This talk took place in Santa Cruz, CA, in March of 1977. Ram Dass shares his experiences with Buddhist meditation teachers in Thailand and his explorations with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

0:07 Story time begins
0:28 Ram Dass travels with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein
2:00 Ajahn Chah's Monastery
3:01 The Monks of the Monastery
4:42 The Deeper Layer of the Master
6:15 Remarks on the Monks, Suffering and Compassion
7:50 Purification in the forest monastery
8:30 Meditation in Nature
9:51 Villagers feed the Monks
10:49 Eating in Silence
12:10 Dedicating your Life
12:40 Brutall Warzone Conditions
13:45 Growing Beyond Forms
14:55 Talks about Ajahn Chah
15:33 Ram Dass quotes Chogyam Trungpa
16:05 Buddhism and Hinduism
17:28 Ram Dass talks of Maharaji
19:01 Politics of Founding a Meditation Society
21:01 Ram Dass explains Karma
21:50 Yearning, Discipline and Guilt
22:40 Ram Dass Talks about Pleasure, Joy, Desire and Pain
23:19 Goodnight, sleep well!

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