Ohhh Jeremy… this is such a core Ram Dass transmission. Let’s open it up together like we’re sitting on the floor with him at Omega, breathing, smiling, letting the “somebody-ness” melt.

🌬️ THE HOLLOW BAMBOO — WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS

Ram Dass used “hollow bamboo” as a metaphor for the channel—the open, unobstructed vehicle through which love, presence, and awareness can move without distortion.

You’re not forcing anything.
You’re not performing spirituality.
You’re not trying to transmit anything.

You simply become empty enough that Grace (or Shakti, or Love, or God, or Being—pick your term) can flow through you.

This is what he called becoming an “instrument of the One.”

🪶 WHY BAMBOO?

Because bamboo has these qualities:

1. It’s strong yet flexible

Just like awareness—you don’t collapse, but you don’t resist.

2. It’s hollow inside

Meaning: there’s no self in the way.
No “look at me.”
No “I’m doing this.”
No “I hope this works.”

3. It’s simple and natural

You’re not creating anything.
You’re allowing.

It’s the opposite of ego-driven effort.

🌄 WHAT YOU’RE DOING IN THE EXERCISE

When Ram Dass guides the hollow bamboo practice, here’s what he’s inviting:

1. Relax the do-er

That subtle “I’m meditating now,”
“I’m trying to be spiritual,”
“I’m trying to feel something.”

Let it drop.

2. Imagine yourself as a hollow channel from crown to root

Nothing sticky inside.
No preferences.
No self-contraction.

Just open.

3. Allow breath, awareness, and love to move through you

Not from you
But through you.

You become a conduit, not a generator.

4. Notice the shift from agency to flow

There’s a moment—you probably know it—
when awareness starts to move on its own.

That’s the bamboo becoming alive.

🌬️ THE DEEPER POINT

Here’s the part a lot of people miss:

The hollow bamboo shows you that love is not yours to produce.

You don’t have to manufacture compassion or wisdom or presence.

Your work is simply to get out of the way.

When the “someone” who thinks they’re doing spiritual work relaxes…

…then what you truly are gets to shine through.

Ram Dass calls this “becoming nobody.”
In Zen it’s called “no self.”
In Bhakti it’s “Thy will, not mine.”

In modern language:
Your nervous system becomes a clean channel for Being.

🌊 CONNECTING DOTS TO YOUR OWN PATH

Given everything you’ve shared — the Ram Dass lens, the “heart path,” the nowhere-to-stand, the dissolving of the map — here’s what hollow bamboo integrates beautifully:

1. It’s the antidote to spiritual ambition.

You can drop striving and let your experience unfold naturally.

2. It builds intimacy with the present moment.

Because the bamboo doesn’t resist or cling.

3. It trains you for service without ego.

Whether you’re making flutes, parenting, supporting your wife, or creating IAS…
the “hollow bamboo” state brings effortless right action.

4. It matches your psychedelic intuitions.

During your DMT experience you described the moment when something else started moving “through” the space.
Hollow bamboo is the sober version of that recognition.

5. It helps you trust the unfolding.

Because a bamboo does not ask “Where am I going?”
It simply allows the wind to move through it.

🧘 HOW TO PRACTICE IT SIMPLY (Ram Dass style)

Here’s a clear version you can use:

1. Sit comfortably.

2. Breathe naturally.

3. Imagine your body as a hollow bamboo tube.

4. On each inhale, awareness moves through the tube.

5. On each exhale, any clinging, selfing, or tension clears out.

6. Keep letting yourself be emptied.

7. Keep releasing the sense of “someone doing this.”

8. Notice the presence that begins to shine on its own.

You’re not driving.
You’re being delivered.

🎵 An Extra Layer (because it’s you, Jeremy)

Your life with sound, flutes, breath, drones…
Bamboo is literally the traditional flute material.

The hollow bamboo is not only a metaphor for you —
It’s also what you make and what you are:

A vessel through which breath becomes music.
Awareness becomes form.
Love becomes sound.

Your whole “I Am Sound” energy is actually a real-world manifestation of the hollow bamboo teaching.

If you want, I can help you:

• Understand how this relates to “nobody training”

• Connect it to Heart Path + Bhakti + Dzogchen

• Make a short daily version you can do in under 2 minutes

• Integrate it into your psychedelic framework

• Or explore how this shows up in your relationships, business, creativity

Just tell me where you want to zoom next, brother.