RamDev takes listeners through the three faces of the heart, each of which serves a different, necessary purpose and combines into nondual awareness. 

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev chats about:

• What Maharaj-ji said about being in the heart
• How the heart center stabilizes presence 
• Starting practice as human, and standing up as divine
• The left, relational heart: feeling, devotion, intimacy, grief, longing
• The right side of the heart and the arising of witness consciousness 
• Nondualism and combining wisdom with warmth 
• The greatest medicine for the fear of death 

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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 co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“If we only live in the left side of the heart, devotion can become too emotional. The feeling becomes the practice instead of the doorway to deeper qualities of the heart. Grief, if we are only in the left side of the heart, can loop, can continue without metabolizing. The heart can stay open, but it’s not grounded. The practitioner gets blown away by the emotions of daily life.” –RamDev 

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Through faith, meditation, and surrender to the divine, RamDev explores the art of resting in presence—embracing all of life, light and dark alike.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev chats about:

• Recognizing that presence is always there, whether the mind is calm or not
• How having faith in presence will actually quiet the mind
• A short guided meditation
• Seeing God in everything rather than trying to figure everything out
• Taking inspiration from Rumi and resting in the heart-cave
• Finding the space to be with what we feel, rather than wondering why we are feeling it 
• Giving up our identity and story and being in presence itself 
• Searching for an embodied sense of self which unites with The One
• Accepting both the dark and the light
• The poem Lovedogs by Rumi
• Living without resistance to the divine unfolding of reality 

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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 co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“We in the West tend to think of presence or God as something positive, pleasant, and enjoyable, and yet, it’s all presence. There is nothing that isn’t.” –RamDev

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Teaching listeners how to get out of the mind and trust in the heart, RamDev guides us through embodied faith practices.

“Faith is not certainty, it’s steadiness inside uncertainty.” –RamDev 

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• Having faith within our hearts rather than only our minds
• Using sensation as a gateway into experiencing presence 
• How talking about something trivial can allow us to enter the heart space 
• The moving, changing nature of the mind 
• Softening into the body and releasing tension
• Maintaining steadiness in the midst of uncertainty 
• Trusting in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha 
• Noticing the subtle changes in the fields of our 5 senses
• Wisely and compassionately responding to the next moment 
• Guru Yoga: Installing the deity into your body

“To trust in the heart has a lot to do with trusting being in the body. It’s very difficult to be thinking and be with your sensations at the same time. The heart is a felt experience.” –RamDev 

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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 co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Explaining how collective grief may manifest as anger, RamDev teaches listeners how they can transform negative emotions into compassionate action. 

"It’s imperative to feel permission to feel your own grief, to not feel you have to get over it." –RamDev 

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• The universal experience of grief 
• The weight of broken promises in America
• How grief was handled more collectively in traditional societies 
• The diluting force of anger and moments of tunnel vision
• When anger can actually be a productive response to grief
• What the Buddha said regarding anger 
• Learning to be with grief without bypassing, suppressing, or drowning in it
• Resting in sky-like boundlessness, watching emotions pass like the weather

"The energy of anger as a grief response can be a productive response if we can begin to work with the emotion. What does it feel like? How can I transmute the feeling of anger into compassionate action? There is a lot of very powerful, strong juice behind the anger. It can be harnessed. It can be used to protest, to create change.” –RamDev 

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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 co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok

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Navigating boundaries through self-honesty and staying grounded, Ramdev teaches listeners how to say no with an open heart.

“It's pretty easy to say no with a closed heart. It's pretty easy to say yes with an open heart. But, can you say no with an open heart?"  –RamDev 

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• The seven chakras throughout our development 
• Feeling worthy of receiving the profound blessings in each moment
• The psychological perspective of boundaries: saying no lovingly
• Getting into the energetic body of boundaries
• The necessity of being centered & grounded in order to set boundaries
• Opening to God and others without being overwhelmed
• Leaving behind fear, guilt, and shame in order to accept love and keep the heart open
• Practicing self-honesty and mindfulness so that we can set strong boundaries

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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 co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“Would it be possible to have good, strong, appropriate boundaries if you were not centered in the first place? Would it be possible to have some ongoing loving relationship with yourself, with God, with another human being, if you were not centered?” –RamDev

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Cultivating spiritual intimacy, presence, and love beyond emotion, RamDev explores stabilizing the heart by deeply rooting love into the second chakra. 

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers insights on:

• Rooting love into our lower belly versus the heart 
• Sensing a deeper kind of lasting, foundational love within our second chakra
• Love, which is more faithful and devotion-based rather than emotion-based
• Concerning oneself with being loved rather than feeling love 
• How can we love our neighbor and worship God in every form?
• Working with pain through spirituality 
• Repeating mantras from the belly 
• Coming into intimate contact with death

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

"One of the most reliable ways to stabilize love is to seed it, to feel it down in the lower belly, the pelvis, the second chakra. This is not a withdrawal from the heart, but a rooting of love into embodiment, gravity.” –RamDev 

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RamDev reflects on the simultaneous depth and simplicity of mantra, highlighting his own transcendent experiences across devotional practices.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:

• Receiving miracles from Hanuman and the sense that all things are already taken care of
• The power and depth of mantra practice, despite its simplicity
• Shifting from mechanical repetition to embodied feeling and heartfelt presence within the mantra
• Allowing mantra practice to soften, open, and color the heart with devotion
• Conventional devotional practice and making a bridge to God
• Entering tantric devotion as a path of unity—becoming one with the deity rather than worshipping from afar
• Becoming the essence of the mantra and awakening the divine energy in our bodies
• Drawing comparisons between tantric devotion and the Buddhist Heart Sutra
• Realizing that it is all one as we transcend through layers of devotion

“You are the essence of the mantra. The mantra is not a tool, a pointer, a technique; it's the full manifestation of the divine. It’s awakening divine energy into your body with each repetition.” –RamDev 

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Exploring embodiment and self-realization, RamDev takes listeners on a journey through the four paths of yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and Raja Yoga.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Karma Yoga, holding both success and failure equally—offering everything to God
• Bhakti Yoga and dissolving the ego through devotion 
• The obstacles of Bhakti: getting lost in emotions and secularism
• Jñāna Yoga, the path of philosophical and contemplative minds
• The importance of allowing clarity and knowledge to serve compassion
• Raja Yoga, the path of meditation and discipline
• Looking at crises as motivation for doing more practice
• Blending yogic paths for the synthesis of head, heart, and mind 
• The benefit of sticking to one path for a deeper experience
• Becoming embodied in order to heal addiction and trauma 
• How crucial it is to go beyond conceptual reality 

“Modern practitioners often blend these paths. Bhakti softens Jñāna’s austerity, Karma Yoga grounds devotion and service, Raja Yoga provides stability and focus. The synthesis of head, heart, and mind is the integral yoga of our age.” –RamDev 

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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RamDev shares how to make every moment a living prayer, carrying the essence of mantra and devotion into both the sacred and the mundane. 

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• RamDev’s personal struggles with integrating practice into his daily life
• Bringing heartfulness into mundane activities as a form of ceaseless prayer/practice
• Practicing out of richness, abundance, and adequacy, rather than out of need, separation, and inadequacy 
• Making connectedness ongoing and constant, rather than something we struggle to find
• The compelling story of Raghu Markus and an answered prayer from Maharaj-ji
• Prayers of adoration, rejoicing, and gratitude 
• Receiving direction and guidance through our prayers
• ‘Good pain’, aka, the pain of being released and of tension going away
• Trusting in the divine and surrendering in each moment 

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“Every moment is open to one of these kinds of prayer. How much can we trust integrating a prayerful attitude, heartfelt surrender to the divine into each moment, whether it’s a moment of gratitude, grief, intercession, thanksgiving, so many different possibilities.” –RamDev 

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Through teachings on non-duality and the illusion of separateness, RamDev explains how true healing comes from recognizing our inherent wholeness.

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In this episode, RamDev gives a thoughtful talk on:

• Resting in wholeness and non-duality in order to heal all parts of ourselves
• Seeing through the illusion of separateness instead of labeling ourselves or others as “broken”
• Understanding the ego and the ‘I’ that suffers, and learning to release fixation on identity
• Insights from Maharaj-ji and other gurus on awakening beyond duality
• Opening the heart of compassion and experiencing its boundless, healing presence
• The tantric revelation that all experiences are sacred, even the painful or uncomfortable ones
• How wholeness becomes contagious, reflecting others’ true nature and innate completeness
• Rediscovering the awareness that is already present within us
• Trusting in our true nature, and allowing suffering to transform rather than resisting it

“Until we realize that we’re already whole, we have healing work to do. Healing body, healing mind, healing spirit. We’re really not talking about healing illnesses. We are freeing capacities that have been limited and constricted in the past. The deepest healing. Healing everything.” –RamDev 

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