Through faith, meditation, and surrender to the divine, RamDev explores the art of resting in presence—embracing all of life, light and dark alike.
This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev chats about:
- Recognizing that presence is always there, whether the mind is calm or not
- How having faith in presence will actually quiet the mind
- A short guided meditation
- Seeing God in everything rather than trying to figure everything out
- Taking inspiration from Rumi and resting in the heart-cave
- Finding the space to be with what we feel, rather than wondering why we are feeling it
- Giving up our identity and story and being in presence itself
- Searching for an embodied sense of self which unites with The One
- Accepting both the dark and the light
- The poem Lovedogs by Rumi
- Living without resistance to the divine unfolding of reality
“We in the West tend to think of presence or God as something positive, pleasant, and enjoyable, and yet, it’s all presence. There is nothing that isn’t.” –RamDev
About RamDev 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 co-author 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 meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and 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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Listen to more from RamDev Dale Borglum:
RamDev gives a dharma talk about cultivating enough faith to face things as they are, and leads a meditation centered on the power of the grounding breath in Healing at the Edge Ep. 49.
Building a bridge from separation to connection, RamDev offers practices for staying grounded, working with emotions like grief, and transmuting fear into love, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 67.
RamDev shares stories of his time with Ram Dass from the early days of the satsang and reflects on what Ram Dass meant to him as a teacher and friend in Healing at the Edge Ep. 42.
RamDev shares a dharma talk on how we can ease our suffering by offering compassion to our fear, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 46