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: Fall & Winter 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. 

Listen to audio from Reggie's most recent teaching tour, "Explorations of Tibetan Tantra," which concluded in January 2010.  The next opportunity to study with Reggie will be Dathün in December 2010/January 2011.

Photo credits: Meditators © David Abelson; Reginald A. Ray dona laurita,foto di vita ©2009  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. Ray.

Community Updates

• New Audio Offered: Complete Recordings from Explorations of Tibetan Tantra: A Weekend Workshop w/ Reggie Ray in Portland, OR • Nov 20-22, 2009 & Nov 12 Stanford University talk: Tantric Saints in Indian Buddhism
  
• January 2010 Video Address to the Dhyanasangha posted for members
• New Audio posted for Vajrasangha: Tantrika discussions held during Dathün 2009-10
• Register now for Meditating with the Body 2010 and Sutrayana Study 2010!
  
• Listen to a recent public talk, given in Boulder, CO on December 4, 2009 at the Star House - Beside Ourselves: The Embodied Spiritual Journey in a Time of Crisis
• The complete August 2009 Dhyanasangha Weekend Recordings are now posted for members
  
  

Weekly Practice Instruction from Reggie

I Don't Know If I Can Do This

Student: I don't know if I can do this?
Teacher: I don't know if you can either.
Student: How does one know?
Teacher: In one way, you don't know, ever, until you attain enlightenment. And then the thought doesn't cross your mind. In anothe ... Read more