RamDev – Healing at the Edge – Ep. 116 – A Map to the Heart

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

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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

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