RamDev shares tokens of personal wisdom and encourages listeners to evaluate their practice in order to guide themselves and others on the spiritual path.

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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 away
• Doing all things from the mindstate of guru seva versus ego
• Considering what we have faith in and if we need heart work or mindfulness work
• Looking 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 stress and relaxation
• Developing spiritual confidence via facing uncomfortable feelings
• Holding space and being a guide for someone who is averse to spirituality

"Running away from our demons makes them real. One of my main jobs as a guide is to tell people to sit still and be with that demon for a little while. Lean into it. Compassion can only arise after there is direct contact with the quality of suffering. You can't short-circuit that fundamental step. You can't heal something until you can meet it directly, nakedly, intimately."– RamDev

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Connecting grief, faith, and devotion, RamDev describes the spiritual price we pay when we ignore the fundamental grief we all experience.

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In this episode, RamDev explains to listeners:

• The many forms that grief can come in
• Grief in our daily lives and feeling subtly separate from God and others
• How deep grief can shatter our faith
• Faith as an integral motivator for our practice
• The cyclical, positive relationship between faith and devotion
• Having an intimate, faith-based relationship with grief
• Our addiction to grief and becoming lost in our pain
• How we can consciously work with grief
• Opening to our own grief in order to be fully compassionate to others
• Trusting that we can become vulnerable and awaken to our own true nature
• Noticing sensations of grief and compassion for grief in our bodies
• Having appropriate boundaries when working with collective grief

“Unresolved grief has a numbing effect. These effects tend to accumulate and block our free expressions of the heart. Our goal is not to stop grief, but to help process it in whatever ways it might arise.” – RamDev

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Ram 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 solstice
• Coming together in community to explore our inner light
• Navigating grief through the holidays
• The divine presence that is beyond time and form
• The light within us that is waiting to be recognized
• A brief practice and visualization of a being of light
• Accepting the true nature of reality and merging with the guru
• Ego death as the fundamental paradox of spiritual life
• How clinging to the self blinds us from seeing the light
• Resting 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.” – RamDev

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Ramdev 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 injustice
• Recognizing when we are distracted
• Not running away from feelings that are challenging
• Operating from love rather than being reactive
• Reclaiming the brain and taking responsibility for our emotions
• Devouring suffering with compassion
• How the depth of one’s mindfulness determines the depth of one’s compassion
• Remembering our universal connection and that we are all suffering
• Offering self-compassion and treating ourselves generously
• Learning to meet our edge as a path to enlightenment
• Looking 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 for how you’re feeling. The election is not making you feel a particular way, your set of conditioning in relationship to the election is creating certain emotions in you.” – RamDev

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Explaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to others
• Relationships as a mirror for how our practice is going
• Lessening one’s self-absorption
• How fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationship
• Keeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the world
• Being with our feelings and not getting lost in the story
• Acknowledging when we are running away
• Using relationships to work on our spiritual growth
• Meeting the messiness of the human condition
• Seeing 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 heart is closing. When your heart is closing to somebody else, really it’s about not loving yourself. If you can love yourself completely, then you can be with everybody.” – RamDev

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Sharing stories of Maharaj-ji, RamDev discusses living a life of service and remembering that God, guru, and self are one.

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In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev holds a talk on:

• Worshiping God in every form and through every person
• The guru as the one who brings you to God
• God, guru, and self as one
• Love and awareness as the path to the guru
• The struggle of having blind faith in God
• Lessons on money and truth
• The Tantric teachings of Maharaj-ji
• Sacrificing thought and turning our minds to God
• Similarities between Maharaj-ji and Christ
• Maharaj-ji’s encouragement to do mantra practice
• The 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.” – RamDev

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Offering listeners a map to the heart, Ramdev explores how loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity interconnect.

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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 God
• The path of the heart versus the path of inquiry
• Dying into the heart rather than attempting to find everything out
• How on-going, unprocessed grief makes it difficult to open the heart
• Trusting both the light and the pain
• Equanimity as the foundation of the heart
• Having devotion to awareness and the sangha
• The many available paths to consciousness
• Invoking that which we feel devotion to during our meditations
• Integrating practice into daily life

“In the Bible, it talks about ‘pray without ceasing’, and the only way you can do that is if your practice goes so deep into yourself that it’s happening without you doing it because other times you’re doing other things. The quality of the prayer saturates the cloth of your being, you’re colored by the prayer.” – RamDev

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Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.

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In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over:

• Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobriety
• How Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knew
• Seeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in Ojai
• Allowing oneself to be sad for awhile
• Conscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied way
• The raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful times
• How community and compassion helps us to heal
• Accepting reality for what it is
• How familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of life
• The difficulty in cutting through illusions
• The importance of regular practice

About 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 spiritual growth. Read more about Chris HERE.

“Life is hard. You’re not getting out of this one alive. You’re going to grieve, you’re going to lose, that’s the nature of reality. But, that doesn’t mean we have to harden to it. That doesn’t mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris Beaudry

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