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Ramdev invites us into a space of lasting joy and peace, revealing ways we can better relate to both personal and collective suffering.Today's podcast is also brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:Considering how the world is changing and how to respond to those changesLearning to love what is mortal and to be touched by the tragedy of being aliveDiscovering a deeper joy beyond pleasure and pain—even in the face of war, genocide, and global crisesDiscovering a deeper joy beyond pleasure and pain—even in the face of war, genocide, and global crisesCultivating unshakable inner peace and emotional resilience in turbulent timesAllowing ourselves to be moved by collective suffering rather than shutting down or turning awayTransforming grief into compassion through a sense of deep interconnectednessUnderstanding the key difference between pity and true compassionTraining ourselves to be grounded, centered, and to rest in equanimity Exploring ways we might take a vow of renunciation to look at our own habits and patternsCommitting to maintaining an open heart towards all people, all of the timeHow awareness of our own mortality can inform our actions in daily lifeTake the opportunity to support Ram Dass' Love Serve Remember Foundation and step into another dimension with a one-of-a-kind pair of custom Midnight Gospel sneakers. Hand-crafted by The Shoe Surgeon to replicate the iconic shoes worn by Clancy himself in the groundbreaking animated series by Duncan Trussell and Pendleton Ward.All proceeds benefit the Love Serve Remember Foundation and their work to preserve and continue the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. CLICK HERE to bid on the shoes and find more exciting one-of-a-kind collector's items at the LSRF Auction HERE."We have to learn to love what is mortal, to not spiritually bypass, to be touched by the tragedy, be touched by the suffering of others, be willing to be touched by our own suffering. Hold it against your bones as if your life depends on it, and when the time comes to let it go, let it go." – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Framing tantra as the capacity of wonder, RamDev shares how difficult emotions can be a portal for non-dual awareness, surrender, and bliss. This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses :Working with strong emotions and using them as fuel for awakening The difference between spiritual bypassing vs. heart-centered action to transmute negative experiencesApplying a tantric perspective to transform emotions in real-timeExperiencing the present moment's enlightened nature and recognizing divinity in all thingsBuilding a relationship with content via embodied mindfulness Stabilizing the mind, opening the heart, and loving whatever is going on Faith-based devotion and a sense of separation from divinity versus tantric devotion and a oneness with GodIdentification with the divine rather than only worship and how it leads to sacred union and transformation The heart as a bridge between spiritual realms and physical realityCultivating awe, wonder, and a deep appreciation for the divine nature of even the most mundane experiencesHow tantra dissolves the boundary between Samsara and Nirvana Emotions as portals for non-dual awareness and gateways into expanded states of consciousnessEmbracing fear and how it can lead to surrender, bliss, and liberation Engaging with political challenges through love and compassion, not hatredA short guided practice to help listeners release pain, accept the human condition, and trust in the boundlessness of the heart This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp and Dharma Seed: Join Buddhist Teacher David Nichtern and Duncan Trussell for a conversation about finding our own voice, our own expression, and our own way of connecting with people. Learn more about this FREE online gathering - AUTHENTIC PRESENCE: FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE Today's podcast is also brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self."It isn't just mindfulness we're talking about—it's mindfulness from the heart. Instead of gradually wearing away our resistance to the emotion or a little more quickly wearing it away because we're adding compassion, we can instantaneously transmute it because our heart is so open. There's a sense of even worship or communion, that even this emotion is an expression of the divine." – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev shares a tantric approach to transforming difficult emotions into spiritual wisdom by turning emotional poison into medicine. This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on :Learning to transform difficult emotions into wisdom through spiritual practiceRealizing that samsara and nirvana are one through the lens of tantric philosophyExploring the ‘disappointment' of enlightenment and the persistence of human sufferingCultivating deep intimacy with every part of life and all lived experiencesPracticing emotional grounding and staying present with all feelingsLinking quantum mechanics and consciousness with emotional and spiritual expansionUnderstanding the difference between traditional and tantric devotionRecognizing emotions as gateways to non-dual awareness and higher consciousnessUsing devotional practices to open and stabilize the heart in the face of sufferingLiving consciously to prepare for a more peaceful and intentional death Reflecting on political chaos as a possible catalyst for awakening in AmericaEmbracing the idea that everything unfolds within wholeness and divine perfectionThis episode is sponsored by Dharma Seed: Join Buddhist Teacher David Nichtern and Duncan Trussell for a conversation about finding our own voice, our own expression, and our own way of connecting with people. Learn more about this FREE online gathering - AUTHENTIC PRESENCE: FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE "We expect enlightenment to be everything's going to be fine, no pain in the body, no pain in the mind, no, there's still gonna be pain, we just have a very different relationship with it. We have to let go of the notion that we're going to fix everything. It's not about becoming happy, it's about becoming real, it's about becoming intimate with all of our experience."– RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev shares tokens of personal wisdom and encourages listeners to evaluate their practice in order to guide themselves and others on the spiritual path.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers wisdom on:Evaluating our practice and giving ourselves advice Helping others on the spiritual path The foundational work of dealing with fear, guilt, and shame Underestimating how attached we are to pleasant mindstates Right effort and sitting with our suffering rather than running awayDoing all things from the mindstate of guru seva versus egoConsidering what we have faith in and if we need heart work or mindfulness workLooking at how constant our practice is and how we can bring practice into daily activity Bare attention and mantra as a resource for continuous mindfulness Being centered as the perfect balance between stress and relaxation Developing spiritual confidence via facing uncomfortable feelings Holding space and being a guide for someone who is averse to spirituality "Running away from our demons makes them real. One of my main jobs as a guide is to tell people to sit still and be with that demon for a little while. Lean into it. Compassion can only arise after there is direct contact with the quality of suffering. You can't short-circuit that fundamental step. You can't heal something until you can meet it directly, nakedly, intimately."– RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Connecting grief, faith, and devotion, RamDev describes the spiritual price we pay when we ignore the fundamental grief we all experience.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev explains to listeners:The many forms that grief can come inGrief in our daily lives and feeling subtly separate from God and othersHow deep grief can shatter our faithFaith as an integral motivator for our practiceThe cyclical, positive relationship between faith and devotionHaving an intimate, faith-based relationship with griefOur addiction to grief and becoming lost in our painHow we can consciously work with griefOpening to our own grief in order to be fully compassionate to othersTrusting that we can become vulnerable and awaken to our own true natureNoticing sensations of grief and compassion for grief in our bodiesHaving appropriate boundaries when working with collective grief“Unresolved grief has a numbing effect. These effects tend to accumulate and block our free expressions of the heart. Our goal is not to stop grief, but to help process it in whatever ways it might arise.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ram Dev helps listeners recognize the divine nature and inner light that already exists inside of each one of us.In this episode, RamDev goes over:Incarnations of light as we move through the winter solsticeComing together in community to explore our inner lightNavigating grief through the holidaysThe divine presence that is beyond time and formThe light within us that is waiting to be recognizedA brief practice and visualization of a being of lightAccepting the true nature of reality and merging with the guruEgo death as the fundamental paradox of spiritual lifeHow clinging to the self blinds us from seeing the lightResting in the quiet mind in order to realize non-duality“When we're talking about divine incarnation, talking about the birth of the light, it's a moment to moment realization that we are more than our thoughts, our stories, our identities. The light that we seek is not something outside to be accomplished, not something that we need to attain. It is already within us waiting to be recognized.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ramdev teaches us how to adjust our practice and be a warrior of compassion during times of intense political change.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores: Non-aggressively confronting injusticeRecognizing when we are distractedNot running away from feelings that are challengingOperating from love rather than being reactiveReclaiming the brain and taking responsibility for our emotionsDevouring suffering with compassionHow the depth of one's mindfulness determines the depth of one's compassionRemembering our universal connection and that we are all sufferingOffering self-compassion and treating ourselves generouslyLearning to meet our edge as a path to enlightenmentLooking into the big unknown and the next four years“As long as we're blaming the environment for how we're feeling (I'm feeling really lousy because of the election, or there's too much traffic, or the weather isn't great), healing isn't happening. Drive all blames into oneself means you reclaim the blame and take responsibility for how you're feeling. The election is not making you feel a particular way, your set of conditioning in relationship to the election is creating certain emotions in you.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Explaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses: Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to othersRelationships as a mirror for how our practice is goingLessening one's self-absorptionHow fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationshipKeeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the worldBeing with our feelings and not getting lost in the storyAcknowledging when we are running awayUsing relationships to work on our spiritual growthMeeting the messiness of the human conditionSeeing the love within each person“Instead of relationship being only about comfort and enjoyment, and resenting it when it's not there, use it as the crucible of practice. Use it as the place that is revealing to you where your heart is closing. When your heart is closing to somebody else, really it's about not loving yourself. If you can love yourself completely, then you can be with everybody.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sharing stories of Maharaj-ji, RamDev discusses living a life of service and remembering that God, guru, and self are one.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev holds a talk on: Worshiping God in every form and through every personThe guru as the one who brings you to GodGod, guru, and self as oneLove and awareness as the path to the guruThe struggle of having blind faith in GodLessons on money and truthThe Tantric teachings of Maharaj-jiSacrificing thought and turning our minds to GodSimilarities between Maharaj-ji and ChristMaharaj-ji's encouragement to do mantra practiceThe sense of pure consciousness that is always there“Ram Dass actually summarized all of Maharaj-ji's teachings in three words: love, serve, remember. Love people, serve people, remember God.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Offering listeners a map to the heart, Ramdev explores how loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity interconnect.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on: The four qualities that lead to the heart (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity)Finding meaning through connection to self, others, and GodThe path of the heart versus the path of inquiryDying into the heart rather than attempting to find everything outHow on-going, unprocessed grief makes it difficult to open the heartTrusting both the light and the painEquanimity as the foundation of the heartHaving devotion to awareness and the sanghaThe many available paths to consciousnessInvoking that which we feel devotion to during our meditationsIntegrating practice into daily life“In the Bible, it talks about ‘pray without ceasing', and the only way you can do that is if your practice goes so deep into yourself that it's happening without you doing it because other times you're doing other things. The quality of the prayer saturates the cloth of your being, you're colored by the prayer.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: Chris' spiritual journey through AA and sobrietyHow Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knewSeeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in OjaiAllowing oneself to be sad for awhileConscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied wayThe raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful timesHow community and compassion helps us to healAccepting reality for what it isHow familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of lifeThe difficulty in cutting through illusionsThe importance of regular practiceAbout Chris Beaudry:Chris ‘Critter' Beaudry is a father, farmer, and public speaker who uses his lived experiences as grist for the mill for personal and spiritual growth. Read more about Chris HERE.“Life is hard. You're not getting out of this one alive. You're going to grieve, you're going to lose, that's the nature of reality. But, that doesn't mean we have to harden to it. That doesn't mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris BeaudrySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Explaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev guides listeners through: His favorite part of the Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 12)Service as the easiest path to awakeningHanuman as the aspect of the deity that expresses devotion through selfless serviceNaturally arising compassion and seeing God / the guru in all peopleHow suffering comes from having inappropriate boundariesApproaching service as an expression of love and joyPity as the near enemy of compassionBuilding communities that support serviceBeing of service through full presence and connectionThe many levels of healing and how to support others remotelyLearning compassion through simple moments of meditation“Service takes on a different tone, a different feeling quality in our beings, if instead of doing it out of guilt or I need to stay busy or I'm trying to help people, it's an act of love. It's your relationship with the beloved, that the homeless person, your partner, even your self, is a manifestation of that which is love. Then, service is transformed. It's an act of joy, not a responsibility.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In conversation with listeners, Ramdev explains how prayer unites us with God and prepares us to receive grace.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about: Prayer as the foundation of every religionHaving faith in the boundless qualities of GodLoving God with passionDifferent levels of prayerHow prayer unites us with God and prepares us for receiving graceAdmitting our humanness within our prayersListener perspectives on different styles of prayerPraying for help from our ancestors and for the healing of othersPrayer as an invitation for God to enter the heartHealing from shame and gradually trusting our inner wholeness“Prayer is the action of being able to receive the blessing of the sun. The warmth, the connectedness of the sunshine. We learn not only to pray for ourselves, but for all beings.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bringing the mind into the heart, Ram Dev elucidates how to let go of the ego and surrender into beingness.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev teaches on:Living out concepts after we understand themKeeping our heart open through all of life's mundane momentsSeparating from the chaos of the world and having an objective experienceHow a rigid attachment to the ego prevents progress in our practiceThe breath as an expression of pure wholenessHaving enough trust to surrender into centerednessDropping into the heart just as we would the breathSeeing God in everyone without the “I” judging everythingThe felt sense of pure awareness moment to momentUsing devotional practices as a way to realize non-duality“Can we begin to have a more compassionate relationship with the ‘I', the wrong use of the ‘I' that's getting in the way all of the time? It's not a civil war…it's the surrender of the outside doer into the felt experience of standing in front of the invisible lord.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Discussing why it is so difficult to open the heart, Ramdev provides practical lessons on how to rest in the heart-space more often.Today's episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev speaks about:Why it is so hard to open the heartThe Buddhist Heart Sutra and the nature of the heart as emptyThe quality of non-self and vast opennessThe theoretical versus the practicalHow resting in the heart frees us from the abyssThe way that emotions like fear and anger keep our heart closedUsing mantra to drill into the heartDevotion and compassion as the key parts of an open heartEverything as a display of pure consciousnessReceiving the grace that is always there“When we've lost connection with our heart, is there anything more important than stopping, feeling the suffering intimately, with mercy and tenderness?” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Examining the concept of faith, Ramdev talks about awakened fearlessness and surrendering during moments of fear.Today's episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev lectures on:How saints seem to have no fearThe principal of Sub Ek (all one)Being fearless through seeing God everywhereRamdev's own experience with terror and surrenderingDeath and being forced to look at what you have faith inHow we work with fearResting in the ‘I am' rather than the content of thingsRecognizing everything as the motherFear as the demon of the root chakraHow fear develops when we are infantsAnxiety surrounding emptiness“Fear is the demon of the root chakra. Fear is what is learned halfway through gestation to 2 years old when one doesn't feel safe. Fear comes before anger, fear comes before sadness.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on:Dealing with the subtle grief of being in the bodyThe illusion of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessRelaxing into perfection and the boundless nature of the heartTantra and seeing the beloved in everythingFinding opportunities in neutral momentsThe Tantric 3-step and nakedly contacting anger and difficult emotionsRepression and creating space for what must be releasedA guided meditation“We're going from this grief because we're feeling separate to compassion for this grief. This compassion reveals the empty nature of the heart, and then this Tantric understanding begins to awaken. Maybe that sounds like a lot of words, but it's a very somatic, immediate, intimate process that can be experienced right now.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev offers wisdom on receiving the body as an energetic entity we can utilize to enter into non-dual awareness.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers some wisdom on:The challenge of making our life a practiceExperiencing this in the body for full presenceEmbodiment perceived as emptinessHow unresolved trauma can get locked in the bodyRelaxation as a way to surrenderRegular stress versus mindful stressSamskaras and psychological imprints on the bodyA somatic angle to the tantric-three-stepThe inherent wakefulness within the bodyReceiving the body as an energetic entityWays that we can be in a flow state with our bodyA guided practice to enter into beingness“Resting in the body is difficult because unresolved trauma is locked in the body. There are sensations in the body, painful sensations. Relaxation is really an act of faith. Relaxation is about trust and surrender and trust and surrender are difficult as long as there's trauma there.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whether it is Christ, a guru, a loved one, or neighbor, RamDev helps us find the object of our devotion in each passing moment.In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:The inner and outer guruLetting go of identification with sufferingSeeing the forest versus getting lost in the treesThe grace within devotionHow our psychological integration determines what level of intimacy we will have with GodInhabiting the body and opening the heartWorshiping God in every formConscious grieving and deepening devotionSpaciousness and non-grasping as an antidote to fear“The guru isn't just something outside that we're in relationship with. Its everything, it's the whole universe. And, it's the practitioner. It's you, it's me. It's not something that's only there when we're feeling holy and sacred. Suppose you're saying a mantra, you're saying ram ram ram. From the standpoint of tantra, each time you say ram, it is ram. Each time you look in the mirror, it is ram. Each time you look at your partner or your child or your neighbor, it is ram. It is the mother.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev analyzes how distraction prevents us from experiencing boundless awareness and the ways we can develop qualities of spaciousness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:How to deal with distractionThe ways that war and politics can consume our mindsShifting between boredom and distraction/entertainmentWhat is behind our ongoing restlessnessThe fear of spaciousness and emptinessNoticing the impulse to fill up spaceHow compassion comes from having a heart that is spaciousDoing Mantras as a vehicle for emptinessAlternative ways to experience openness“The path of the dharma really requires that we develop the courage to look beyond our distractedness, to find what lies behind it, and to not necessarily feed ourselves with ongoing entertainment.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sharing her personal story with loss, yoga therapist Wendy Stern joins RamDev to talk about somatic grieving through yoga and mindfulness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this moving episode, RamDev and Wendy Stern converse about:Wendy's journey with yoga therapyHow the loss of her first born child, Noah, propelled Wendy into working with griefTurning to yoga as a sanctuary for exploring difficult emotionsHow visiting Bali and Thailand showed Wendy that death is just a part of lifeThe way that grief can open our heartsA new appreciation for life after lossWhat blocks westerners from enlightenmentThe split between the intellectual body and the emotional bodyThe tantric 3-step and mindful breathing curriculumThe profound changes that come from grieving in communityEvolving our cultural understanding of griefAccepting and acknowledging griefHow retreats can accelerate healingYoga postures for griefAbout Wendy Stern:Wendy dedicates her life's work to supporting people to heal and transform through the process of grief. Wendy has devoted the last 20 years to being a student and teacher of yoga. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and is certified as a yoga therapist, teacher, reiki practitioner and facilitator of yoga therapy groups for grief support and self-empowerment. Wendy offers a unique fusion of prana flow yoga and Phoenix Rising, interweaving deep, personal reflection into a vinyasa style class. Through Wendy's own personal journey with loss, she found herself deepened in her commitment to support others and birthed the Center for Somatic Grieving and the Grief Support Network.“Until you really have felt loss, until you've really inhabited your humanity in that way, for most people there is a place in the heart that hasn't broken open yet. It's in those broken places that God can come into each of us.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ram Dass joins RamDev for a moving conversation about their work with the dying and the importance of practice in the living/dying process that each of us will go through.In this revamped episode, RamDev and Ram Dass connect on:The formation of the living dying centerThe four Tibetan mind-turning truthsHow all fear can be tracked to a fear of deathEgo and the importance of faith in life and deathSpiritual bypassing and moving to a more centered place of beingHow the practices Ram Dass was given by Maharaj-ji helped him find his true selfA story about letting go and a mushroom trip in IndiaWhy we don't have to wait until we are dying to be honestThe interface between living and dyingThe practice of Bhakti“I find that light is your guru. Your guru meets you as you die.” – Ram Dass See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Using mindful awareness and compassion, RamDev walks listeners through the pathways to emotional freedom.Check out Ram Dev's new online course, A Practical Guide to Freedom: The Stages of Awakening, where you will come away with the wisdom and practices to integrate and embody the stages of the spiritual path so you can begin to surrender into the boundless nature of the heart.This time on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks into:Using emotions to dive into deeper parts of ourselvesPeeling through the layers of emotionsWays to be with our emotionsBeing with our sensations without getting lost in the storyLove and the ability to forgiveI am afraid versus I have fearCreating space between the emotion and the one who observesThe superego (our inner judge, jury, and executioner)Embodied mindfulness and compassionHaving compassion for our emotional demonsTantra and all emotions as awakened energyTurning obstacles into practice and presenceThe benefits of anxiety, anger, and sadnessThe sacred nature of all experiences“With attention, with being centered, we move from being reactive to a place where we can be with an emotion without either automatically pushing it away or automatically getting lost in that.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Concentrating on devotion, RamDev describes healing feelings of inadequacy and holding a deep compassion for the self and others.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about:- Devotion as the easiest way to open the heart- Self-worth and offering Compassion to ourselves- Trusting that everything is the Dharma unfolding- Becoming attached to God and Surrendering the false self- Intimacy with our teachings and guru via devotion- The relative deity versus the absolute deity- An evolution into Tantric devotion- Receiving grace in every moment- The four heavenly abodes in Buddhism and their enemies- Our tendency to be bothered and taking responsibility- A brief self-compassion and mindfulness practice- Imperfection as a part of the shared human experience- A quick Q and A with listeners on keeping an open heart and more“The far enemy of love is hatred, but the near enemy of love is attachment. It looks like love, it smells like love, but it causes suffering. Very often our love, which we can extend here to our devotion, is a mixture of true love and attachment.” – RamDev-----Discover the transformative practice of teaching mindfulness in a new FREE 30-page ebook by Senior Buddhist teacher and Emmy award-winning musician, David Nichtern. With its blend of humor, wisdom, and accessible approach, The Art of Teaching Mindfulness ebook is a must-read for anyone interested in sharing the life-changing practices of mindfulness with others.Already downloaded by over 15k people, visit dharmamoon.com/ebook to get YOUR free copy of The Art of Teaching Mindfulness!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Defining the meaning of fully conscious dying, RamDev shares the practices that can help all of us meet death with acceptance and awareness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode, RamDev elucidates:The stages of becoming fully consciousApproaching death as openly as possibleHow noticing our sensations around death can lead us to acceptanceSoftening our ability to be with difficult emotionsPreparatory practices for the ultimate surrenderThe false-self and an over-reliance on our identityGuru Yoga, Forgiveness Practice, and The Dissolving into Space MeditationBeing with the beloved and recognizing our oneness with all thingsMantra practice as a technique to go beyond dualityThe importance of devotion and compassionUsing Maharaj-ji and Christ as examples of being in love with GodRamDev and The Living/Dying Project are beyond thrilled to have Jon “Vasu” Seskevich present a 3-week series on navigating pain and uncertainty. In this series, attendees will learn strategies to navigate their own short and long-term uncertainties, including recovering from the pandemic, illness, aging and death. Learn more: Navigating Uncertainty“What we're exploring here is the possibility of tuning the string on the instrument of your life so that it is resonating in a beautiful way; noticing when it's too tight, noticing when it's too loose, coming back again and again to this balance of surrender from the heart.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Analyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:The fundamental misperception of who we areReality versus delusionForm, solidness, and sense of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessAnxiety produced from separatenessAppreciating the dream-like nature of thingsReadings from The Heart SutraLetting go of the urge to control our livesThe simplicity and complexity of surrendering / trusting GodDifferent types of anxietyEmptiness versus nothingness“Anxiety is telling us that we're lost in the fundamental delusion of solidness and separateness, that we don't really get the Buddhist notion of emptiness. A direct experience of emptiness, and then being able to stabilize emptiness, can be a way of working with anxiety.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How can we bring awareness and compassion to our emotions? This week, RamDev looks at how we can grow by forming a close relationship with our emotions.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowOn this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, we explore:Opening to the emptiness of emotionsBeing the lens that frames our experiencesTurning towards the raw energy of our emotions, rather than resisting themThe “egg-laying” breathing method Building the foundation for an open heart through grounding and centering“We liberate our emotions by seeing their empty nature.” – RamDev Dale BorglumSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowReflecting on the increase in collective fear that comes with moving into uncertain times, RamDev explores:- The qualities we can cultivate in response to the disruption caused by artificial intelligence- Our interconnected nature and how doing the inner work benefits all beings- The potential benefits and dangers of AI- The balance of wisdom and compassion- Discerning uncertainty from anxiety and working with those emotions- Dharma talks scripted by Chat GPT“By you working with your uncertainty, you're realizing that so many people are feeling the same poisonous emotion. By you having compassion for that, you're helping other beings because of our interconnected nature. You're doing this for all beings.” - RamDev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on:The motivations for our spiritual practiceLooking at how suffering is caused by how we are relating to our environmentSitting with discomfortThe different kinds of lazinessAlleviating suffering for other beingsThe path of working with Kali Remembering our connectedness to God“Right effort is the effort to surrender. It's not the effort to change, or fix, or do anything. It's the effort to keep remembering that our true nature is already whole.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fresh from a trip to Guatemala, RamDev guides us on letting go of separateness and surrendering into wholeness.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“Right now we can begin to rest in the wisdom that we are not the body and the personality. To the extent that we really get that, our true nature becomes revealed.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)Back from his Guatemalan adventure, RamDev returns to answer questions and discuss:Near-death experiences and how he answers the question, “What happens when you die?” Non-duality from the lens of Sri Nisargadatta Trusting the spaciousness of the open, compassionate heart The friction between grasping and surrendering Compassion as the stepping stone to non-duality and the nature of the open heart-mind Aloneness bringing us closer to onenessSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“Enlightenment is not something that is achieved. It is the revealing of what has always been here.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:The 5 different stages of the path of awakening: motivation, trust, compassion, tantra, and wholenessGrounding as the antidote to fear and anxiety, and a practice for integrating embodied mindfulness Centering as the antidote to guilt and shame, as well as judging and grandiosityBeing with feelings exactly as they are in the body, mind, and heartSeveral practices for playing with non-dualitySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Focusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The formlessness of the GuruThe Guru within the self and othersMaharaj-jiNon-dualistic self-realizationDevotion to truth and awarenessFinding the Guru in all aspects of reality"When we're talking about God or guru or self, it's such a small unimposing word compared to what the self is, compared to what the guru is. God is a nickname for reality. God is a nickname for everything." – RamDev Dale Borglum See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Describing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"The first level of surrender that allows us to receive is giving up a wish that things be different." – RamDev In this episode we hear RamDev Dale Borglum discuss:Transforming pain into cosmic joy Openheartedness and grace Global catastrophe and sufferingAbsolute Goodness and our intrinsic natureEnlightenment and Vulnerability Surrender in the various stages of practiceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"In this crazy 21st century in which we're living, for me, the most available and exciting practice is this notion of Tantra—of being able to be with anything and immediately go to its fundamental nature." – RamDev Dale BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:Wisdom from classic books Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Paul Reps, and The Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment, translated by Jai Deva Singh, both on ancient Vijñāna Bhairava—the 112 instructions from Shiva to the Goddess on how to immediately awakenThe connection within Tantra between love, emptiness, self, devotion, and compassionMaharajji's statement that "the best form to worship God is every from" and how everything is graceTantra, the Divine Mother, and devouring and digesting emotionsYoga versus TantraEmbodied mindfulness for transmuting emotion into the sacredGuru Yoga and identifying oneself with God/Deity and mantraSurrendering into love through non-graspingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"In Sanskrit there's not two words for heart and mind, there's one word. The heart is really the depth of the mind; the mind is the surface of the heart." – RamDev Dale BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The inherent connection between heart and mindLoss, grief, embodied mindfulness, trust, and boundariesDevotion and the qualities of an open heartSuffering, resistance, presence, and healingLove, attachment, equanimity, and compassionSpiritual practices for opening the heartA guided meditation on opening the heartmindSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Soften devotion and open to the idea of life as meditation with RamDev as he teaches us about seeing God in everything.In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev helps us discover being less rigid with meditation, loving like Christ, and embodying awareness in daily life. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, John Lockley, Ram Dev, Trudy Goodman, Lama Tsultrim Allione—FREE January 16 to 25. Sit in true peace, love, and tranquility. Join thousands of people around the world for this collective meditation experience: onecommune.com/ramdass “Instead of using meditation as a duty, something we are using to try and fix things, can it be this much softer accepting way of moving into innate tenderness?” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Enter into the luminous darkness as author and educator, Deborah Eden Tull, joins RamDev for this yin-focused dharma talk.Deborah Eden Tull is a zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author, and sustainability educator. She is also the founder of Mindful Living Revolution. She trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Deborah has lived in sustainable communities and as an organic gardener/farmer for decades and celebrates the essential wisdom of nature. She currently resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, originally Cherokee land, with her husband. She offers retreats, workshops, classes, and consultations nationally and internationally, integrating presence and partnership with nature. Her newest book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown, is now available for purchase.“There is power and resilience and love that awaits us when we are willing to turn towards and meet our shadows rather than push them away.” – Deborah Eden TullSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Closing the gap between ourselves and God, RamDev shows us the tantra of loving one thing so much that we can not help but love it all.“Our true nature, the nature of everybody, and the true nature of everything is what we were invoking in the first place. Everything is the play of pure consciousness.” – RamDevThis podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mirabai Starr, award-winning author, teacher, and grief counselor, chats with Ram Dev about mysticism and how to harness our grief for self-transformation.Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialogue. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Check out her latest book, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, and learn more at MirabaiStarr.com."I think that my experience of grief and my work as a grief counselor is about helping people to actually be with the power of that experience as a transformational invitation.” – Mirabai StarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev explores the four different stages on the path of devotion – the invocation stage, the loving-kindness stage, the Tantric stage, and the nondual stage. “My feeling is that eventually, devotion becomes addictive; devotion to awareness, having that open-hearted feeling becomes addictive. That you become crazy for anything but that.” – RamDevFind out more about RamDev's work at the Living/Dying Project: livingdying.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring core healing practices, RamDev shares on motivation, embodied mindfulness, inspiration, trust, self-compassion, and turning suffering into joy."Are we practicing so we can run away from suffering and push it away? Or are we practicing because we want the truth? If we really want the truth, then suffering is gonna be grace. Suffering is showing us in fine perfect detail where your heart is still closed, where you're not trusting the Dharma, where you're not trusting that Maharaj-ji is always in communion with you." – RamDev Dale BorglumFind out more about RamDev's work at the Living/Dying Project: livingdying.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nina Rao joins RamDev Dale Borlgum to share in the simple yet powerful devotion of repeating mantras. Nina Rao is a devotional singer. She tours with Krishna Das, playing cymbals, singing, and acting as his business manager. Nina has two of her own albums, "Antarayaami - Knower of All Hearts" and “Anubhav”. Nina regularly leads kirtan, workshops, and retreats in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York and beyond. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.