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

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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Explaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action.

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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 awakening
• Hanuman as the aspect of the deity that expresses devotion through selfless service
• Naturally arising compassion and seeing God / the guru in all people
• How suffering comes from having inappropriate boundaries
• Approaching service as an expression of love and joy
• Pity as the near enemy of compassion
• Building communities that support service
• Being of service through full presence and connection
• The many levels of healing and how to support others remotely
• Learning compassion through simple moments of meditation

“Service takes on a different tone, a different feeling quality in our beings, if instead of doing it out of guilt or I need to stay busy or I’m trying to help people, it’s an act of love. It’s your relationship with the beloved, that the homeless person, your partner, even your self, is a manifestation of that which is love. Then, service is transformed. It’s an act of joy, not a responsibility.” – RamDev

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