RamDev – Healing at the Edge – Ep. 118 – Relationships of All Sorts

Explaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses: 
  • Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to others
  • Relationships as a mirror for how our practice is going
  • Lessening one’s self-absorption
  • How fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationship
  • Keeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the world
  • Being with our feelings and not getting lost in the story
  • Acknowledging when we are running away
  • Using relationships to work on our spiritual growth
  • Meeting the messiness of the human condition
  • Seeing the love within each person

“Instead of relationship being only about comfort and enjoyment, and resenting it when it’s not there, use it as the crucible of practice. Use it as the place that is revealing to you where your heart is closing. When your heart is closing to somebody else, really it’s about not loving yourself. If you can love yourself completely, then you can be with everybody.” – 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