RamDev – Healing at the Edge – Ep. 109 – Tantra of Grief

RamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens.

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“In tantra, we’re letting go of our identity. It’s a surrender of the identity into this wisdom that it’s all sacred. That it’s all sacred, it’s all changing. Tantra is not about renunciation or even gradually transforming obstacles through compassion, but seeing the entire world as divine, as a manifestation of the Mother with a capital M.” – RamDev

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on:
  • Dealing with the subtle grief of being in the body
  • The illusion of self
  • Directly experiencing emptiness
  • Relaxing into perfection and the boundless nature of the heart
  • Tantra and seeing the beloved in everything
  • Finding opportunities in neutral moments
  • The Tantric 3-step and nakedly contacting anger and difficult emotions
  • Repression and creating space for what must be released
  • A guided meditation

“We’re going from this grief because we’re feeling separate to compassion for this grief. This compassion reveals the empty nature of the heart, and then this Tantric understanding begins to awaken. Maybe that sounds like a lot of words, but it’s a very somatic, immediate, intimate process that can be experienced right now.” – RamDev

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