Offering listeners a map to the heart, Ramdev explores how loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity interconnect.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on: 

• The four qualities that lead to the heart (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity)
• Finding meaning through connection to self, others, and God
• The path of the heart versus the path of inquiry
• Dying into the heart rather than attempting to find everything out
• How on-going, unprocessed grief makes it difficult to open the heart
• Trusting both the light and the pain
• Equanimity as the foundation of the heart
• Having devotion to awareness and the sangha
• The many available paths to consciousness
• Invoking that which we feel devotion to during our meditations
• Integrating practice into daily life

“In the Bible, it talks about ‘pray without ceasing’, and the only way you can do that is if your practice goes so deep into yourself that it’s happening without you doing it because other times you’re doing other things. The quality of the prayer saturates the cloth of your being, you’re colored by the prayer.” – RamDev

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Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.

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In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: 

• Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobriety
• How Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knew
• Seeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in Ojai
• Allowing oneself to be sad for awhile
• Conscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied way
• The raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful times
• How community and compassion helps us to heal
• Accepting reality for what it is
• How familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of life
• The difficulty in cutting through illusions
• The importance of regular practice

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“Life is hard. You’re not getting out of this one alive. You’re going to grieve, you’re going to lose, that’s the nature of reality. But, that doesn’t mean we have to harden to it. That doesn’t mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris Beaudry

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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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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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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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Examining the concept of faith, Ramdev talks about awakened fearlessness and surrendering during moments of fear.

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In this episode, RamDev lectures on:

• How saints seem to have no fear
• The principal of Sub Ek (all one)
• Being fearless through seeing God everywhere
• Ramdev’s own experience with terror and surrendering
• Death and being forced to look at what you have faith in
• How we work with fear
• Resting in the ‘I am’ rather than the content of things
• Recognizing everything as the mother
• Fear as the demon of the root chakra
• How fear develops when we are infants
• Anxiety surrounding emptiness

“Fear is the demon of the root chakra. Fear is what is learned halfway through gestation to 2 years old when one doesn’t feel safe. Fear comes before anger, fear comes before sadness.” – RamDev

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RamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on:

• Dealing with the subtle grief of being in the body
• The illusion of self
• Directly experiencing emptiness
• Relaxing into perfection and the boundless nature of the heart
• Tantra and seeing the beloved in everything
• Finding opportunities in neutral moments
• The Tantric 3-step and nakedly contacting anger and difficult emotions
• Repression and creating space for what must be released
• A guided meditation

“We’re going from this grief because we’re feeling separate to compassion for this grief. This compassion reveals the empty nature of the heart, and then this Tantric understanding begins to awaken. Maybe that sounds like a lot of words, but it’s a very somatic, immediate, intimate process that can be experienced right now.” – RamDev

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RamDev offers wisdom on receiving the body as an energetic entity we can utilize to enter into non-dual awareness.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers some wisdom on:

• The challenge of making our life a practice
• Experiencing this in the body for full presence
• Embodiment perceived as emptiness
• How unresolved trauma can get locked in the body
• Relaxation as a way to surrender
• Regular stress versus mindful stress
• Samskaras and psychological imprints on the body
• A somatic angle to the tantric-three-step
• The inherent wakefulness within the body
• Receiving the body as an energetic entity
• Ways that we can be in a flow state with our body
• A guided practice to enter into beingness

“Resting in the body is difficult because unresolved trauma is locked in the body. There are sensations in the body, painful sensations. Relaxation is really an act of faith. Relaxation is about trust and surrender and trust and surrender are difficult as long as there’s trauma there.” – RamDev

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Whether it is Christ, a guru, a loved one, or neighbor, RamDev helps us find the object of our devotion in each passing moment.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:

• The inner and outer guru
• Letting go of identification with suffering
• Seeing the forest versus getting lost in the trees
• The grace within devotion
• How our psychological integration determines what level of intimacy we will have with God
• Inhabiting the body and opening the heart
• Worshiping God in every form
• Conscious grieving and deepening devotion
• Spaciousness and non-grasping as an antidote to fear

“The guru isn’t just something outside that we’re in relationship with. Its everything, it’s the whole universe. And, it’s the practitioner. It’s you, it’s me. It’s not something that’s only there when we’re feeling holy and sacred. Suppose you’re saying a mantra, you’re saying ram ram ram. From the standpoint of tantra, each time you say ram, it is ram. Each time you look in the mirror, it is ram. Each time you look at your partner or your child or your neighbor, it is ram. It is the mother.” – RamDev

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