Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum (Be Here Now Network)

In this episode, Dale talks about the joy of taking refuge.   When we take refuge, we are seeking sanctuary in awareness, truth, and connectedness. Dale reminds us to let go and teaches us the joy of taking refuge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dale brings on his friend Donnie Nelson, RN, to talk about working with trauma and death. Donnie is a palliative care nurse in the San Fransisco area. During a moment of crisis, Donnie discovered Dale's teachings which transformed how Donnie approached his life and career. Hear Donnie's journey and how his practice has allowed him to better care for his patients and their families in times of crisis and suffering. How does becoming grounded allow us to keep trauma at a distance? In  the midst of America's heated political race, how do we discuss important issues without losing ourselves? Dale and Donnie discuss this and more on this episode of  "Healing at the Edge".   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale chats with writer Anne Lamott about spirituality and politics. They discuss keeping an open heart and finding compassion while navigating the divisive political landscape. We are reminded by Anne and Dale that surrendering to compassion means having compassion for ourselves and our enemies, as well as our friends. Showing compassion for ourselves allows us to overcome our imperfections by accepting them. It is simply up to us to surrender to compassion. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dale speaks with Melanie Bien, who has dedicated herself to working on the street with the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team. The two met a few years ago at a retreat led by Dale, after the death of Melanie’s mother. Melanie and Dale discuss how the practice that she has cultivated counterbalances the deep suffering she is exposed to on a daily basis. Reminding us that to have love and compassion means giving it to ourselves and our enemies as much as anyone else. “Love is contagious, those who haven’t got it catch it from those who do.” – Meher Baba See 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.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:

• How to deal with distraction
• The ways that war and politics can consume our minds
• Shifting between boredom and distraction/entertainment
• What is behind our ongoing restlessness
• The fear of spaciousness and emptiness
• Noticing the impulse to fill up space
• How compassion comes from having a heart that is spacious
• Doing Mantras as a vehicle for emptiness
• Alternative 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.” – RamDev

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Explaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses: 

• Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to others
• Relationships as a mirror for how our practice is going
• Lessening one’s self-absorption
• How fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationship
• Keeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the world
• Being with our feelings and not getting lost in the story
• Acknowledging when we are running away
• Using relationships to work on our spiritual growth
• Meeting the messiness of the human condition
• Seeing 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.” – RamDev

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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. 

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On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev explores the nature of compassion and forgiveness, especially in the face of divisiveness, suffering, and difficult emotions. 

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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 solstice
• Coming together in community to explore our inner light
• Navigating grief through the holidays
• The divine presence that is beyond time and form
• The light within us that is waiting to be recognized
• A brief practice and visualization of a being of light
• Accepting the true nature of reality and merging with the guru
• Ego death as the fundamental paradox of spiritual life
• How clinging to the self blinds us from seeing the light
• Resting 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.” – RamDev

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev dives deeply into the subjects of devotion and faith, plus leads a guided meditation that incorporates a practice called guru yoga.

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Dale Borglum shares a reflection on revealing the true nature of the heart through the cultivation of compassion.

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On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale shares daily heart practices that allow us to cultivate compassion and change our relationship with grief.

 

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev lays out a pathway to move past the ego's fear and suffering, using concentration, mindfulness, devotion, love, and wisdom to expand our sense of self.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev explores the path of love and devotion, sharing stories of Maharajji and outlining practices for dying into love.

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Ram Dev explores how mantras can be practiced at different stages of development, and how they help us in going beyond just being lost in the content of our lives.

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Exploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. 

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“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 wholeness
• Grounding 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 grandiosity
• Being with feelings exactly as they are in the body, mind, and heart
• Several practices for playing with non-duality

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Devour or Be Devoured—Ram Dev illuminates ancient Tantric approaches for digesting emotion, stress, suffering & trauma in the modern world.

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Tying together previous topics around working with stress, dancing the Tantric 3-Step, and Devouring The Mother, Ram Dev outlines foundational Tantric wisdom around dissolving samskaras, transmuting energy, and digesting emotion rather than being devoured by life.

"There's an attitude that makes this total devouring of energy much more possible: an attitude of amazement or wonder, 'Wow, my mind is really angry right now!" You can cultivate being fascinated in your emotional reactions without believing or disbelieving them, but being curious about where it's coming from." – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)

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On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev speaks with Charmaine Kachibaia, who is training to be a death doula, about working with the dying as a spiritual practice.

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RamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature.

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"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 Borglum

In 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 awaken
• The connection within Tantra between love, emptiness, self, devotion, and compassion
• Maharajji's statement that "the best form to worship God is every from" and how everything is grace
• Tantra, the Divine Mother, and devouring and digesting emotions
• Yoga versus Tantra
• Embodied mindfulness for transmuting emotion into the sacred
• Guru Yoga and identifying oneself with God/Deity and mantra
• Surrendering into love through non-grasping

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Dale Borglum talks about the true meaning of tantra with Elena Bussolati, a yoga teacher and Living/Dying Project adjunct volunteer.

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Chris Britt returns to Healing at the Edge for a conversation with Ram Dev about inhabiting the body as a path to spiritual awakening, and why the body channel of healing is so important. 

Chris Britt combines stories, humor, magic, mindfulness and embodiment techniques to help us navigate through these difficult times. Learn more about him at chrisbritt.com.

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Dale Borglum shares a dharma talk and meditation around opening the heart in a way that allows for rest in God's presence.

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In this dharma talk, Dale reflects on passion, compassion, and suffering, and leads a compassion meditation called Tonglen practice.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption.

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Reflecting 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)

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This week on the Healing at the Edge podcast, Dale explores the 3-step process of using tantric practice to overcome suffering.

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“We go beyond there being a ‘me’ having an emotion and it is more about the relationship – more of a sense that the emotion itself is an expression of divine reality.” – Dale Borglum (Ram Dev)  

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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 Tull

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Sharing her personal story with loss, yoga therapist Wendy Stern joins RamDev to talk about somatic grieving through yoga and mindfulness.

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In this moving episode, RamDev and Wendy Stern converse about:

• Wendy’s journey with yoga therapy
• How the loss of her first born child, Noah, propelled Wendy into working with grief
• Turning to yoga as a sanctuary for exploring difficult emotions
• How visiting Bali and Thailand showed Wendy that death is just a part of life
• The way that grief can open our hearts
• A new appreciation for life after loss
• What blocks westerners from enlightenment
• The split between the intellectual body and the emotional body
• The tantric 3-step and mindful breathing curriculum
• The profound changes that come from grieving in community
• Evolving our cultural understanding of grief
• Accepting and acknowledging grief
• How retreats can accelerate healing
• Yoga postures for grief

About 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.” – RamDev

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On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev (Dale Borglum) talks about how compassion is not an emotion, but a state of being; it is keeping an open heart amidst suffering.

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Illuminating the essence Tantric Devotion, Ram Dev leads a guided 'Guru Meditation' before sharing on the Divine Mother, the Unmanifest Absolute, Buddhism, emotions, and nonduality.

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Illuminating the path of Oneness, Ram Dev embarks on an exploration of nonduality and shares a guided meditation practice inviting us into the spacious, blissful essence of the non-grasping mind.

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Dale Borglum presents a talk on ways we can soften physical pain by separating our identification with it.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks at meditation as a spiritual path itself, leads two different guided meditations, and explores the concept of emptiness.

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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 guru
• Letting go of identification with suffering
• Seeing the forest versus getting lost in the trees
• The grace within devotion
• How our psychological integration determines what level of intimacy we will have with God
• Inhabiting the body and opening the heart
• Worshiping God in every form
• Conscious grieving and deepening devotion
• Spaciousness 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.” – RamDev

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RamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on:

• Dealing with the subtle grief of being in the body
• The illusion of self
• Directly experiencing emptiness
• Relaxing into perfection and the boundless nature of the heart
• Tantra and seeing the beloved in everything
• Finding opportunities in neutral moments
• The Tantric 3-step and nakedly contacting anger and difficult emotions
• Repression and creating space for what must be released
• A 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.” – RamDev

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Dale Borglum shares stories of his time with Ram Dass from the early days of the Satsang, and reflects on what Ram Dass meant to him as a teacher and friend.

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Kristin Neff, Ph.D. joins Ram Dev to discuss the relationship between suffering, stress, mindfulness, and fierce self-compassion.

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Kristin Neff, Ph.D. is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct almost twenty years ago. Along with being a Buddhist practitioner, she also recently released a book entitled, Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive. In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an eight-week program to teach self-compassion skills in daily life, co-created with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer, called Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). For more info, visit Self-Compassion.org

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Examining the concept of faith, Ramdev talks about awakened fearlessness and surrendering during moments of fear.

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In this episode, RamDev lectures on:

• How saints seem to have no fear
• The principal of Sub Ek (all one)
• Being fearless through seeing God everywhere
• Ramdev’s own experience with terror and surrendering
• Death and being forced to look at what you have faith in
• How we work with fear
• Resting in the ‘I am’ rather than the content of things
• Recognizing everything as the mother
• Fear as the demon of the root chakra
• How fear develops when we are infants
• Anxiety 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.” – RamDev

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In this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, Ram Dev unfolds the teachings behind his favorite quotes from Ram Dass.

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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 injustice
• Recognizing when we are distracted
• Not running away from feelings that are challenging
• Operating from love rather than being reactive
• Reclaiming the brain and taking responsibility for our emotions
• Devouring suffering with compassion
• How the depth of one’s mindfulness determines the depth of one’s compassion
• Remembering our universal connection and that we are all suffering
• Offering self-compassion and treating ourselves generously
• Learning to meet our edge as a path to enlightenment
• Looking 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.” – RamDev

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Redefining emotions as healing messages, Ram Dev shares the tantra of emotions, illustrating how spacious mindfulness towards our feelings opens gateways to wholeness.

Sharing insights into working with our wide variety and volume of our emotional states, Ram Dev explores, through a tantric lens, how we can begin to open up to our inner feelings, rather than shying away from them and projecting outwardly. Defining our emotions and laying a tiered pathway for working with them, Ram Dev imbibes wisdom of the Divine Mother, inviting us to 'devour, or be devoured,' by this world of dancing form, beckoning us inward past our nuanced gateways of fear, and into the blissful joy of wholeness beyond seperation.

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Using mindful awareness and compassion, RamDev walks listeners through the pathways to emotional freedom.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks into:

• Using emotions to dive into deeper parts of ourselves
• Peeling through the layers of emotions
• Ways to be with our emotions
• Being with our sensations without getting lost in the story
• Love and the ability to forgive
• I am afraid versus I have fear
• Creating space between the emotion and the one who observes
• The superego (our inner judge, jury, and executioner)
• Embodied mindfulness and compassion
• Having compassion for our emotional demons
• Tantra and all emotions as awakened energy
• Turning obstacles into practice and presence
• The benefits of anxiety, anger, and sadness
• The 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.” – RamDev

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Poet and Author, John Fox, joins the show to talk about the healing power of poetry.

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Monica Abrahamsen returns to the Healing at the Edge Podcast for a discussion with Dale about the consequences of our taboos around death and suicide.

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Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.

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In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: 

• Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobriety
• How Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knew
• Seeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in Ojai
• Allowing oneself to be sad for awhile
• Conscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied way
• The raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful times
• How community and compassion helps us to heal
• Accepting reality for what it is
• How familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of life
• The difficulty in cutting through illusions
• The importance of regular practice

About 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 Beaudry

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Ram Dev gives a dharma talk about cultivating enough faith to face things as they are, and leads a meditation centered on the power of the grounding breath.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev explores the art of spiritual healing, which is all about resting in non-duality and connecting to wholeness.

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Defining the meaning of fully conscious dying, RamDev shares the practices that can help all of us meet death with acceptance and awareness.

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In this episode, RamDev elucidates:

• The stages of becoming fully conscious
• Approaching death as openly as possible
• How noticing our sensations around death can lead us to acceptance
• Softening our ability to be with difficult emotions
• Preparatory practices for the ultimate surrender
• The false-self and an over-reliance on our identity
• Guru Yoga, Forgiveness Practice, and The Dissolving into Space Meditation
• Being with the beloved and recognizing our oneness with all things
• Mantra practice as a technique to go beyond duality
• The importance of devotion and compassion
• Using Maharaj-ji and Christ as examples of being in love with God

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“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.” – RamDev

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In this special session for the Ram Dass Fellowship, Ram Dev talks about how the Covid-19 pandemic is uncovering so many opportunities for practice.

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Sandra Fish joins the show to talk about her work as an advocate for compassionate end of life care in prisons. 

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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.” – RamDev

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on:

• The motivations for our spiritual practice
• Looking at how suffering is caused by how we are relating to our environment
• Sitting with discomfort
• The different kinds of laziness
• Alleviating suffering for other beings
• The 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)

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Helping us past discursive thought and separation, Ram Dev lays the bridgework to the path of Embodied Love and Devotional Vipassana.

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Performer, magician, and spiritual inquirer, Chris Britt returns to tap Ram Dev's vast wisdom surrounding working with our shadow, and embodying the Beloved.

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In a discussion on fearlessness, Ram Dev offers insight into faith and awareness, meditation and letting go, and separation and oneness.

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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.

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On this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, we explore:

• Opening to the emptiness of emotions
• Being the lens that frames our experiences
• Turning towards the raw energy of our emotions, rather than resisting them
• The “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 Borglum

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Buddhist chaplain, Susan Shannon, joins the show to talk about cultivating compassion and mindfulness with death row inmates at San Quentin.

 

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Ram Dev and Christiane Wolf share a conversation about how pain does not cause suffering, how mindfulness can help us deal with chronic pain, and the connection between grief and pain.

Christiane Wolf, MD, Ph.D., is a physician turned mindfulness and compassion teacher and a senior teacher at InsightLA. She trains teachers and teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion to groups and individuals in the US and across Europe. Christiane is the author of Outsmart Your Pain: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind. Learn more about her at christianewolf.com.

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Ram Dev shares a timely look at the science behind stress, and how we can use a tantric approach to keep our hearts open amidst uncertain times.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev discusses dying. We learn how we can see death as a mirror and how to cope with the bittersweetness of life.

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Ram Dev explores how to move past delusion to work with strong emotions like anger through the all-encompassing lens of Tantra Yoga.

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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 Starr

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Offering wisdom at the spiritually potent merging point of boredom and nonduality, Ram Dev explores how we can become aware of subtle feelings to 'mind the gap' and rest in the wholeness of nature of mind.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev illuminates the deep connection and opportunity of awakening encased within the spiritual overlay of boredom and nonduality. Teaching us how to 'mind the gap,' trust our subtle emotions, and rest in the true nature of mind, Ram Dev invites us into the 'abyss of radical surrender' to remember who we are as consciousness, awareness, and love itself.

"Right now you're sitting in your body, your butt's on the chair, cushion, or sofa. What does that feel like? Can that be the portal to resting in nature of mind? Can we use boring sensation to take us directly to that place?" – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)

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Dale is joined by Chris Britt for a conversation around what inspiration is to them and how we can best transform our inspiration into an expression of our truest selves.

Chris Britt combines stories, humor, magic, mindfulness and embodiment techniques to help us navigate through these difficult times. He produced a documentary about the spiritual philosopher Alan Watts(“In the Way with Alan Watts”) and was a joke a screenwriter for Mort Sahl and Robin Williams. Chris has shared his work with community organizations and companies such as Google and Hitachi Ventara. You can learn more at chrisbritt.com.

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Dale Borglum shares a dharma talk around accepting the inevitability of pain and seeing that the suffering that comes with our pain is completely optional.

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Illuminating the path to resting in embodied nonduality, Ram Dev leads a guided meditation & shares on bhakti devotion, emptiness, mindfulness, non-grasping, Kali, surrender, & unconditional love.

Recognizing how disembodied so many of us have become in western culture through our relationship to media, the internet, electronics, and even all-too-heady spiritual practices; Ram Dev highlights a path to liberation and healing through engagement with our human body. Illustrating the steps to resting in nonduality through bhakti devotion, embodied mindfulness, and surrendering into the spacious heart, Ram Dev prepares us for the tantric realization of finding out who we really are. 

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In this talk, Dale shares a workable way that we can create the foundation for resting in our heart.

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Monica Abrahamsen joins Dale for a conversation around the practice of mantra, including the aspects that can be most difficult and transformative.  

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This week on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev expands on the subjects of grief, gratitude, and grace.

"Grace is not a thing, something we receive from God, but more the attitude and openness where we can trust emptiness in each moment. We can trust that there is presence in each moment." – Ram Dev

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Bringing the mind into the heart, Ram Dev elucidates how to let go of the ego and surrender into beingness.

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In this episode, RamDev teaches on:

• Living out concepts after we understand them
• Keeping our heart open through all of life’s mundane moments
• Separating from the chaos of the world and having an objective experience
• How a rigid attachment to the ego prevents progress in our practice
• The breath as an expression of pure wholeness
• Having enough trust to surrender into centeredness
• Dropping into the heart just as we would the breath
• Seeing God in everyone without the “I” judging everything
• The felt sense of pure awareness moment to moment
• Using 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.” – RamDev

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Dale Borglum offers a dharma talk on the interconnection between fear and faith, looking at how closely our depth of faith is tied to our experience of fear.

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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 Borglum

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Dale has a conversation with Dr. Jim Smith about his battle with cancer, how it changed his perspective as a physician, and cultivating compassion. Dr. Jim Smith is a surgeon whose personal journey and practice has changed the way he has come to practice. Dale and Jim discuss the role of compassion and the need for doctors to cultivate as much compassion for themselves as they do their patients. See 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

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Ram Dev shares a dharma talk on how we can ease our suffering by offering compassion to our fear.

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Exploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity.

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"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 Borglum

In this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:

• The inherent connection between heart and mind
• Loss, grief, embodied mindfulness, trust, and boundaries
• Devotion and the qualities of an open heart
• Suffering, resistance, presence, and healing
• Love, attachment, equanimity, and compassion
• Spiritual practices for opening the heart
• A guided meditation on opening the heartmind

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Describing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart.

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"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 suffering
• Absolute Goodness and our intrinsic nature
• Enlightenment and Vulnerability 
• Surrender in the various stages of practice

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In conversation with listeners, Ramdev explains how prayer unites us with God and prepares us to receive grace.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about: 

• Prayer as the foundation of every religion
• Having faith in the boundless qualities of God
• Loving God with passion
• Different levels of prayer
• How prayer unites us with God and prepares us for receiving grace
• Admitting our humanness within our prayers
• Listener perspectives on different styles of prayer
• Praying for help from our ancestors and for the healing of others
• Prayer as an invitation for God to enter the heart
• Healing 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.” – 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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Exploring how to keep an open heart in difficult times, Ram Dev shares a Tibetan Tonglen guided meditation for cultivating compassion for all suffering beings.

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Opening the podcast by sharing a list of short coronavirus memoirs written by people during the height of the pandemic, Ram Dev invites us to feel the poignancy of the suffering people are going through. Pointing to spiritual practice as a true anchor of wellbeing during difficult times, he speaks to the potency of global practices, like Tonglen and Loving Kindness, which compassionately encompass all sentient beings.

"You have to have a deep enough connection with self, with God, with practice, that you can realize that your heart is boundless and you can take in all that suffering." – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)

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This time on the Healing at the Edge podcast, Dale Borglum shares the maps of the heart laid out in the Buddhist Brahma Viharas and in the path of devotion.

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On this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, Dale gets to the heart of conscious living and how our relationship with death effects every moment that we are alive.

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Ram Dev talks about preparing for a conscious death and connecting to a sense of pure consciousness that runs deeper than everyday awareness, plus answers questions around the subject of dying. 

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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. 

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“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?” – RamDev

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Chris Britt returns to Healing at the Edge to ask Ram Dev about some of the remarkable teachers he has received wisdom from, including Suzuki Roshi, Anandamayi Ma, and the Dalai Lama.

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Dale Borglum shares a dharma talk around integrating spiritual practices into our everyday lives and overcoming obstacles that get in the way of living with an open heart.

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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 center
• The four Tibetan mind-turning truths
• How all fear can be tracked to a fear of death
• Ego and the importance of faith in life and death
• Spiritual bypassing and moving to a more centered place of being
• How the practices Ram Dass was given by Maharaj-ji helped him find his true self
• A story about letting go and a mushroom trip in India
• Why we don’t have to wait until we are dying to be honest
• The interface between living and dying
• The practice of Bhakti

“I find that light is your guru. Your guru meets you as you die.” – Ram Dass

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Chris Britt returns for part two of a conversation asking Ram Dev about some of the remarkable teachers he has received wisdom from–Kalu Rinpoche, S.N. Goenka, H.H. the 16th Karmapa, Trungpa Rinpoche–as well as elucidate the intricacies and practicalities of vipassana practice.

Chris Britt combines stories, humor, magic, mindfulness and embodiment techniques to help us navigate through these difficult times. He produced a documentary about the spiritual philosopher Alan Watts ("In the Way with Alan Watts") and was a joke and screenwriter for Mort Sahl and Robin Williams. Chris has shared his work with community organizations and companies such as Google and Hitachi Ventara. You can learn more at chrisbritt.com.

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Robert Thurman joins Dale live on stage to answer questions about karma, coping with death and shares practices for turning towards Dharma.

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Discussing why it is so difficult to open the heart, Ramdev provides practical lessons on how to rest in the heart-space more often.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev speaks about:

• Why it is so hard to open the heart
• The Buddhist Heart Sutra and the nature of the heart as empty
• The quality of non-self and vast openness
• The theoretical versus the practical
• How resting in the heart frees us from the abyss
• The way that emotions like fear and anger keep our heart closed
• Using mantra to drill into the heart
• Devotion and compassion as the key parts of an open heart
• Everything as a display of pure consciousness
• Receiving 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?” – RamDev

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Mukti Ma and RamDev trade stories of their synchronistic journeys to India, which led them both to sit at the feet of Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji) and Anandamayi Ma.

Welcoming Mukti Ma Habsburg to Healing at the Edge, Dale Borglum introduces her as a new member of the Board of Directors for his Living/Dying Project. What started as a business meeting turned into waxing poetically on Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji), Anandamayi Ma, and the good old days in India—so through that grace, this podcast was born!

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How open is your heart? Dale Borglum shares the qualities of a spacious heart to cultivate compassion.

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What is Conscious Dying? Dale explores how the dying process can be utilized as an opportunity for profound healing and spiritual awakening.

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Dale Borglum is joined by guest Mason Reid for a conversation about surrendering to the moment and living each day its fullest.

Mason Reid is a 22-year-old college student who received the diagnosis of cancer in his brain at the age of 10. In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale speaks with Mason about what it means to live each moment to its fullest.

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In this talk, given at the Symington Cancer Conference, Dale discusses conscious dying and working with suffering. Dale talks about the struggles of dying and methods of conscious dying that allow a person freedom from suffering. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring both acute and chronic grief, Ram Dev shares perspectives and practices for consciously bearing our grief and opening our hearts.

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Dale Borglum shares a dharma talk that explores some of the practices available for cultivating pure awareness in our daily lives.

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