Explaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev guides listeners through: 

• His favorite part of the Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 12)
• Service as the easiest path to awakening
• Hanuman as the aspect of the deity that expresses devotion through selfless service
• Naturally arising compassion and seeing God / the guru in all people
• How suffering comes from having inappropriate boundaries
• Approaching service as an expression of love and joy
• Pity as the near enemy of compassion
• Building communities that support service
• Being of service through full presence and connection
• The many levels of healing and how to support others remotely
• Learning compassion through simple moments of meditation

“Service takes on a different tone, a different feeling quality in our beings, if instead of doing it out of guilt or I need to stay busy or I’m trying to help people, it’s an act of love. It’s your relationship with the beloved, that the homeless person, your partner, even your self, is a manifestation of that which is love. Then, service is transformed. It’s an act of joy, not a responsibility.” – RamDev

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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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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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This week on Healing at the Edge, Dale explores the path to wholeness we must follow if we intend to die consciously.

 

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On this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, Dale explores caregiving as a spiritual practice and looks at what near death experiences have to teach us about death. 

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

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

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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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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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On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale speaks with author, Joe DiNardo, about confronting death and the role of practice in the process of grieving.

 

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Dale visits one of his oldest friends, and very special guest, Ram Dass to talk about lessons learned from their time in India with Neem Karoli Baba and ways we all can integrate the living/dying process. Ram Dass joins Dale for a moving conversation about their work with the dying and the importance of practice in the living/dying process that we all go through. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.

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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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.

Dale discusses healing the heart and staying on the path to God. On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Dale talks about staying motivated in our practice, how we deal with suffering, and healing the heart with compassion. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, 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 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.

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 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.

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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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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Analyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:

• The fundamental misperception of who we are
• Reality versus delusion
• Form, solidness, and sense of self
• Directly experiencing emptiness
• Anxiety produced from separateness
• Appreciating the dream-like nature of things
• Readings from The Heart Sutra
• Letting go of the urge to control our lives
• The simplicity and complexity of surrendering / trusting God
• Different types of anxiety
• Emptiness versus nothingness

“Anxiety is telling us that we’re lost in the fundamental delusion of solidness and separateness, that we don’t really get the Buddhist notion of emptiness. A direct experience of emptiness, and then being able to stabilize emptiness, can be a way of working with anxiety.” – RamDev

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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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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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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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Fresh from a trip to Guatemala, RamDev guides us on letting go of separateness and surrendering into wholeness.

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“Right now we can begin to rest in the wisdom that we are not the body and the personality. To the extent that we really get that, our true nature becomes revealed.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)

Back from his Guatemalan adventure, RamDev returns to answer questions and discuss:

• Near-death experiences and how he answers the question, “What happens when you die?”
• Non-duality from the lens of Sri Nisargadatta
• Trusting the spaciousness of the open, compassionate heart 
• The friction between grasping and surrendering
• Compassion as the stepping stone to non-duality and the nature of the open heart-mind
• Aloneness bringing us closer to oneness

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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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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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Focusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone.

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In this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:

• The formlessness of the Guru
• The Guru within the self and others
• Maharaj-ji
• Non-dualistic self-realization
• Devotion to truth and awareness
• Finding the Guru in all aspects of reality

"When we're talking about God or guru or self, it's such a small unimposing word compared to what the self is, compared to what the guru is. God is a nickname for reality. God is a nickname for everything." – RamDev Dale Borglum 

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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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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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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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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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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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Closing the gap between ourselves and God, RamDev shows us the tantra of loving one thing so much that we can not help but love it all.

“Our true nature, the nature of everybody, and the true nature of everything is what we were invoking in the first place. Everything is the play of pure consciousness.” – RamDev

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This week on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev teaches us about receiving grace and accepting the blessing of our boundless nature. 

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“We are infinitely larger than the good or bad stories we tell ourselves about ourselves or about each other. Grace reveals our boundless nature.” – Ram Dev

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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.

Explore the intersection of Buddhism & Bhakti at the inaugural Love Serve Remember Summer Mountain Retreat August 25th - 29th in Boone, NC!

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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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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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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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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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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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