Ep. 582 – Meeting Suffering with an Open Heart with RamDev

Ramdev joins Raghu to talk about deepening our compassion through devotion and a willingness to meet suffering with an open heart.

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This time on Mindrolling, RamDev and Raghu discuss:

• Coping within the current climate of our country
• Considering if it must get worse before it gets better
• Concerns with ICE and deportation
• Seeing suffering in the context of wholeness
• The problem with over-identification with negative emotions
• Requesting our needs and desires from Maharaj-ji
• A devotee's story from the book By His Grace
• Using our grief and longing as a spiritual path
• The loss that is going on worldwide
• Perspectives on depression and spirituality within the book The Awakened Brain
• Meeting suffering with a wide open heart

Book recommendation from this episode: Tantric Quest by Daniel Odier

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About RamDev:

Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of The Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United States, The Dying Center. He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge, the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis. Learn more about The Living/Dying Project at livingdying.org.

Be sure to also check out RamDev’s podcast, Healing at the Edge, on the Be Here Now Network.

“Compassion is the open heart meeting suffering. Tibetans say this remarkable thing, that compassion is the mixture of sadness and joy. You’re sad because you’re touching human suffering, but there’s a joyfulness that transcends happiness and sadness because your heart is open.” – RamDev

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