MY UNIQUE FORM OF MANIFESTING GOD

Ram Dass: I experience I’m dying into Dharma. I’m dying into being an instrument of that which relieves suffering. Because I don’t see what else you do with your time while you’re inform. I mean, it’s interesting that before you awaken, you look at the Ten Commandments, as you know, don’t strike me. I’m going to do it. You know, you’re afraid of being hit. And then after you start to awaken, you look, and you say that’s obvious, any damn fool sees that. If I steal from you, I’m stealing from myself. I don’t want to live in a paranoid world that includes thieves. So, it changes the whole nature of the game.

And I experience myself as becoming more and more that formless inform, which in which every act you do is an act designed to relieve suffering. Not because you’re a good guy, just because that’s what you are. It’s like you breathe. It’s the same thing. So, I don’t have a missionary sense. I feel that each of us—I went from being busy, insecure, trying to be special, trying to be somebody special, you know, because I was feeling inadequate, original sin, separateness, and I’m going to become somebody. And who are you and what have you been doing? What’s your title and all? To seeing in the Zen sense that the game was to become nobody special.

So, I went around, did a lecture tour called Nothing New by Nobody Special, and then when I got rooted in nobody specialness, I began to understand the concept of uniqueness, that I had a unique function. Not special, but unique. It’s no better or worse than anybody else. It’s just because I’m a front man doesn’t mean that I’m special in that role. It’s just my part. And I see a mother raising a child as equally doing her part. And somebody driving a bus with compassion is doing his part or her part. And I’m beginning to appreciate individual differences in terms of unique manifestation of God and all these forms and all these faces, and I’m just dying into my unique form of manifesting God.