RamDev – Healing at the Edge – Ep. 115 – Cutting Through Illusion with Chris Beaudry

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

“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

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.

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