is made out of all these delusional beliefs, because the separateness, which we call ego, is also delusional. It’s not true. Ultimately it is not true. And yet, that’s where we live for most of our whole lives. We live in that place of separateness and self-centered actions. But when you recognize the true self, who are you going to hurt? Who are you going to manipulate? And for what reason?<br> The difference between Maharajji and almost all of the other yogis and saints that I’ve met is that there was no manipulation. He didn’t need anything from us. He didn’t want anything from us. He had recognized his true nature, which is our true nature. And he allowed us to enter into a field of love that was inconceivable to us. And his presence is here. He’s here now. He’s always here, but we don’t turn towards him. We don’t turn towards that place of love, and so we spin and spin and spin and spin and spin around.<br> There’s no way to find presence or Being. It’s not like something buried in the ground that you can dig and fi...
