Dale Borglum (Ram Dev) founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to ...
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.
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Ep. 120 – Divine Incarnation: The Birth of the Light
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.
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Ep. 119 – Preparing for Change
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.
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Ep. 118 – Relationships of All Sorts
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.
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Ep. 117 – Maharaj-ji's Teaching
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.
Dale Borglum (Ram Dev) 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. Dale lectures and gives 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. Dale’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free. Learn more about Ram Dev’s work via the Living/Dying Project
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