Welcome to Dharma Ocean
The Dharma Ocean Foundation offers us the chance to live within the brilliance of our deepest lives. Within our Buddhist lineage, meditation is the primary way to uncover this radiance, and the foundation offers a wide range of retreats and programs in the sitting practice of meditation. Introductory events include Meditating with the Body and Winter Dathün, both of which occur annually in Crestone, Colorado.  Dr. Reginald A. Ray and his senior students share Dharma Ocean teachings with beginning practitioners at City Sanghas and other locations around the globe.

Spirituality of the Body: 2009 Fall Teaching Tour

"To be awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully embodied means to be at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation"  --Reggie Ray.  For more information on Reggie's upcoming tour, including weekend intensive dates and cities visited, please click here

Photo credits: Meditators © David Abelson; Reginald A. Ray © Amy R M Stahl;  All Buddhist statues courtesy of Tibet Gallery

Reginald A. Ray . . .

As the Spirtual Director of Dharma Ocean, Reggie brings us four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan tradition, as well as a special gift for applying it to the unique spiritual imperatives of modern people. He teaches within the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Listen to a guided meditation with Dr. Reginald A. Ray.

Community Updates

• Dharma Ocean Retreat Center Opens for Public Use
• Vajrayana Training Intensive July 2009

Practitioner's Notebook

Practice is not a substitute for life

Practice should not be a substitute for life. Rather, it should be an incentive for life, a crucible for life, and a way to work with life. What is life? As the Buddha said, it is suffering. We mustn't expect practice to change that fact.

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