Focusing on grounding practices, RamDev shares spiritual wisdom on how to transform fear, guilt, and shame into love and mercy.

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In this episode, RamDev gives insightful perspectives on:

• The instability of the heart and how fear, guilt, and shame keep us closed off
• Why we are so reactive to the chaos of world events and how to respond with wisdom instead
• Practical ways to work with fear, guilt, and shame so the heart can open moment to moment
• Embracing our divine nature without denying our humanness
• The power of grounding and trusting in the body as a source of safety
• Learning to fully receive the support of the earth and the Divine Mother
• Living in a third chakra society where power is out of balance
• Becoming an embodiment of mercy and compassion rather than idolizing power

“Fear, guilt, and shame are the demons of the first, second, and third chakras, respectively, and until we have worked with those emotions in a direct way, it is really impossible for the heart to be open in a stable way.” – RamDev

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum 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 Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and 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. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Through the selfless practices of Tantra and Guru Yoga, RamDev outlines how to have a conscious relationship with anger rather than allowing it to consume us.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev gives a talk on:

• Having a neutral view of anger (not good v. bad) and consciously allowing ourselves to feel it
• Recognizing anger as a valid response to the state of the world
• Seeing all beings and experiences—even those that trigger anger—as expressions of the Divine
• Noticing that we are often not angry for the reasons we think we are
• Lessening one’s self-absorption as a key point of the spiritual path
• Cultivating gratitude and appreciation for everyone we encounter
• Exploring Guru Yoga: merging with the guru’s wisdom and presence
• Realizing our inherent wholeness and receiving blessings from the guru
• Becoming nobody so that there is no one to become lost in anger
• Transmuting outer devotion to tantric, inner devotion
• Feeling anger and sadness without becoming consumed by it
• Remembering that the same shakti fueling anger can also power creativity

“Anger is not good or bad. Anger is often a reasonable response to what is going on in the world. Yet, it is a difficult emotion because it’s so hot, and it’s often very sudden. In Buddhism, fear and anger are thought to be the same emotion.” – RamDev

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As a path to eternal vigilance and ultimately, cessation of suffering, Ramdev encourages us to tune into the present moment during times of mundanity and neutrality.

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In this episode, RamDev offers a balanced perspective on:

• Practicing awareness during neutral, mundane, or transitional moments
• The four Buddhist foundations of mindfulness (body, mind, feelings, dharma)
• The three Buddhist characteristics of existence (impermanence, suffering no self)
• Working skillfully with neutral states so that we are prepared for both joy and adversity
• Embracing eternal vigilance as a tool for inner transformation
• Observing the process of thinking instead of getting caught in thought content
• Asking the powerful question: “How alive do I want to be?”
• Practicing loving-kindness (metta) and checking in with our inner states and levels of connectedness
• Shifting our mental habits to move from unconsciousness toward greater conscious awareness

“What I notice, if I am not paying attention to neutral states, that almost always there is this eternal monologue going on and it’s a way of the ego saying ‘I’m here’. One of the most direct practices I have found for not getting lost in that inner monologue during so many of these neutral moments is learning the practice of watching the mind—Not what you're thinking about, but being aware of thinking itself.” – RamDev

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