Ram Dass joins RamDev for a moving conversation about their work with the dying and the importance of practice in the living/dying process that each of us will go through.

In this revamped episode, RamDev and Ram Dass connect on:

• The formation of the living dying center
• The four Tibetan mind-turning truths
• How all fear can be tracked to a fear of death
• Ego and the importance of faith in life and death
• Spiritual bypassing and moving to a more centered place of being
• How the practices Ram Dass was given by Maharaj-ji helped him find his true self
• A story about letting go and a mushroom trip in India
• Why we don’t have to wait until we are dying to be honest
• The interface between living and dying
• The practice of Bhakti

“I find that light is your guru. Your guru meets you as you die.” – Ram Dass

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Using mindful awareness and compassion, RamDev walks listeners through the pathways to emotional freedom.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks into:

• Using emotions to dive into deeper parts of ourselves
• Peeling through the layers of emotions
• Ways to be with our emotions
• Being with our sensations without getting lost in the story
• Love and the ability to forgive
• I am afraid versus I have fear
• Creating space between the emotion and the one who observes
• The superego (our inner judge, jury, and executioner)
• Embodied mindfulness and compassion
• Having compassion for our emotional demons
• Tantra and all emotions as awakened energy
• Turning obstacles into practice and presence
• The benefits of anxiety, anger, and sadness
• The sacred nature of all experiences

“With attention, with being centered, we move from being reactive to a place where we can be with an emotion without either automatically pushing it away or automatically getting lost in that.” – RamDev

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Concentrating on devotion, RamDev describes healing feelings of inadequacy and holding a deep compassion for the self and others.

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about:

- Devotion as the easiest way to open the heart

- Self-worth and offering Compassion to ourselves

- Trusting that everything is the Dharma unfolding

- Becoming attached to God and Surrendering the false self

- Intimacy with our teachings and guru via devotion

- The relative deity versus the absolute deity

- An evolution into Tantric devotion

- Receiving grace in every moment

- The four heavenly abodes in Buddhism and their enemies

- Our tendency to be bothered and taking responsibility

- A brief self-compassion and mindfulness practice

- Imperfection as a part of the shared human experience

- A quick Q and A with listeners on keeping an open heart and more

“The far enemy of love is hatred, but the near enemy of love is attachment. It looks like love, it smells like love, but it causes suffering. Very often our love, which we can extend here to our devotion, is a mixture of true love and attachment.” – RamDev

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Defining the meaning of fully conscious dying, RamDev shares the practices that can help all of us meet death with acceptance and awareness.

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In this episode, RamDev elucidates:

• The stages of becoming fully conscious
• Approaching death as openly as possible
• How noticing our sensations around death can lead us to acceptance
• Softening our ability to be with difficult emotions
• Preparatory practices for the ultimate surrender
• The false-self and an over-reliance on our identity
• Guru Yoga, Forgiveness Practice, and The Dissolving into Space Meditation
• Being with the beloved and recognizing our oneness with all things
• Mantra practice as a technique to go beyond duality
• The importance of devotion and compassion
• Using Maharaj-ji and Christ as examples of being in love with God

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“What we’re exploring here is the possibility of tuning the string on the instrument of your life so that it is resonating in a beautiful way; noticing when it’s too tight, noticing when it’s too loose, coming back again and again to this balance of surrender from the heart.” – RamDev

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Analyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:

• The fundamental misperception of who we are
• Reality versus delusion
• Form, solidness, and sense of self
• Directly experiencing emptiness
• Anxiety produced from separateness
• Appreciating the dream-like nature of things
• Readings from The Heart Sutra
• Letting go of the urge to control our lives
• The simplicity and complexity of surrendering / trusting God
• Different types of anxiety
• Emptiness versus nothingness

“Anxiety is telling us that we’re lost in the fundamental delusion of solidness and separateness, that we don’t really get the Buddhist notion of emptiness. A direct experience of emptiness, and then being able to stabilize emptiness, can be a way of working with anxiety.” – RamDev

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How can we bring awareness and compassion to our emotions? This week, RamDev looks at how we can grow by forming a close relationship with our emotions.

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On this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, we explore:

• Opening to the emptiness of emotions
• Being the lens that frames our experiences
• Turning towards the raw energy of our emotions, rather than resisting them
• The “egg-laying” breathing method 
• Building the foundation for an open heart through grounding and centering

“We liberate our emotions by seeing their empty nature.” – RamDev Dale Borglum

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption.

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Reflecting on the increase in collective fear that comes with moving into uncertain times, RamDev explores:

- The qualities we can cultivate in response to the disruption caused by artificial intelligence

- Our interconnected nature and how doing the inner work benefits all beings

- The potential benefits and dangers of AI

- The balance of wisdom and compassion

- Discerning uncertainty from anxiety and working with those emotions

- Dharma talks scripted by Chat GPT

“By you working with your uncertainty, you’re realizing that so many people are feeling the same poisonous emotion. By you having compassion for that, you’re helping other beings because of our interconnected nature. You’re doing this for all beings.” - RamDev (Dale Borglum)

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives.

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In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on:

• The motivations for our spiritual practice
• Looking at how suffering is caused by how we are relating to our environment
• Sitting with discomfort
• The different kinds of laziness
• Alleviating suffering for other beings
• The path of working with Kali
• Remembering our connectedness to God

“Right effort is the effort to surrender. It’s not the effort to change, or fix, or do anything. It’s the effort to keep remembering that our true nature is already whole.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)

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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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