Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum

Exploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“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 wholenessGrounding 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 grandiosityBeing with feelings exactly as they are in the body, mind, and heartSeveral practices for playing with non-dualitySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Focusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The formlessness of the GuruThe Guru within the self and othersMaharaj-jiNon-dualistic self-realizationDevotion to truth and awarenessFinding 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Describing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"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 sufferingAbsolute Goodness and our intrinsic natureEnlightenment and Vulnerability Surrender in the various stages of practiceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"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 BorglumIn 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 awakenThe connection within Tantra between love, emptiness, self, devotion, and compassionMaharajji's statement that "the best form to worship God is every from" and how everything is graceTantra, the Divine Mother, and devouring and digesting emotionsYoga versus TantraEmbodied mindfulness for transmuting emotion into the sacredGuru Yoga and identifying oneself with God/Deity and mantraSurrendering into love through non-graspingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"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 BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The inherent connection between heart and mindLoss, grief, embodied mindfulness, trust, and boundariesDevotion and the qualities of an open heartSuffering, resistance, presence, and healingLove, attachment, equanimity, and compassionSpiritual practices for opening the heartA guided meditation on opening the heartmindSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, John Lockley, Ram Dev, Trudy Goodman, Lama Tsultrim Allione—FREE January 16 to 25. Sit in true peace, love, and tranquility. Join thousands of people around the world for this collective meditation experience: onecommune.com/ramdass “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?” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 TullSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.” – RamDevThis podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this engaging discussion, Mirabai Starr, an award-winning author and grief counselor, shares her insights on how grief can be a powerful catalyst for personal transformation. She emphasizes the emotional depth of grief and its essential role in fostering connections. Mirabai explores the intertwining of grief and spirituality, suggesting that embracing sorrow can lead to grace and deeper self-awareness. The conversation also touches on non-dual wisdom from Tibetan Buddhism and the importance of nurturing positive relationships.

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.” – RamDevFind out more about RamDev’s work at the Living/Dying Project: livingdying.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.