Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum

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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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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