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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Episode 146: Welcoming Confusion

When we open to the depths of space in meditation practice, tremendous energy arises in our state of being. In this talk, Welcoming Confusion, Reggie offers a teaching on how to relate to the intensity of energy in a straightforward way. He says that when we sit with energy, confusion transforms into compassion.

This talk was given at the 2004 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 145: Offering to the Fire

In this talk, Offering to the Fire, Reggie offers a teaching on the practice of lhasang: a ritual in which we offer our ego to a fire. In offering our agendas, ambitions, judgments, and self-importance we become ever more empty, open, and free.

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

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Episode 144: The Human Soul

In this talk, The Human Soul, Reggie addresses the conventional Buddhist notion of “no-soul.” He says that, from the perspective of Vajrayana Buddhism, the soul is the essential nature that transcends life and death. It is felt in the constantly unfolding sacredness and individuality of our unique personhood.

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 143: When Reality Strikes – Part II

In the second part of this talk on the journey of dharma, When Reality Strikes, Reggie says that fundamental personal transformation involves stripping away ego identifications and opening to vastly different states of being. Like Indra’s net, we discover that our life is a reflection of the entire universe.

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 142: When Reality Strikes – Part I

In this talk, When Reality Strikes, Reggie says that the true dharma is always a surprise. When reality strikes, our lives are upended and we are presented with a choice: leap to the groundlessness, or try to shore up the bubble of ego.

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 141: We Are All Hard Cases

In today’s episode, We Are All Hard Cases, Reggie acknowledges the bravery and courage we exhibit when we make the journey together as a community of practitioners who love and care for one another. In spite of our fears, we take a chance on love.

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 140: Ocean of Love – Part II

In the second part of this talk on love, Ocean of Love, Reggie discusses the ways in which we turn away from the intimacy of space. He says that in retreat, we learn how to open to the fundamental emptiness of our lives. From that emptiness, energy is born. The question is: are we willing to rest in the vastness and relate to the intensity of what arises?

This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 139: Ocean of Love – Part I

In this talk, Ocean of Love, Reggie says that we are all held in an ocean of love. This love is the fundamental nature of the universe, and within it we progress through our lives, always invited to an experience of open heartedness that connects with all that is.

This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 138: Healing Beyond Dependency

In Healing Beyond Dependency, Reggie discusses the journey of empowerment that occurs when we work with gifted healers. True healers, he says, enable us to individuate and develop a direct relationship with reality that is free of the trappings of psychological dependency.

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 137: Loving Kindness – Part II

This week we listen to the second part of Reggie’s talk on cultivating gentleness and openness toward all aspects of life through the practice of maitri. Loving-kindness, he says, begins with ourselves: we establish a ground of trust, simplify our lives, sit with experience, and don’t judge anything.

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

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Episode 136: Loving Kindness – Part I

In this talk, Loving Kindness – Part I, Reggie addresses the pervasive culture of self-hatred that drives aggression and the forces of destruction in our world. He says that when we meditate with a heart of loving-kindness, our defenses soften and we discover an experience of space that is free from the distortions of self-aggression.

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

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Episode 135: Guests for Tea – Part II

Today we listen to the second part of Reggie’s talk on the practice of developing loving-kindness for the difficult and unwanted aspects of life, Guests for Tea. He says that when we stop judging ourselves, open to the wisdom of our emotions, and honor the upwelling of the life force within us, there is an opportunity to discover the inherent sacredness of our unique incarnation.

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

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Episode 134: Guests for Tea – Part I

In today’s episode, Guests for Tea, Reggie discusses the ways we hold our lives hostage through judgment, self-criticism, and perfectionism. Maitri, he says, employs the inherent power of loving-kindness to naturally shift self-aggressive tendencies. It is a practice that helps us open to the unwanted guests knocking at the door.

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

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Episode 133: The Indian Siddhas – Part II

Today we listen to the second part of Reggie’s talk on the mahasiddhas of ancient India. The spiritual journey of the siddha Naropa, he says, demonstrates the inherent risk associated with the practice of Buddhist tantra: the grittiness of reality challenges our most cherished ideas about spiritual attainment and invites us to meet the outrageous and unbelievable expressions of life.

This talk is from Buddhist Tantra, an audio course produced by Sounds True. Reggie’s audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity, was recently published by Sounds True.

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Episode 132: The Indian Siddhas – Part I

In this talk, The Indian Siddhas, Reggie discusses the mahasiddhas of ancient India: ordinary people who attained realization in the midst of everyday life. Their example, he says, reminds us of how spiritual transformation occurs within the exact circumstances of our unique lives.

This talk is from Buddhist Tantra, an audio course produced by Sounds True. Reggie’s audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity, was recently published by Sounds True.

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Episode 130: Pure Awareness

In today’s talk, Pure Awareness, Reggie discusses the importance of posture in the practice of pure awareness, and addresses recent historical scholarship regarding the contributions of Chan Buddhism in the development of Mahamudra practice in Tibet. These discoveries, he says, demonstrate the flexible dynamism and open-endedness of the Mahamudra tradition.

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held in Crestone, CO. Reggie’s audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity, was recently published by Sounds True.

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Episode 129: Trauma and Pain

In the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa, we commit to all the manifestations of life through intensive meditation practice. In this talk, Reggie acknowledges that such a commitment is often quite challenging because somatic meditation practice brings us into direct relationship with our traumas and pain. It’s a warrior’s path. The fruition of which is a capacity to meet the full depth and breadth of our human incarnation.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 128: Being Genuine – Part II

This is the second part of the talk we began listening to last week on the importance of authenticity when teaching the dharma. Reggie reflects on lessons learned from his teacher, Chogyam Trungpa. Genuineness, he says, is an expression of one’s fundamental non-existence.

This talk was given at the 2012 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 127: Being Genuine – Part I

Today in the talk Being Genuine, Reggie warns of the dangers of using spiritual language, teachings, and forms to hide our humanity. He says that the dharma is not a commodity. To teach the true dharma, we must practice regularly, speak directly from personal experience, and show up as we are.

This talk was given at the 2012 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 126: Journey of Sacred Relationship

In today’s talk, Journey of Sacred Relationship, Reggie discusses the importance of the consort relationship in the vajrayana transmission of the practicing lineage. Consorts, he says, protect the openness of teaching spaces by interrupting attempts at securing territory. This groundlessness allows the lineage to come through.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 125: Non-Theism

In this talk, Non-Theism, Reggie discusses the non-theistic view of the spiritual journey. Theism, he says, is an approach to spirituality marked by an allegiance to ideas about purity, brightness, and heavenly perfection. Non-theism, on the other hand, celebrates the cycle life and death, euphoria and depression, clarity and confusion. It is an embrace of life in its totality.

This talk was given at a class Reggie taught in 2011 in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 124: Wisdom in Discomfort

In Wisdom in Discomfort, Reggie discusses the claustrophobia we feel when we commit to the tight confines of a retreat environment.  A good retreat, he says, is very uncomfortable from the standpoint of ego. There is wisdom in the discomfort: by not getting what we want, we are forced to drop our preoccupations and relax into what is.

This talk was given at the at the 2010 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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