Ram Dass's Seva Foundation funded surgeries restoring sight to 5.5 million
Jack Kornfield · Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm · Jan 10, 2023 · at 1:14:57
Jack Kornfield discusses vulnerability and service, citing the charitable work of his late friend and spiritual teacher Ram Dass.
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“Again, going back to my, your friend Ram Dass, as a teacher, he also started something called Seva Foundation, which still is doing surgeries to restore sight for blind people around the world. And he got a whole group of really great people to do it. His, you know, musician friends like the Grateful Dead to give them tons of money and various other people. And so forth, and they've now restored sight to five and a half million blind people”
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