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. 125 – We're Created Not For Pleasure, But For Joy
18/06/2025 Duración: 53minRamdev invites us into a space of lasting joy and peace, revealing ways we can better relate to both personal and collective suffering.Today’s podcast is also brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:Considering how the world is changing and how to respond to those changesLearning to love what is mortal and to be touched by the tragedy of being aliveDiscovering a deeper joy beyond pleasure and pain—even in the face of war, genocide, and global crisesDiscovering a deeper joy beyond pleasure and pain—even in the face of war, genocide, and global crisesCultivating unshakable inner peace and emotional resilience in turbulent timesAllowing ourselves to be moved by collective suffering rather than shutting down or turning awayTransforming grief into compassion through a sense of deep interconnectednessUnderstanding the key difference between pity and true compassionTraining
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Ep. 124 – Capacity of Wonder
22/05/2025 Duración: 01h03minFraming tantra as the capacity of wonder, RamDev shares how difficult emotions can be a portal for non-dual awareness, surrender, and bliss. This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses :Working with strong emotions and using them as fuel for awakening The difference between spiritual bypassing vs. heart-centered action to transmute negative experiencesApplying a tantric perspective to transform emotions in real-timeExperiencing the present moment’s enlightened nature and recognizing divinity in all thingsBuilding a relationship with content via embodied mindfulness Stabilizing the mind, opening the heart, and loving whatever is going on Faith-based devotion and a sense of separation from divinity versus tantric devotion and a oneness with GodIdentification with the divine rather than only worship and how it leads to sacred union and transformation The heart as a bridge between spiritual realms and physical realityCultivating awe, wonder, and a deep appreciation for the divine n
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Ep. 123 – Poison Into Medicine
30/04/2025 Duración: 45minRamDev shares a tantric approach to transforming difficult emotions into spiritual wisdom by turning emotional poison into medicine. This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on :Learning to transform difficult emotions into wisdom through spiritual practiceRealizing that samsara and nirvana are one through the lens of tantric philosophyExploring the ‘disappointment’ of enlightenment and the persistence of human sufferingCultivating deep intimacy with every part of life and all lived experiencesPracticing emotional grounding and staying present with all feelingsLinking quantum mechanics and consciousness with emotional and spiritual expansionUnderstanding the difference between traditional and tantric devotionRecognizing emotions as gateways to non-dual awareness and higher consciousnessUsing devotional practices to open and stabilize the heart in the face of sufferingLiving consciously to prepare for a more peaceful and intentional death Reflecting on political chaos as a possible catal
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Ep. 122 – Spiritual Guidance for Self and Others
03/04/2025 Duración: 39minRamDev shares tokens of personal wisdom and encourages listeners to evaluate their practice in order to guide themselves and others on the spiritual path.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers wisdom on:Evaluating our practice and giving ourselves advice Helping others on the spiritual path The foundational work of dealing with fear, guilt, and shame Underestimating how attached we are to pleasant mindstates Right effort and sitting with our suffering rather than running awayDoing all things from the mindstate of guru seva versus egoConsidering what we have faith in and if we need heart work or mindfulness workLooking at how constant our practice is and how we can bring practice into daily activity Bare attention and mantra as a resource for continuous mindfulness Being centered as the perfect balance between st
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Ep. 121 – Grief, Faith and Devotion
05/03/2025 Duración: 43minConnecting grief, faith, and devotion, RamDev describes the spiritual price we pay when we ignore the fundamental grief we all experience.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev explains to listeners:The many forms that grief can come inGrief in our daily lives and feeling subtly separate from God and othersHow deep grief can shatter our faithFaith as an integral motivator for our practiceThe cyclical, positive relationship between faith and devotionHaving an intimate, faith-based relationship with griefOur addiction to grief and becoming lost in our painHow we can consciously work with griefOpening to our own grief in order to be fully compassionate to othersTrusting that we can become vulnerable and awaken to our own true natureNoticing sensations of grief and compassion for grief in our bodiesHaving appropriate boundaries when working with collective grief“Unreso
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Ep. 120 – Divine Incarnation: The Birth of the Light
06/02/2025 Duración: 01h02minRam Dev helps listeners recognize the divine nature and inner light that already exists inside of each one of us.In this episode, RamDev goes over:Incarnations of light as we move through the winter solsticeComing together in community to explore our inner lightNavigating grief through the holidaysThe divine presence that is beyond time and formThe light within us that is waiting to be recognizedA brief practice and visualization of a being of lightAccepting the true nature of reality and merging with the guruEgo death as the fundamental paradox of spiritual lifeHow clinging to the self blinds us from seeing the lightResting in the quiet mind in order to realize non-duality“When we’re talking about divine incarnation, talking about the birth of the light, it’s a moment to moment realization that we are more than our thoughts, our stories, our identities. The light that we seek is not something outside to be accomplished, not something that we need to attain. It is already within us waiting to be recognized.”
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Ep. 119 – Preparing for Change
09/01/2025 Duración: 41minRamdev teaches us how to adjust our practice and be a warrior of compassion during times of intense political change.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores: Non-aggressively confronting injusticeRecognizing when we are distractedNot running away from feelings that are challengingOperating from love rather than being reactiveReclaiming the brain and taking responsibility for our emotionsDevouring suffering with compassionHow the depth of one’s mindfulness determines the depth of one’s compassionRemembering our universal connection and that we are all sufferingOffering self-compassion and treating ourselves generouslyLearning to meet our edge as a path to enlightenmentLooking into the big unknown and the next four years“As long as we’re blaming the environment for how we’re feeling (I’m feeling really lousy because of the election, or there’s too much traffic, or the weather isn’t great), healing isn’t happening. Drive all blames into oneself means you reclaim the blame and take responsibility f
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Ep. 118 – Relationships of All Sorts
06/12/2024 Duración: 41minExplaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses: Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to othersRelationships as a mirror for how our practice is goingLessening one’s self-absorptionHow fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationshipKeeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the worldBeing with our feelings and not getting lost in the storyAcknowledging when we are running awayUsing relationships to work on our spiritual growthMeeting the messiness of the human conditionSeeing the love within each person“Instead of relationship being only about comfort and enjoyment, and resenting it when it’s not there, use it as the crucible of practice. Use it as the place that is revealing to you where your hea
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Ep. 117 – Maharaj-ji's Teaching
08/11/2024 Duración: 53minSharing stories of Maharaj-ji, RamDev discusses living a life of service and remembering that God, guru, and self are one.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev holds a talk on: Worshiping God in every form and through every personThe guru as the one who brings you to GodGod, guru, and self as oneLove and awareness as the path to the guruThe struggle of having blind faith in GodLessons on money and truthThe Tantric teachings of Maharaj-jiSacrificing thought and turning our minds to GodSimilarities between Maharaj-ji and ChristMaharaj-ji’s encouragement to do mantra practiceThe sense of pure consciousness that is always there“Ram Dass actually summarized all of Maharaj-ji’s teachings in three words: love, serve, remember. Love people, serve people, remember God.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali
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Ep. 116 – A Map to the Heart
16/10/2024 Duración: 01h42minOffering listeners a map to the heart, Ramdev explores how loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity interconnect.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.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 GodThe path of the heart versus the path of inquiryDying into the heart rather than attempting to find everything outHow on-going, unprocessed grief makes it difficult to open the heartTrusting both the light and the painEquanimity as the foundation of the heartHaving devotion to awareness and the sanghaThe many available paths to consciousnessInvoking that which we feel devotion to during our meditationsIntegrating practice into daily life“In the Bible, it talks about ‘pray without ceasing’, and the only way you can do that
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Ep. 115 – Cutting Through Illusion with Chris Beaudry
19/09/2024 Duración: 46minExploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobrietyHow Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knewSeeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in OjaiAllowing oneself to be sad for awhileConscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied wayThe raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful timesHow community and compassion helps us to healAccepting reality for what it isHow familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of lifeThe difficulty in cutting through illusionsThe importance of regular practiceAbout Chris Beaudry:Chris ‘Critter’ Beaudry is a father, farmer, and public speaker who uses his lived experiences as grist for the mill for personal and sp
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Ep. 114 – Service as a Path to Awakening
22/08/2024 Duración: 46minExplaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.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 awakeningHanuman as the aspect of the deity that expresses devotion through selfless serviceNaturally arising compassion and seeing God / the guru in all peopleHow suffering comes from having inappropriate boundariesApproaching service as an expression of love and joyPity as the near enemy of compassionBuilding communities that support serviceBeing of service through full presence and connectionThe many levels of healing and how to support others remotelyLearning compassion through simple moments of meditation“Service takes on a different tone, a different feeling quality in our beings
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Ep. 113 –The Art of Prayer: Tell Me, What Do You Ask Of God?
25/07/2024 Duración: 46minIn conversation with listeners, Ramdev explains how prayer unites us with God and prepares us to receive grace.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about: Prayer as the foundation of every religionHaving faith in the boundless qualities of GodLoving God with passionDifferent levels of prayerHow prayer unites us with God and prepares us for receiving graceAdmitting our humanness within our prayersListener perspectives on different styles of prayerPraying for help from our ancestors and for the healing of othersPrayer as an invitation for God to enter the heartHealing 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.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https
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Ep. 112 – Mind Into Heart
20/06/2024 Duración: 36minBringing the mind into the heart, Ram Dev elucidates how to let go of the ego and surrender into beingness.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev teaches on:Living out concepts after we understand themKeeping our heart open through all of life’s mundane momentsSeparating from the chaos of the world and having an objective experienceHow a rigid attachment to the ego prevents progress in our practiceThe breath as an expression of pure wholenessHaving enough trust to surrender into centerednessDropping into the heart just as we would the breathSeeing God in everyone without the “I” judging everythingThe felt sense of pure awareness moment to momentUsing 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 th
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Ep. 111 – How to Open the Heart
24/05/2024 Duración: 42minDiscussing why it is so difficult to open the heart, Ramdev provides practical lessons on how to rest in the heart-space more often.Today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev speaks about:Why it is so hard to open the heartThe Buddhist Heart Sutra and the nature of the heart as emptyThe quality of non-self and vast opennessThe theoretical versus the practicalHow resting in the heart frees us from the abyssThe way that emotions like fear and anger keep our heart closedUsing mantra to drill into the heartDevotion and compassion as the key parts of an open heartEverything as a display of pure consciousnessReceiving 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?” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy
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Ep. 110 – Awakened Fearlessness
03/05/2024 Duración: 51minExamining the concept of faith, Ramdev talks about awakened fearlessness and surrendering during moments of fear.Today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev lectures on:How saints seem to have no fearThe principal of Sub Ek (all one)Being fearless through seeing God everywhereRamdev’s own experience with terror and surrenderingDeath and being forced to look at what you have faith inHow we work with fearResting in the ‘I am’ rather than the content of thingsRecognizing everything as the motherFear as the demon of the root chakraHow fear develops when we are infantsAnxiety 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.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a
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Ep. 109 – Tantra of Grief
10/04/2024 Duración: 46minRamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens.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 of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on:Dealing with the subtle grief of being in the bodyThe illusion of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessRelaxing into perfection and the boundless nature of the heartTantra and seeing the beloved in everythingFinding opportunities in neutral momentsThe Tantric 3-step and nakedly contacting anger and difficult emotionsRepression and creating space for what must be releasedA 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
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Ep. 108 – Receiving the Body
18/03/2024 Duración: 01h37minRamDev 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 practiceExperiencing this in the body for full presenceEmbodiment perceived as emptinessHow unresolved trauma can get locked in the bodyRelaxation as a way to surrenderRegular stress versus mindful stressSamskaras and psychological imprints on the bodyA somatic angle to the tantric-three-stepThe inherent wakefulness within the bodyReceiving the body as an energetic entityWays that we can be in a flow state with our bodyA 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.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy
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Ep. 107 – Finding the Object of Your Devotion
21/02/2024 Duración: 01h49minWhether 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 guruLetting go of identification with sufferingSeeing the forest versus getting lost in the treesThe grace within devotionHow our psychological integration determines what level of intimacy we will have with GodInhabiting the body and opening the heartWorshiping God in every formConscious grieving and deepening devotionSpaciousness 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 chi
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Ep. 106 – Distraction From Boundless Awareness
02/02/2024 Duración: 50minRamDev analyzes how distraction prevents us from experiencing boundless awareness and the ways we can develop qualities of spaciousness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:How to deal with distractionThe ways that war and politics can consume our mindsShifting between boredom and distraction/entertainmentWhat is behind our ongoing restlessnessThe fear of spaciousness and emptinessNoticing the impulse to fill up spaceHow compassion comes from having a heart that is spaciousDoing Mantras as a vehicle for emptinessAlternative ways to experience openness“The path of the dharma really requires that we develop the courage to look beyond our distractedness, to find what lies behind it, and to not necessarily feed ourselves with ongoing entertainment.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at