LOVE, SERVE, REMEMBER

A Nonprofit Foundation To Preserve and Continue the Teachings of Neemkaroli Baba and Ram Dass

Advisors Circle Mohan Baum Rev. Michael Beckwith Chuck Blitz Rose Boyle Girija Brilliant Larry Brilliant Malik Cotter Krishna Das Surya Das Wayne Dyer Rukmini Forrest Bernie Glassman Roshi Joseph Goldstein Dan Goleman Tara Goleman Paul Gorman Wavy Gravy Stan Grof Joan Halifax Charlie Halpern Peggy Hitchcock Jack Kornfield Steve Jones Bokara Legendre Mickey Lemle Tom Lesser Josh Mailman Bruce Margolin Tara Margolin Parvati Markus Sunanda Markus Ralph Metzner Lalita Kate Rabinowitz Raj Rajan Stefan Rechtschaffen Gelek Rinpoche Deanna Rose Ira Rose Jonathan Rose Krishna Kumar Sah Sharon Salzberg Sridhar Silverfein Maggie Spiegel

Dear Friends,

Ram Dass is still here now, bridging oceans and generations with his wisdom. Maharaji once said, “You can plan for 500 years but you don’t know what will happen the next moment.” That was true when Ram Dass had a major stroke a decade ago and it remains so today. A group of us close to Ram Dass are coordinating efforts to support his teachings, make them more available to the public, and create an environment to sustain those teachings and writings in ways appropriate to this time of his life. Now we need your support, too.

We have put together a new foundation called Love Serve Remember. It will disseminate the spiritual teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. It will support Ram Dass’ current online teaching (at www.ramdass.org) and archive and digitize his lectures and writings so they will be more widely available. LSR also sponsors residential Ram Dass retreats in Hawaii, satsang gatherings, webcasts, and online dialogs with other teachers to keep the spiritual channel open to Ram Dass. For more information on the foundation, go to www.ramdass.org.

Although Ram Dass’s health no longer permits him to travel and lecture, he still has the unique ability to bring his yoga of the heart to issues of living a life of integrity, aging, and joyful acceptance of each moment. Now we want to enable him to do what he does best -- teaching individuals or small groups in person in a quiet setting and online. This is the kind of teaching that we all have come to appreciate. The bottom line (as it were) is that to do it we need your help.

LSR has leased a house in Hawaii for its offices, archives, web site and webcasts, where Ram Dass can conduct residential retreats and have a space for his teaching and writing. LSR organizes Ram Dass retreats with Krishna Das and others, satsang gatherings, and his online webcasts. We have created a comfortable guest space next to the house, where Ram Dass will supervise individual retreats that will cover part of the rent. Seekers from around the world can visit Ram Dass and enjoy the extraordinary peace and tranquility of Maui. www.ramdass.org/retreats

Increasingly, as time goes on, most of Ram Dass’s teaching will be through the website, expanding the heart of cyberspace. Eventually, we hope that contributions through the site will make Ram Dass’s public teaching self-sustaining. (Please visit www.ramdass.org and enjoy its wealth of content.) We also hope to motivate thousands of friends and devotees on My Space and Facebook, Obama-style, to join the online satsang. But until that stream is flowing, we need your help.

Please consider giving a monthly pledge: We are looking for 108 people to give at least $108 a month and 1008 people to give $18 a month. And everyone else to donate as generously as you can, so we can all together make it possible for Ram Dass to continue the teaching that taught so many of us to be here now!

With deep love and appreciation,

Jack Kornfield
Dan and Tara Goleman
Sharon Salzberg
Krishna Das
Frank Ostaseski

and the Board of Directors, Love Serve Remember Foundation:

Raghvindra Das Markus, President
Mirabai Bush, Treasurer
Rameshwar Das Lytton, Secretary/Vice-president
Gopal/ Paul Singer, Esq.

LSR has received its 501(c)(3) non-profit designation from the IRS and contributions are tax deductible as allowed by law. Electronic transfer information is available on request, and donations may also be made by credit card at www.ramdass.org/LoveServeRemember. Send checks to LSR Foundation, 23852 PCH # 762, Malibu, Ca 90265. For more information, LSR@ramdass.org

Please feel free to post this letter on blogs and websites or forward it to friends, satsang or groups who would like to hear news of Ram Dass.