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Buddhist teaching at grief's threshold.
Healing At The Edge treats awakening as something tested in grief, politics, prayer, and ordinary emotional life. Its talks move slowly through Buddhist teaching, yoga paths, conscious dying, and the difficult practice of keeping the heart open without losing center.
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Healing At The Edge is a contemplative teaching show about spiritual practice at the threshold of grief, death, devotion, and service. It does not treat mindfulness as a quick calming technique. The talks ask what happens when meditation has to meet the news, a dying person, a broken heart, or the old habits of fear, guilt, and shame. The pace is slow and deliberate. Recent episodes move through collective grief, openhearted boundaries, grounding and centering, ceaseless prayer, healing, and the four paths of yoga. The material is rooted in Buddhist teaching, while also drawing from devotional language, yoga traditions, poetry, and plain emotional observation. Death is not a side subject. It is one of the show's central teachers, a pressure that makes spiritual practice less theoretical and more honest. Grief receives similar treatment. Rather than making grief disappear, the show asks how a person might stay close enough to feel it without becoming consumed by it. Boundaries matter here. Openheartedness is presented as a disciplined state, not a vague kindness, and the recurring question is how to remain available without losing the ground under one's feet. The show also has a social conscience. Episodes refer to public violence, Washington, D.C., and the difficulty of reading the news without collapsing into anger or separation. Still, the focus is not partisan combat. It is the inner work required to keep the heart responsive when the world feels severe. At times the teaching turns toward mantra, prayer, and devotion, asking what constant practice might mean when vigilance starts to sound exhausting. At other times it becomes almost practical counseling, naming the emotional baggage that blocks love, service, meditation, and conscious dying. The voice is intimate, seasoned, and teacherly. It favors long distinctions over slogans. Rumi, Francis Weller, Trungpa Rinpoche, and Paul Reps appear as reference points, but the center remains the lived work of healing. For listeners drawn to Buddhist practice, caregiving, grief work, and devotional inquiry, Healing At The Edge offers a steady room where hard subjects are allowed to breathe.
Made for: For listeners drawn to Buddhist practice, conscious dying, grief work, devotion, and emotionally serious meditation teaching. It especially suits people who want spiritual language grounded in loss, service, and daily practice.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating death, grief, and boundaries as central spiritual material rather than occasional hardships. Its strength is the slow translation of doctrine into usable emotional practice.
RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the coauthor with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life threatening illness, and on caregiving as s...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
RamDev Dale Borglum turns grief, anger and fear into grounded lessons on meditation, bodily awareness and keeping the heart open.
RamDev Dale Borglum keeps returning to the moment when a difficult feeling becomes impossible to ignore. Through direct teaching, guided meditation and an occasional guest conversation, he treats grief, anger, fear and shame as experiences to notice in the body and meet without…
A missed stop sign becomes your cue to keep political fury from driving.
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A calm meditation on grief that treats staying with pain as part of the work.
This episode is a calm, compassionate reflection on grief, public cruelty, and the work of keeping the heart open when both keep coming back. It does not try to solve grief. Instead, it treats pain as something to move through, not around.
Ramdev Dale Borglum presents boundaries as the practice that keeps grief, love, and effective action open.
Ramdev Dale Borglum links boundaries, grief, and openheartedness as parts of one practice. He argues that fear, guilt, shame, and grief can make it hard to stay in an open-hearted, appropriate, boundaried state, and he treats conscious grief as something that depends on those…
A steady meditation on anger, wonder, and staying open without hardening the heart.
The piece sits with politics, anger, and the harder job of staying open when emotions run hot. Its plain advice is simple enough: notice the state for what it is and do not let it calcify into hate.
A reflective talk on meeting end-of-life suffering with presence, awareness, and tantric language.
The episode presents end-of-life care as a practice of meeting fear, anxiety, guilt, shame, and grief head-on, then letting awareness do the work instead of pushing those feelings away.
A steady discussion of grief as practice, with a practical emphasis on staying present.
The episode treats grief as something that can be met, practiced with, and slowly held with more mercy. It is at its best when it connects community validation to the small daily moments when the mind wanders and the heart tightens, then widens back out to the larger idea that…
Mindfulness widened into awe.
Yoga practice beyond the mat.
A brief invitation to a meditation teacher training discussion opens the recording.
Ramdev centers the episode on boundaries.
This episode promotes a free online event with Buddhist teacher David Nickturn about teaching mindfulness meditation and the Dharma Moon teacher training program.
This episode features a promotion for a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and a plea for donations to support a dying center that offers free end-of-life care.
This episode explores the four paths of yoga—Karma, Bhakti, Jnana, and Raja—examining their differences, strengths, and weaknesses.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, featuring Buddhist teacher David Nickturn and the Dharma Moon teacher training program.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and then begins a talk titled 'Healing Everything' about healing.
RamDev Dale Borglum discusses the foundation of awakening and promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, followed by a personal anecdote about dealing with a cable company bill.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, followed by discussion of working with intense emotions and deepening spiritual practice.
The episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and then reflects on finding joy rather than pleasure, using a Mary Oliver poem.
The episode sits with a very interesting moment in America and the strong feelings many people are carrying around politics.
Dale Borglum speaks about turning poison into medicine.
This episode features an introduction to a podcast about conscious living and dying, highlighting host Dale Borglum's extensive experience as a meditation teacher and work with the dying.
This episode explores how to open the heart through meditation, featuring insights from a renowned Buddhist teacher and promoting a mindfulness teacher training event.
Ramdev Dale Borglum and a guest talk about grief as something many people are already carrying, whether or not a death has made it visible.
This episode promotes a free online event with Buddhist teacher David Nickturn about teaching mindfulness meditation and the Dharma Moon teacher training program.
Dale Borglum discusses fully conscious dying and promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, followed by a discussion on using emptiness to work with anxiety.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, followed by a discussion on emotions and the heart in spiritual practice.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, followed by discussion on cultivating wisdom amidst collective suffering.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and discusses the Dharma Moon teacher training program.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and discusses conscious dying and meditation practices.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and explores how suffering is created by our relationship with experience, not external circumstances.
The episode discusses devotion to truth and the role of the Guru in spiritual practice, with a promotion for a mindfulness meditation teacher training event.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and discusses the concept of receiving love in spiritual practice.
Promotion of a free online event on mindfulness meditation teacher training, followed by a talk on the Tantra of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and explores themes of grief and healing.
This episode features an interview with Deborah Eden Tull on the Healing at the Edge podcast, exploring themes of meditation, shadow work, and spiritual growth.
Promotion of a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation, followed by a discussion on devotional relationship with experience.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and discusses conscious dying and grief as transformational experiences.
This episode promotes a free online event on teaching mindfulness meditation and explores the Tantric stage of the spiritual path where everything is seen as God.