Explaining how collective grief may manifest as anger, RamDev teaches listeners how they can transform negative emotions into compassionate action.
“It’s imperative to feel permission to feel your own grief, to not feel you have to get over it.” –RamDev
This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:
- The universal experience of grief
- The weight of broken promises in America
- How grief was handled more collectively in traditional societies
- The diluting force of anger and moments of tunnel vision
- When anger can actually be a productive response to grief
- What the Buddha said regarding anger
- Learning to be with grief without bypassing, suppressing, or drowning in it
- Resting in sky-like boundlessness, watching emotions pass like the weather
“The energy of anger as a grief response can be a productive response if we can begin to work with the emotion. What does it feel like? How can I transmute the feeling of anger into compassionate action? There is a lot of very powerful, strong juice behind the anger. It can be harnessed. It can be used to protest, to create change.” –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 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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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.