Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
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Movie Reviews of Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Movie Review: Ram Dass Fierce Grace
Summary: 5 Stars
Very inspirational with highs and lows. Great for any person who has had a stroke. I totally enjoyed it. RecommendedMovie Review: Truly Amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars
Truly Amaving and Moving. It touches you. I hope more people are able to see it.
Movie Review: A vulnerable and engaging biography of a spiritual approach to dealing with illness
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoyed this DVD and thought it was well done. It included a bit of biography on Ram Dass along with deep vulnerable sharing in terms of how his life changed after he had a stroke, the inner struggles involved and where he stumbled.
I have met Ram Dass in person and up to that point, I wasn't a huge fan. However, hearing him talk life, I understood there was more to him than I originally thought. He had a quality of presence, sincerity and empathy that was palpable. Somehow... the producers of this video managed to capture much of this.
When my mom had her stroke, my dad started CPR within 90 seconds and saved her life. However, my dad felt guilty and wondered if he did the right thing by saving her. When I posed this question to Ram Dass in person, he started to cry and after more than a minute, he said.... "If your dad jumping into action was motivated by love... how could it be the wrong choice?" I felt bowled over by the wisdom and empathy of his response and somehow that helped me to shift my relationship to that event as well. I tell this story because I think it illustrates an important point that Ram Dass isn't merely a "hippy guru" struggling with a stroke and old age. He has learned a lot over the years and has much to offer us in terms of understanding old age and illness from the inside. He also models how to approach the inevitable difficulties and existential crisis' of aging with grace and dignity.
Movie Review: More profound than I expected
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't know much of the guy but, I loved how the film made him very ordinary and not in a romantic way. Just an old guy with a past. A past that still leads him to decay and his hope to find something in that humbling process. I find him wanting to grow and be positive as person during this process and not in vapid way. I feel its more him struggling to cope with fear and struggle to be what he believes.
Its almost a sad film and I didn't want to like it but, that's just a reaction to wanting to watch someone triumph. He doesn't triumph, he keeps living day after unremarkable day. Its the ugliness of people existing and running from death and pain our entire lives that the film, I find, puts a light on. A light that outshines his fame, followers, and even his own life.
In the end, I didn't find him to be a great man. I found him to be just another man. And that, I feel, was profound. It made a man out of a legend and not even that was done in a romantic way.
Its an unromantic film and I think that is as fitting a way to, be here now, as it could honestly have been.
Movie Review: Fierce Grace
Summary: 4 Stars
Recently, as I was recovering from pneumonia and feeling pretty depressed, a friend recommended I get a copy of Fierce Grace. As I watched clips of Ram Dass both before and after his stroke, I realized what suffering really was and that the human spirit always---even in the depths of pain, disease, or sorrow---has choices. When Spirit smacks us in the head with some kind of difficulty in our lives, we can either wallow in our suffering and fade away or we can accept the "fierce grace" Spirit has extended to us and grow. The message that healing is not a return to the way things were before we get sick or go through some kind of trauma, but rather the growth of spirit and consciousness that we can undergo as we come through difficulty stuck with me. My physical illness is gone, but I am not the same. For anyone facing a difficult time in his or her life, I highly recommend viewing this DVD.