Episode 197: Meditation in the Modern World

In this episode, Meditation in the Modern World, we listen to an excerpt from the opening talk of the first audio program Reggie recorded with Sounds True in 2003. He says that meditation helps us cut through the busyness and distractions of the modern world so that we can connect with our true life.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Meditating with the Body: Six Tibetan Buddhist Meditations for Touching Enlightenment with the Body, an intensive training audio course produced by Sounds True. It is available for download in the Dharma Ocean online store.

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Episode 196: The Flowering of Modern Buddhism – Part III

In the final part of this talk on Buddhism in the modern world, The Flowering of Modern Buddhism, Reggie discusses the flowering of the three jewels: the Buddha as the lineage of emptiness; the Dharma as the profound teachings on meditation; and the sangha as the community of people who are at home in the loneliness, warmth, and craziness of the journey.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 195: The Flowering of Modern Buddhism – Part II

In The Flowering of Modern Buddhism Part II, Reggie asks: what makes meditation unique when compared to other approaches to health, well-being, exploration, and discovery? He says that it is the direct experience of emptiness found in the practice of completely letting go.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 194: The Flowering of Modern Buddhism – Part I

In the first part of this talk on modern spirituality,The Flowering of Modern Buddhism,  Reggie says that organized religion is not the legacy of the Buddha, nor is the narcissistic materialism that underlies many individualistic approaches to meditation in global culture right now.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 193: Every Mind State is Workable

In this talk,  Every Mind State is Workable, Reggie discusses the destabilizing process of somatic meditation. Practice, he says, opens space in our state of being that gives rise to surprising and unexpected experiences.

This talk was given in April 2005 at the Meditating with the Body Retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 192: Path of Opening Down – Part 2

In the second part of this talk on the journey of meditation, Path of Opening Down, Reggie says that it is important to not hang on to anything in our practice. Integrity in meditation is opening to what is, not chasing daylight, and letting go of what we think.

This talk was given in April 2005 at the Meditating with the Body Retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 191: Path of Opening Down – Part I

In this talk, Path of Opening Down, Reggie says that the samsaric approach to chaos is to try to limit it, control it, and shut it down. The purpose of meditation is to make room for chaos. In doing this, we open to the unknown and the unencumbered birth of our life.

This talk was given in April 2005 at the Meditating with the Body Retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 190: Working with Psychological Distress

Episode – Working with Psychological Distress: Meditation allows space to open in our state of being for difficult, challenging, and distressing experiences to arise. Reggie says that these experiences are not pathological, but rather expressions of the unconscious calling for recognition and acceptance.

This talk is excerpted from Reggie’s online course called Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation.

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Episode 189: Shadowlands

In this episode, Shadowlands, we listen to an excerpt from a talk Reggie offered on how the range of direct experience increases as we progress along the path of somatic meditation. He says that fear, anxiety, and apprehension in practice are often harbingers of awakening.

This talk is excerpted from Reggie’s online course called Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation.

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Episode 188: Spirituality and Religion

In this talk, Spirituality and Religion, Reggie discusses the difference between religion and spirituality. He says that religious traditions often gain inspiration from living spirituality, but there is a distinction: religions offer maps, while spirituality is the flame of meaning in one’s life.

This talk is excerpted from Reggie’s online course called Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation.

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Episode 187: Wholehearted Commitment

In this episode, Wholehearted Commitment, Reggie comments on how dependence on the teacher can stunt fundamental transformation. True growth, he says, requires unconditional commitment. Through letting go of options, we are cornered by the imperatives of the journey.

This talk was given in 2010 as an audio journal entry for the sangha.

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Episode 186: Tibetan Tantra: An Esoteric Tradition – Part II

In the second part of this talk on Vajrayana tantra “Tibetan Tantra: An Esoteric Tradition”, Reggie reflects on the somatic journey of becoming transparent to the cosmos through our own body. He says that the siddha tradition does not involve renunciation of worldly life, rather awakening unfolds within and through everyday experience.

This talk was given in 2009 at a public program in San Francisco, CA.

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Episode 185: Tibetan Tantra: An Esoteric Tradition – Part I

In this talk, Tibetan Tantra: An Esoteric Tradition, Reggie comments on the esoteric tradition of Buddhist meditation that Chögyam Trungpa taught to Western students. He describes the terrifying experience of encountering a person who completely embodied empty open awareness: it inspired him to become naked to life.

This talk was given in 2009 at a public program in San Francisco, CA.

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Episode 184: Risk and Trust – Part III

Today, we listen to the third part of Reggie’s talk Risk and Trust, on the radical journey of individuation that occurs when we trust the inherent force of our unique karma. Through this process, we learn to let go of expectations and embody our individuality with integrity.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 183: Risk and Trust – Part II

In Risk and Trust Part II, Reggie says that the true path of Dharma is risky because it leads to full disclosure of who we are. In the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa, we cultivate a suspicion of spiritual ambition, narcissism, goals of attainment, and religious traditions. In this way, we become ever more naked to the bare reality of life.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 182: Risk and Trust – Part I

In the first part of this talk on the Vajrayana tradition, Risk and Trust, Reggie comments on the shocking nature of the meditative path of desire. He says that the wisdom of Buddhism is that is does not offer answers, but rather practices for realizing the lineage. It is the unconventional way of awakening.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 181: Space, Energy, and the Elements – Part II

In the second part of this talk on the nature of space, Space, Energy, and the Elements, Reggie discusses how the primordial expression of energy manifests as the five elementals: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Each element, he says, is inherently open and empty, and yet has qualities. He describes the qualities in detail.

This talk was given at the 2009 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 180: Space, Energy, and the Elements – Part I

In this talk, Space, Energy, and the Elements – Part I, Reggie speaks to a group of longtime practitioners about the elemental energies of the cosmos that we encounter on the journey of somatic meditation. When we work with the elements, he says, we contact the primordial energy of space that is ultimately beyond dualism.

This talk was given at the 2009 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 179: Physical and Emotional Pain – Part III

In the final part of this talk on discomfort, Physical and Emotional Pain, Reggie discusses a second approach to working with painful emotions: to offer them to the lineage. By doing this, we discover that we are not alone, that our experience is worthy, and that it is okay to ask for help.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 178: Physical and Emotional Pain – Part II

In Physical and Emotional Pain Part II, Reggie says that the pain we feel in meditation practice is a teacher, a gateway through which the body expresses the unconscious. When we welcome pain, we liberate reality. Suffering is the harbinger of enlightenment.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 177: Physical and Emotional Pain – Part I

The practice of siting meditation often gives rise to experiences of pain and discomfort. In this talk, Physical and Emotional Pain Part I, Reggie offers instruction for working with pain on the meditation cushion. He says that pain is often caused by patterns of tension in our body that trap feelings that we don’t want to feel.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 176: Journey of Refuge

In this refuge ceremony talk, Journey of Refuge, Reggie discusses the meaning of the three jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. He says that the ritual of refuge connects us with the lineage, the stream of awakened beings who we can call upon to assist us on the journey of meditation.

This talk was given at a Dharma Village Refuge Ceremony held on March 11, 1998 at Karma Dzong in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 175: Spirituality and Trauma – Part II

In Spirituality and Trauma – Part II, Reggie explains how we heal trauma through identifying with the vast space and warmth of the earth. This “groundless ground” is the source of the life force that we work with in somatic meditation. It is a state of being that is whole and free.

This talk was given at the 2016 The Body Loves retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 174: Spirituality and Trauma – Part I

Episode – Spirituality and Trauma – Part I: In the first part of this talk on trauma and the spiritual journey, Reggie addresses the question: should we work with a therapist and heal our traumas before we engage the path of dharma? He says that the journey of somatic spirituality helps us understand that trauma is the human condition and, with meditation practice, can be healed.

This talk was given at the 2016 The Body Loves retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 173: Dignity in Depression

In this talk, Dignity in Depression, Reggie discusses how the Meditating with the Body practices help us open to the wisdom of emotions. Emotions, like those associated with depression, can challenge our thinking, illuminate what is false, and invite us into a profound journey of individuation.

This talk was given at the April 2006 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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