RamDev – Healing at the Edge – Ep. 106 – Distraction From Boundless Awareness

RamDev analyzes how distraction prevents us from experiencing boundless awareness and the ways we can develop qualities of spaciousness.

“The path of the dharma really requires that we develop the courage to look beyond our distractedness, to find what lies behind it, and to not necessarily feed ourselves with ongoing entertainment.” – RamDev

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:
  • How to deal with distraction
  • The ways that war and politics can consume our minds
  • Shifting between boredom and distraction/entertainment
  • What is behind our ongoing restlessness
  • The fear of spaciousness and emptiness
  • Noticing the impulse to fill up space
  • How compassion comes from having a heart that is spacious
  • Doing Mantras as a vehicle for emptiness
  • Alternative ways to experience openness

“Everybody in this virtual room has been in that place of profound openness, whether through meditation or being in nature or through psychedelics or raising a child, or on and on, playing music. Can we keep repeating that moment? What is more important than bringing in that openness into daily activity?” – RamDev

Photo via vladee
Listen to more from RamDev Dale Borglum:
RamDev talks about how the current state of the world is uncovering so many opportunities for practice, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 48
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 a the Edge Ep. 46.
RamDev Dale Borglum