Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum

Exploring tantra, self-compassion, and embodied presence, RamDev guides listeners down the heart's path.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• Shifting our relationship with our body and mind
• The path of tantra and relating to life from a place of fullness
• Conventional devotion (faith-based worship) vs. Tantra (direct-experience of the divine)
• Becoming aware through focusing on one of the five senses
• Seeing the guru in simple moments
• The gradual path to awakening and having compassion for oneself along the way

“We have to allow ourselves to fully touch and be touched by each moment of this living vibration, not permanently detaching from experience, contacting it intimately and safely enough through the heart that it can reveal its changing, spacious nature.” –RamDev

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and, since 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books, and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctoral degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

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Acknowledging our oneness with the divine and the abundance of the present moment, Ramdev offers a reflection on transforming scarcity and fear into gratitude and love.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Working through our sense of scarcity
• The illusion of separateness
• Trusting that love is enough in an age of fear
• Handing our fear to the divine mother, to God, to Christ
• Transforming inadequacy and resting in abundance
• Trusting in the source and realising we are one
• Keeping an open heart during turbulent times
• Seeing all things as a necessary part of the divine play

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and, since 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books, and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctoral degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“Each moment becomes an opportunity for feeling gratitude, not because of how much you have or what you want, but just for the moment itself. What you are longing for is not something in the future; it’s fullness in this moment.” –RamDev

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Including a guided meditation, RamDev offers practical steps to deal with the chaos of the world in a mindful, nonresistant way.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev outlines:

• Mindful stress and improving our well-being
• Finding a sense of presence while the world appears to be crumbling around us
• Working with collective trauma through embodied mindfulness
• Being with what is going on right now without resistance
• Feeling an emotion without wondering why we are experiencing it
• Dropping into meditation, creating a revolution of the heart

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and, since 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books, and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctoral degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

"How can we deal with all these things going on that seem to be out of control and yet find a sense of presence and calmness in this crumbling world?” –RamDev

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RamDev takes listeners through the three faces of the heart, each of which serves a different, necessary purpose and combines into nondual awareness.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev chats about:

• What Maharaj-ji said about being in the heart
• How the heart center stabilizes presence
• Starting practice as human, and standing up as divine
• The left, relational heart: feeling, devotion, intimacy, grief, longing
• The right side of the heart and the arising of witness consciousness
• Nondualism and combining wisdom with warmth
• The greatest medicine for the fear of death

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“If we only live in the left side of the heart, devotion can become too emotional. The feeling becomes the practice instead of the doorway to deeper qualities of the heart. Grief, if we are only in the left side of the heart, can loop, can continue without metabolizing. The heart can stay open, but it’s not grounded. The practitioner gets blown away by the emotions of daily life.” –RamDev

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Through faith, meditation, and surrender to the divine, RamDev explores the art of resting in presence—embracing all of life, light and dark alike.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev chats about:

• Recognizing that presence is always there, whether the mind is calm or not
• How having faith in presence will actually quiet the mind
• A short guided meditation
• Seeing God in everything rather than trying to figure everything out
• Taking inspiration from Rumi and resting in the heart-cave
• Finding the space to be with what we feel, rather than wondering why we are feeling it
• Giving up our identity and story and being in presence itself
• Searching for an embodied sense of self which unites with The One
• Accepting both the dark and the light
• The poem Lovedogs by Rumi
• Living without resistance to the divine unfolding of reality

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“We in the West tend to think of presence or God as something positive, pleasant, and enjoyable, and yet, it’s all presence. There is nothing that isn’t.” –RamDev

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Teaching listeners how to get out of the mind and trust in the heart, RamDev guides us through embodied faith practices.

“Faith is not certainty, it’s steadiness inside uncertainty.” –RamDev

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• Having faith within our hearts rather than only our minds
• Using sensation as a gateway into experiencing presence
• How talking about something trivial can allow us to enter the heart space
• The moving, changing nature of the mind
• Softening into the body and releasing tension
• Maintaining steadiness in the midst of uncertainty
• Trusting in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
• Noticing the subtle changes in the fields of our 5 senses
• Wisely and compassionately responding to the next moment
• Guru Yoga: Installing the deity into your body

“To trust in the heart has a lot to do with trusting being in the body. It’s very difficult to be thinking and be with your sensations at the same time. The heart is a felt experience.” –RamDev

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Explaining how collective grief may manifest as anger, RamDev teaches listeners how they can transform negative emotions into compassionate action.

"It’s imperative to feel permission to feel your own grief, to not feel you have to get over it." –RamDev

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• The universal experience of grief
• The weight of broken promises in America
• How grief was handled more collectively in traditional societies
• The diluting force of anger and moments of tunnel vision
• When anger can actually be a productive response to grief
• What the Buddha said regarding anger
• Learning to be with grief without bypassing, suppressing, or drowning in it
• Resting in sky-like boundlessness, watching emotions pass like the weather

"The energy of anger as a grief response can be a productive response if we can begin to work with the emotion. What does it feel like? How can I transmute the feeling of anger into compassionate action? There is a lot of very powerful, strong juice behind the anger. It can be harnessed. It can be used to protest, to create change.” –RamDev

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok

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Navigating boundaries through self-honesty and staying grounded, Ramdev teaches listeners how to say no with an open heart.

“It's pretty easy to say no with a closed heart. It's pretty easy to say yes with an open heart. But, can you say no with an open heart?" –RamDev

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• The seven chakras throughout our development
• Feeling worthy of receiving the profound blessings in each moment
• The psychological perspective of boundaries: saying no lovingly
• Getting into the energetic body of boundaries
• The necessity of being centered & grounded in order to set boundaries
• Opening to God and others without being overwhelmed
• Leaving behind fear, guilt, and shame in order to accept love and keep the heart open
• Practicing self-honesty and mindfulness so that we can set strong boundaries

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“Would it be possible to have good, strong, appropriate boundaries if you were not centered in the first place? Would it be possible to have some ongoing loving relationship with yourself, with God, with another human being, if you were not centered?” –RamDev

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Cultivating spiritual intimacy, presence, and love beyond emotion, RamDev explores stabilizing the heart by deeply rooting love into the second chakra.

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers insights on:

• Rooting love into our lower belly versus the heart
• Sensing a deeper kind of lasting, foundational love within our second chakra
• Love, which is more faithful and devotion-based rather than emotion-based
• Concerning oneself with being loved rather than feeling love
• How can we love our neighbor and worship God in every form?
• Working with pain through spirituality
• Repeating mantras from the belly
• Coming into intimate contact with death

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

"One of the most reliable ways to stabilize love is to seed it, to feel it down in the lower belly, the pelvis, the second chakra. This is not a withdrawal from the heart, but a rooting of love into embodiment, gravity.” –RamDev

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RamDev reflects on the simultaneous depth and simplicity of mantra, highlighting his own transcendent experiences across devotional practices.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:

• Receiving miracles from Hanuman and the sense that all things are already taken care of
• The power and depth of mantra practice, despite its simplicity
• Shifting from mechanical repetition to embodied feeling and heartfelt presence within the mantra
• Allowing mantra practice to soften, open, and color the heart with devotion
• Conventional devotional practice and making a bridge to God
• Entering tantric devotion as a path of unity—becoming one with the deity rather than worshipping from afar
• Becoming the essence of the mantra and awakening the divine energy in our bodies
• Drawing comparisons between tantric devotion and the Buddhist Heart Sutra
• Realizing that it is all one as we transcend through layers of devotion

“You are the essence of the mantra. The mantra is not a tool, a pointer, a technique; it's the full manifestation of the divine. It’s awakening divine energy into your body with each repetition.” –RamDev

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Exploring embodiment and self-realization, RamDev takes listeners on a journey through the four paths of yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and Raja Yoga.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Karma Yoga, holding both success and failure equally—offering everything to God
• Bhakti Yoga and dissolving the ego through devotion
• The obstacles of Bhakti: getting lost in emotions and secularism
• Jñāna Yoga, the path of philosophical and contemplative minds
• The importance of allowing clarity and knowledge to serve compassion
• Raja Yoga, the path of meditation and discipline
• Looking at crises as motivation for doing more practice
• Blending yogic paths for the synthesis of head, heart, and mind
• The benefit of sticking to one path for a deeper experience
• Becoming embodied in order to heal addiction and trauma
• How crucial it is to go beyond conceptual reality

“Modern practitioners often blend these paths. Bhakti softens Jñāna’s austerity, Karma Yoga grounds devotion and service, Raja Yoga provides stability and focus. The synthesis of head, heart, and mind is the integral yoga of our age.” –RamDev

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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RamDev shares how to make every moment a living prayer, carrying the essence of mantra and devotion into both the sacred and the mundane.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• RamDev’s personal struggles with integrating practice into his daily life
• Bringing heartfulness into mundane activities as a form of ceaseless prayer/practice
• Practicing out of richness, abundance, and adequacy, rather than out of need, separation, and inadequacy
• Making connectedness ongoing and constant, rather than something we struggle to find
• The compelling story of Raghu Markus and an answered prayer from Maharaj-ji
• Prayers of adoration, rejoicing, and gratitude
• Receiving direction and guidance through our prayers
• ‘Good pain’, aka, the pain of being released and of tension going away
• Trusting in the divine and surrendering in each moment

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“Every moment is open to one of these kinds of prayer. How much can we trust integrating a prayerful attitude, heartfelt surrender to the divine into each moment, whether it’s a moment of gratitude, grief, intercession, thanksgiving, so many different possibilities.” –RamDev

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Through teachings on non-duality and the illusion of separateness, RamDev explains how true healing comes from recognizing our inherent wholeness.

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In this episode, RamDev gives a thoughtful talk on:

• Resting in wholeness and non-duality in order to heal all parts of ourselves
• Seeing through the illusion of separateness instead of labeling ourselves or others as “broken”
• Understanding the ego and the ‘I’ that suffers, and learning to release fixation on identity
• Insights from Maharaj-ji and other gurus on awakening beyond duality
• Opening the heart of compassion and experiencing its boundless, healing presence
• The tantric revelation that all experiences are sacred, even the painful or uncomfortable ones
• How wholeness becomes contagious, reflecting others’ true nature and innate completeness
• Rediscovering the awareness that is already present within us
• Trusting in our true nature, and allowing suffering to transform rather than resisting it

“Until we realize that we’re already whole, we have healing work to do. Healing body, healing mind, healing spirit. We’re really not talking about healing illnesses. We are freeing capacities that have been limited and constricted in the past. The deepest healing. Healing everything.” –RamDev

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Focusing on grounding practices, RamDev shares spiritual wisdom on how to transform fear, guilt, and shame into love and mercy.

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In this episode, RamDev gives insightful perspectives on:

• The instability of the heart and how fear, guilt, and shame keep us closed off
• Why we are so reactive to the chaos of world events and how to respond with wisdom instead
• Practical ways to work with fear, guilt, and shame so the heart can open moment to moment
• Embracing our divine nature without denying our humanness
• The power of grounding and trusting in the body as a source of safety
• Learning to fully receive the support of the earth and the Divine Mother
• Living in a third chakra society where power is out of balance
• Becoming an embodiment of mercy and compassion rather than idolizing power

“Fear, guilt, and shame are the demons of the first, second, and third chakras, respectively, and until we have worked with those emotions in a direct way, it is really impossible for the heart to be open in a stable way.” – RamDev

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Through the selfless practices of Tantra and Guru Yoga, RamDev outlines how to have a conscious relationship with anger rather than allowing it to consume us.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev gives a talk on:

• Having a neutral view of anger (not good v. bad) and consciously allowing ourselves to feel it
• Recognizing anger as a valid response to the state of the world
• Seeing all beings and experiences—even those that trigger anger—as expressions of the Divine
• Noticing that we are often not angry for the reasons we think we are
• Lessening one’s self-absorption as a key point of the spiritual path
• Cultivating gratitude and appreciation for everyone we encounter
• Exploring Guru Yoga: merging with the guru’s wisdom and presence
• Realizing our inherent wholeness and receiving blessings from the guru
• Becoming nobody so that there is no one to become lost in anger
• Transmuting outer devotion to tantric, inner devotion
• Feeling anger and sadness without becoming consumed by it
• Remembering that the same shakti fueling anger can also power creativity

“Anger is not good or bad. Anger is often a reasonable response to what is going on in the world. Yet, it is a difficult emotion because it’s so hot, and it’s often very sudden. In Buddhism, fear and anger are thought to be the same emotion.” – RamDev

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As a path to eternal vigilance and ultimately, cessation of suffering, Ramdev encourages us to tune into the present moment during times of mundanity and neutrality.

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In this episode, RamDev offers a balanced perspective on:

• Practicing awareness during neutral, mundane, or transitional moments
• The four Buddhist foundations of mindfulness (body, mind, feelings, dharma)
• The three Buddhist characteristics of existence (impermanence, suffering no self)
• Working skillfully with neutral states so that we are prepared for both joy and adversity
• Embracing eternal vigilance as a tool for inner transformation
• Observing the process of thinking instead of getting caught in thought content
• Asking the powerful question: “How alive do I want to be?”
• Practicing loving-kindness (metta) and checking in with our inner states and levels of connectedness
• Shifting our mental habits to move from unconsciousness toward greater conscious awareness

“What I notice, if I am not paying attention to neutral states, that almost always there is this eternal monologue going on and it’s a way of the ego saying ‘I’m here’. One of the most direct practices I have found for not getting lost in that inner monologue during so many of these neutral moments is learning the practice of watching the mind—Not what you're thinking about, but being aware of thinking itself.” – RamDev

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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.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• Considering how the world is changing and how to respond to those changes
• Learning to love what is mortal and to be touched by the tragedy of being alive
• Discovering 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 crises
• Cultivating unshakable inner peace and emotional resilience in turbulent times
• Allowing ourselves to be moved by collective suffering rather than shutting down or turning away
• Transforming grief into compassion through a sense of deep interconnectedness
• Understanding the key difference between pity and true compassion
• Training 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 patterns
• Committing to maintaining an open heart towards all people, all of the time
• How awareness of our own mortality can inform our actions in daily life

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"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." – RamDev

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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 experiences
• Applying a tantric perspective to transform emotions in real-time
• Experiencing the present moment’s enlightened nature and recognizing divinity in all things
• Building 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 God
• Identification 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 reality
• Cultivating awe, wonder, and a deep appreciation for the divine nature of even the most mundane experiences
• How tantra dissolves the boundary between Samsara and Nirvana
• Emotions as portals for non-dual awareness and gateways into expanded states of consciousness
• Embracing fear and how it can lead to surrender, bliss, and liberation
• Engaging with political challenges through love and compassion, not hatred
• A short guided practice to help listeners release pain, accept the human condition, and trust in the boundlessness of the heart

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"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." – RamDev

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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 practice
• Realizing that samsara and nirvana are one through the lens of tantric philosophy
• Exploring the ‘disappointment’ of enlightenment and the persistence of human suffering
• Cultivating deep intimacy with every part of life and all lived experiences
• Practicing emotional grounding and staying present with all feelings
• Linking quantum mechanics and consciousness with emotional and spiritual expansion
• Understanding the difference between traditional and tantric devotion
• Recognizing emotions as gateways to non-dual awareness and higher consciousness
• Using devotional practices to open and stabilize the heart in the face of suffering
• Living consciously to prepare for a more peaceful and intentional death
• Reflecting on political chaos as a possible catalyst for awakening in America
• Embracing the idea that everything unfolds within wholeness and divine perfection

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"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."– RamDev

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RamDev shares tokens of personal wisdom and encourages listeners to evaluate their practice in order to guide themselves and others on the spiritual path.

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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 away
• Doing all things from the mindstate of guru seva versus ego
• Considering what we have faith in and if we need heart work or mindfulness work
• Looking 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."– RamDev

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