Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Love and Dying - Hardcover

Dass, Ram; Bush, Mirabai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683642007 ISBN 13: 9781683642008

Publisher: Sounds True Inc, 2018

Synopsis

What would it look like if you could approach your own death with curiosity and love, in service of other beings? Many people resist their own mortality, but Ram Dass says that "Death is an incredible opportunity to awaken."

In Walking Each Other Home, Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush explore the ways in which we can be present with dying, and help ourselves and others leave this world consciously. Through masterful storytelling and practical guidance, these two teachers offer an intimate, thoughtful, and uplifting exploration of the greatest of human mysteries--and show us how death gives us an unparalleled opening to cultivate gratitude, compassion, mindfulness, and an abiding joy in the simple beauty of living.

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Review

"I am going to give everyone I know a copy of Walking Each Other Home. This book, this experience, this path of confronting our fear of death, will radically improve their lives, open them to love and presence and joy. Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush show us--beautifully, deeply, and with such humor--how profound and magical our lives can be as we become less and less afraid of death. I love Ram Dass more than I can say, but at least I can manage to say, 'Thank you, thank you, my brother, my teacher, my buddy, for your company, as I make my way home.'" --Anne Lamott, author of Hallelujah Anyway and Traveling Mercies

"A raw diamond of a book. An invitation into love. Of course, it is a how-to manual for dying (and therefore living) and for being with the dying. It is Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's generous offering to walk us home. But beyond these things, it is an invitation to sit in Ram Dass's presence as he is now. To breathe in the Grace that blows through the Maui air and that Ram Dass's current state makes space for. If you've ever had the thought that you wish you could sit with Ram Dass, or your own teacher, reading this book is your chance." --Helen Hunt, actress, director, and screenwriter

"Like beautiful music, you can hear Ram Dass's wisdom and heart full of love and Mirabai's deep harmony." --Joan Baez, musician and activist

"As Time moves through us, wearing out our bodies, it becomes more and more important to turn more deeply within and find the Timeless One in the heart, Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush point out the beauty and love to be found in living with loving awareness of the inevitable dissolution of the physical body." --Krishna Das, singer of Kirtan Wallah

"If there's one book that should be on everyone's bucket list, it's Walking Each Other Home. Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush share their wisdom on dying, that singular dance we all have on our docket." --Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Altered Traits (with Richard Davidson)

"It's a blessing to have such dear friends explore their thoughts and feelings on a subject many of us find difficult. With the wisdom of loving acceptance, Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush share how we might prepare for the transition out of this life. Walking Each Other Home transcends any praise that could be given." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness and Real Love

"Shortly after reading Ram Dass and Mirabai's uber-awesome and amazing book Walking Each Other Home, I attended a Pacific Film Archive screening of Woodstock. When Joe Cocker belted out, 'I get high with a little help from my friends!' I instantly added, 'I can die with a little help from my friends. Do you need anybody? I just need somebody to love!' Love, love, love Walking Each Other Home!" --Wavy Gravy, activist, entertainer, founder of Camp Winnarainbow

"What a magnificent gift--teachings that soothe our deepest fears--wise, tender, intimate, heart-opening, and full of love. Don't miss it!" --Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"On long road trips, my mom would sometimes play Ram Dass lectures, and I would pretend not to listen hoping she couldn't tell how much I liked them. Many years later, after she passed away from metastatic breast cancer, I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon with Ram Dass at his home in Maui. I said to him 'I wish my mom was here. She loved you.' To which he responded 'She is here.' This book made me feel like I was there again, being reminded that love never dies and that our hearts can open even in the depths of grief. If you think at some --Frank Ostaseski, founder and director of the Metta Institute; author of The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

About the Author

Ram Dass

Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr.Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharaj-ji. Maharaj-ji gave Ram Dass his name, which means "servant of God." Everything changed then--his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words "Be Here Now" ever since.

Be Here Now, Ram Dass's monumentally influential and seminal work, still stands as the highly readable centerpiece of Western articulation of Eastern philosophy, and how to live joyously 100 percent of the time in the present, luminous or mundane. Be Here Now continues to be the instruction manual of choice for generations of spiritual seekers. Forty years later, it's still part of the timeless present. Being here now is still being here now. Ram Dass now resides on Maui, where he shares satsang, kirtan, and where he can amplify the healing process in the air and waters of Hawaii. His work continues to be a path of teaching and inspiration to so many. Ram Dass's spirit has been a guiding light for three generations, carrying along millions on the journey, helping free them from their bonds as he has worked his way through his own.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1683642007
• ISBN 13: 9781683642008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224