Sinopsis
Dale Borglum (Ram Dev) 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 Meditators Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives 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. Dales passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free. Learn more about Ram Devs work via the Living/Dying Project
Episodios
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Ep. 105 – Finding Light Through Loss with Wendy Stern
11/01/2024 Duración: 44minSharing her personal story with loss, yoga therapist Wendy Stern joins RamDev to talk about somatic grieving through yoga and mindfulness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this moving episode, RamDev and Wendy Stern converse about:Wendy’s journey with yoga therapyHow the loss of her first born child, Noah, propelled Wendy into working with griefTurning to yoga as a sanctuary for exploring difficult emotionsHow visiting Bali and Thailand showed Wendy that death is just a part of lifeThe way that grief can open our heartsA new appreciation for life after lossWhat blocks westerners from enlightenmentThe split between the intellectual body and the emotional bodyThe tantric 3-step and mindful breathing curriculumThe profound changes that come from grieving in communityEvolving our cultural understanding of griefAccepting and acknowledging griefHow retreats can accelerate healingYoga po
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Ep. 104 – Living & Dying with Ram Dass
22/12/2023 Duración: 50minRam 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 centerThe four Tibetan mind-turning truthsHow all fear can be tracked to a fear of deathEgo and the importance of faith in life and deathSpiritual bypassing and moving to a more centered place of beingHow the practices Ram Dass was given by Maharaj-ji helped him find his true selfA story about letting go and a mushroom trip in IndiaWhy we don’t have to wait until we are dying to be honestThe interface between living and dyingThe practice of Bhakti“I find that light is your guru. Your guru meets you as you die.” – Ram Dass See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 103 – Emotional Freedom
30/11/2023 Duración: 53minUsing mindful awareness and compassion, RamDev walks listeners through the pathways to emotional freedom.Check out Ram Dev’s new online course, A Practical Guide to Freedom: The Stages of Awakening, where you will come away with the wisdom and practices to integrate and embody the stages of the spiritual path so you can begin to surrender into the boundless nature of the heart.This time on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks into:Using emotions to dive into deeper parts of ourselvesPeeling through the layers of emotionsWays to be with our emotionsBeing with our sensations without getting lost in the storyLove and the ability to forgiveI am afraid versus I have fearCreating space between the emotion and the one who observesThe superego (our inner judge, jury, and executioner)Embodied mindfulness and compassionHaving compassion for our emotional demonsTantra and all emotions as awakened energyTurning obstacles into practice and presenceThe benefits of anxiety, anger, and sadnessThe sacred nature o
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Ep. 102 – The Relationship Between Devotion, Self Compassion and Compassion for Others
02/11/2023 Duración: 45minConcentrating 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 he
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Ep. 101 – Fully Conscious Dying
04/10/2023 Duración: 43minDefining the meaning of fully conscious dying, RamDev shares the practices that can help all of us meet death with acceptance and awareness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode, RamDev elucidates:The stages of becoming fully consciousApproaching death as openly as possibleHow noticing our sensations around death can lead us to acceptanceSoftening our ability to be with difficult emotionsPreparatory practices for the ultimate surrenderThe false-self and an over-reliance on our identityGuru Yoga, Forgiveness Practice, and The Dissolving into Space MeditationBeing with the beloved and recognizing our oneness with all thingsMantra practice as a technique to go beyond dualityThe importance of devotion and compassionUsing Maharaj-ji and Christ as examples of being in love with GodRamDev and The Living/Dying Project are beyond thrilled to have Jon “Vasu” Seskevich present
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Ep. 100 – Anxiety and Emptiness
13/09/2023 Duración: 01h03minAnalyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:The fundamental misperception of who we areReality versus delusionForm, solidness, and sense of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessAnxiety produced from separatenessAppreciating the dream-like nature of thingsReadings from The Heart SutraLetting go of the urge to control our livesThe simplicity and complexity of surrendering / trusting GodDifferent types of anxietyEmptiness 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.” – RamDevSee Pri
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Ep. 99 – Transmuting Emotions into Presence
24/08/2023 Duración: 50minHow 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.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowOn this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, we explore:Opening to the emptiness of emotionsBeing the lens that frames our experiencesTurning towards the raw energy of our emotions, rather than resisting themThe “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 BorglumSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 98 – The Spiritual Imperative of Artificial Intelligence
02/08/2023 Duración: 41minIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowReflecting 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 Bo
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Ep. 97 – Right Effort and Surrender
12/07/2023 Duración: 46minIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on:The motivations for our spiritual practiceLooking at how suffering is caused by how we are relating to our environmentSitting with discomfortThe different kinds of lazinessAlleviating suffering for other beingsThe 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)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 96 – Surrender into Wholeness
14/06/2023 Duración: 52minFresh from a trip to Guatemala, RamDev guides us on letting go of separateness and surrendering into wholeness.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“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 onenessSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-
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Ep. 95 – The Journey of Awakening
18/05/2023 Duración: 47minExploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“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 wholenessGrounding 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 grandiosityBeing with feelings exactly as they are in the body, mind, and heartSeveral practices for playing with non-dualitySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 94 – The Guru: Devotion to Truth
25/04/2023 Duración: 48minFocusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The formlessness of the GuruThe Guru within the self and othersMaharaj-jiNon-dualistic self-realizationDevotion to truth and awarenessFinding 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 93 – Receiving Love
22/03/2023 Duración: 51minDescribing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"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 sufferingAbsolute Goodness and our intrinsic natureEnlightenment and Vulnerability Surrender in the various stages of practiceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 92 – The Tantra of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment
22/02/2023 Duración: 50minRamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"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 BorglumIn 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 awakenThe connection within Tantra between love, emptiness, self, devotion, and compassionMaharajji's statement that "the best form to worship God is every from" and how everything is graceTantra, the Divine Mother,
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Ep. 91 – Opening the Heartmind
27/01/2023 Duración: 01h01minExploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"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 BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The inherent connection between heart and mindLoss, grief, embodied mindfulness, trust, and boundariesDevotion and the qualities of an open heartSuffering, resistance, presence, and healingLove, attachment, equanimity, and compassionSpiritual practices for opening the heartA guided meditation on opening the heartmindSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 90 – Who Meditates?
03/01/2023 Duración: 41minSoften 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. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, John Lockley, Ram Dev, Trudy Goodman, Lama Tsultrim Allione—FREE January 16 to 25. Sit in true peace, love, and tranquility. Join thousands of people around the world for this collective meditation experience: onecommune.com/ramdass “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?” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 89 – Luminous Darkness: An Interview with Deborah Eden Tull
10/12/2022 Duración: 48minEnter 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 tow
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Ep. 88 – Tantra: Loving Something So Much You Love the Whole World
18/11/2022 Duración: 01h05minClosing 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.” – RamDevThis podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 87 - The Transformational Power of Grief w/ Mirabai Starr
30/10/2022 Duración: 44minMirabai 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 StarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 86 – The Path of Devotion
12/10/2022 Duración: 48minRamDev explores the four different stages on the path of devotion – the invocation stage, the loving-kindness stage, the Tantric stage, and the nondual stage. “My feeling is that eventually, devotion becomes addictive; devotion to awareness, having that open-hearted feeling becomes addictive. That you become crazy for anything but that.” – RamDevFind out more about RamDev’s work at the Living/Dying Project: livingdying.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.