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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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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