Episode 172: Depression is a Gateway

In Depression is a Gateway, Reggie shows how depression can be a powerful force of transformation. He says that when we let go of thoughts and judgments, and take the energy of depression as an object of mindfulness, it can liberate us from the reference points that cause us to suffer.

These selections are from the 2008 Winter Dathün retreat and the Meditating with the Body Core Curriculum.

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Episode 171: Making Friends with Ourselves – Part III

Reggie begins the third part of this talk on maitri, Making Friends with Ourselves – Part III, by describing how Chogyam Trungpa made room for his students’ meltdowns. He says that we ourselves develop this capacity when we practice loving-kindness from an embodied space of emptiness.

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 170: Making Friends with Ourselves – Part II

In part two of this talk on loving-kindness, Making Friends with Ourselves, Reggie discusses the second and third aspects of maitri practice: meeting our meltdowns with gentleness, and welcoming the damaged aspects of ourselves with love.

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 169: Making Friends with Ourselves – Part I

At the beginning of this talk, Making Friends with Ourselves, Reggie says that maitri is a practice in which we make room for all of the things that go on for us that we typically think are unacceptable. By developing an attitude of loving-kindness toward ourselves, concepts fall away, and we realize that there is no “self” to judge.

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 168: Knowing with the Heart – Part II

In the second part of this talk on the practice of bodhicitta shamatha and vipashayana, Knowing with the Heart Reggie talks about how we experience the world when we see it through the eyes of the heart. It is a practice of knowing others from the standpoint of their experience.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 167: Knowing with the Heart – Part I

In this talk, Knowing with the Heart – Part I, Reggie discusses the mahamudra approach to working with the heart in meditation practice. He says that the space of the heart shows us how to open beyond the ways we habitually shut down to feelings, experiences, and people.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 166: Open Heart – Part II

Reggie begins the second part of this talk on open heartedness, Open Heart, by saying that “the heart, in its own state of being, is the awakened state.” Through somatic meditation practice, we discover the enlightened qualities of the heart: vast, free, warm, responsive, and without judgment.

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 165: Open Heart – Part I

In working with the heart in our meditation practice, Open Heart, we may discover that we are not receptive to the feelings that arise in that space. In this talk, Reggie discusses the ways we defend against experiences of vulnerability when we judge uncomfortable feelings.

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 164: Rooted in Community

Organized religions have a history of denying the indigenous roots of human spirituality. In this talk, Rooted in Community, Reggie says that as meditators we are recovering a primordial connection with the land, our deep ancestors, and the vast community of all beings.

This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathün retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 163: The Practicing Lineage

In The Practicing Lineage, Reggie points to the immensity of the space at the core of our being. He says that in the practicing lineage eternity is our guide—not books, philosophy, or intellect. It is through meditation that our ideas about reality fall away and we connect directly with the fire of the life force.

This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 161: The Dathün Journey

In The Dathün Journey, Reggie offers an overview of the spiritual journey that unfolds in a month long Winter Dathün meditation retreat. He says that when we surrender to the practice forms of a Dathün, impulsiveness and distraction dissolve and we discover a vast inner world.

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

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Episode 160: Human Freedom

In meditation retreat we commit to a practice container that is designed to decrease distraction. In this talk, Human Freedom, Reggie discusses the wisdom that awakens when we surrender to sacred forms: we relax, our minds settle, and we discover the river of our true life.

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

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Episode 159: Entering Retreat

This is Reggie’s opening talk, Entering Retreat,  to a cohort of meditators at the beginning of month-long meditation retreat. He explains that in retreat we enter a liminal space where conventional logic doesn’t apply. In letting go, we become sensitive to the suffering and magic of the world.

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

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Episode 158: Drop to the Depths – Part II

In the second half of this talk, Drop to the Depths,  on the importance of relating to the depths in meditation practice, Reggie explains how our relationship with the earth unlocks the reality of the unseen world. The Vajrayana journey is about becoming intimate with the reality we discover there.

This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 157: Drop to the Depths – Part I

Vajrayana teachers show us how to drop into the depths of being. In this talk, Drop to the Depths, Reggie talks about the feminine reality that we encounter when we descend into the space of the earth. Through the process of ego dissolution, we arrive at a blissful point of union with the pure love of our true mother.

This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 156: Thread of Relativity – Part III

This is the third part of Reggie’s talk on the Vajrayana approach to the practice of shamatha and vipashyana, Thread of Relativity. He explains how meditation teaches us to ignore what we think about our life and instead follow the sacred thread of relativity. It’s a very daring approach because we have no idea where the thread might lead.

This talk was given at the 2008 Winter Dathün retreat held at in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 155: Thread of Relativity – Part II

In the second part of this talk on the practice of shamatha and vipashyana, Thread of Relativity, Reggie says that the process of meditation allows us to connect with the vast, empty, boundless quality of awareness. This space compels us to drop preoccupations and connect with our lust for relative experience.

This talk was given at the 2008 Winter Dathün retreat held at in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 154: Thread of Relativity – Part I

In this talk, Thread of Relativity, Reggie discusses the two main aspects of the practice of meditation: shamatha and vipashyana. Through shamatha, we learn to step away from our thinking. Vipashyana is a discovery of how things actually are. This meditative process is the gateway to discovering the dynamic play of relative life.

This talk was given at the 2008 Winter Dathün retreat held at in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 153: Touching the Totality

In this talk, Touching the Totality, Reggie encourages us to use the tools offered in the Tibetan tradition of Vajrayana meditation to receive the message of eternity offered in each moment of experience. The purpose of life is discovered, he says, when we touch the totality.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 152: Fire of Experience – Part II

Today, we listen to the second half of Reggie’s talk Fire of Experience, on how we cultivate an unmediated relationship with experience through the practice of meditation. He says that ego shuts down the life of experiences through judgment. When we stop judging, the life force becomes free.

This talk was given at the 2011 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 150: The Purpose of Ritual

Today, we listen to a teaching Reggie offered on the purpose of ritual on the path of meditation, The Purpose of Ritual. The context is a lhasang fire offering, a Vajrayana ritual often engaged at the beginning of retreats. He says that ritual is the primordial language used to communicate with the unseen world.

This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 149: Dancing with the Unseen World

In this talk, Dancing with the Unseen World, Reggie discusses how the beings of the unseen world protect us when they interrupt the expectations of ego. Our relationship with the unseen world, he says, is essential to the success of retreat.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 148: The Power of Posture

In The Power of Posture, Reggie discusses how we suffer when we freeze against the natural flow and movement of experience. This defensiveness is expressed as holding and tension in the body. In somatic meditation, we release tension and liberate the karma of unlived experiences.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 147: Holding Experience

In this episode, Holding Experience, we listen to a talk Reggie offered on the importance of holding our experience. When we remain rooted in our bodies, no matter the intensity of the energy we feel, we liberate karma from cyclical patterns of existence.

This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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