The Forest Dwelling Yogi
Interview with the Buddhist Geeks
Touching Enlightenment
Tricycle, Spring 2006
After years of meditation, you may feel you’re making very little progress. But the guide you may need has been with you all along: your body. Drawing on Tibetan Yogic practices, Reggie Ray takes on the modern crisis of disembodiment.
The Awakened State
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge, June 2012
In this episode, Tami Simon from Sounds True speaks with Reggie about the possibility of using modern methods for capturing the essence of student-to-teacher transmission, how glimpsing the awakened state fits in with Mahamudra training, and the “three teachers”—a human teacher, the natural state, and life itself. (65 minutes)
Health, Wellbeing and Meditation
Reggie Ray interviewed on Dynamic Health Radio.
Finding Realization in the Body
conscious.tv, June 2015
Reggie discusses somatic meditation with Renate McNay of conscious.tv in London, UK.
In a word, Dharma
Lion’s Roar, December 26, 2017
What is Dharma? According to Reginald A. Ray, dharma is a fascinating term because it integrates several levels of experience, from our first moment on the path to the achievement of full realization.
Embodiment and Earth Energy
Alart, host of Dynamic Health, interviews Reggie on Vancouver’s CFRO 102.7 FM.
- Embodiment and Earth Energy Reggie Ray 55:21
- Embodying Enlightenment Reggie Ray 37:14
Hard Questions
Interview with Reggie Ray
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge, August 2009
In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon—who is a student of Reggie—poses a series of challenging and difficult questions to her instructor.
Dark Retreat
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge, November 2010
Reggie discusses his recent experiences in dark retreat as well as the true goal of meditation and Reggie’s view of the meaning of spiritual practice. (51 minutes)
Busyness is Laziness
Elephant Magazine, September 2008
The life that we have in our mind, the life that is a reflection of our planning, the life that has been constructed out of bits and pieces in our environment—external conditioning, things we have observed in other people, things that influential people have told us—is actually not who we are.
And Sparks will Fly
Elephant Magazine, Winter 2006
Dr. Reggie Ray is one of the first examples of an historical synthesis: the wisdom of the East and the technological know-how of the West. That’s not just hype: until 1959, when the Reds rolled through Tibet, Buddhism was something you read about in National Geographic. Then, suddenly, in a diaspora equal to the genocide that caused it, 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom found itself forcibly exported across the snowy Himalayas. Chögyam Trungpa was perhaps foremost among these Tibetan gurus—leaving behind his monk’s robes for suits & sake, he put his ancient tradition into terms accessible and relevant to a new America. Among his first students was a young, precocious scholar by the name of Reggie Ray. 30 years later, Dr. Ray is an Acharya—an honorific similar to ‘Master’ or ‘Roshi’—and, with Pema Chödron, one of the best in the West at communicating the everyday profundity of the East.
The Three Lineages
Lion’s Roar, December 2005
Inspiration, innovation, institution—Reginald A. Ray looks at the different manifestations of lineage and how they maintain their awakened quality.
Playing with Fire
Dharma Life, Winter/Spring 2005
Tibetan Buddhism contains many teachings about the subtle energies of the body that are focused on the chakras or energy centres. Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditation teacher Reginald Ray told Dharma Life about the dangers of meditating on the chakras.
Three in One: A Buddhist Trinity
Lion’s Roar, September 2004
The “three bodies of the Buddha” may seem like a remote construct, says Reginald Ray, but they are the ground of existence and present in every moment of our experience.
How to Study the Dharma
Lion’s Roar, May 2004
In Buddhism, an ever-deepening understanding unfolds naturally from intellectual study. This process is classically expressed in the teaching of the three prajnas, or kinds of knowledge—hearing, contemplating and meditating.
Good Cause
Lion’s Roar, March 2004
“When we understand how our mind works, the practice becomes easy.” Reginald A. Ray discusses the close connection between Buddhist philosophy and practice.\n\nReginald A. Ray discusses the close connection between Buddhist philosophy and practice.
“When we understand how our mind works, the practice becomes easy.” Reginald A. Ray discusses the close connection between Buddhist philosophy and practice.
Books that Burn
The Practice and Philosophy of the Buddhist Path
Lion’s Roar, January 2004
According to Reginald Ray, Buddhist philosophy and practice can’t be separated. Once you understand, through study, what the Buddha is saying about his own awakening, you are already within the fiery process of the path.
According to Reginald Ray, Buddhist philosophy and practice can’t be separated. Once you understand, through study, what the Buddha is saying about his own awakening, you are already within the fiery process of the path.
That Problematic “Self”
Lion’s Roar, November 2003
“Self” is a purely conceptual construction says Dr. Reginald A. Ray in his fourth and final article exploring the “self.” He says, “What makes one’s ‘self’ so problematic is its degree of isolation from our actual experience, its rigidity and dissonance with reality beyond itself.”
Deconstructing the ”Self”
Lion’s Roar, September 2003
If the “self” is ultimately nothing more than a figment of our imagination, what is this figment like and how does it come to seem so real? In the third of four posts on the self, Dr. Reginald “Reggie” Ray breaks it down.
Why Me?
Lion’s Roar, July 2003
In the second of a four-part series on the definition of “self” in Buddhist teaching, Dr. Reginald (Reggie) Ray asks: If the “self” is ultimately fictitious, how and why does it come to be at all?
Who, Me?
Lion’s Roar, May 2003
In the first of a four-part series on the definition of self Dr. Reginald (Reggie) Ray explains how Buddhism describes several kinds of ‘self’ and ‘not-self,’ each of which has its role to play in our spiritual life.
Blood, Bone, Space and Light
Lion’s Roar, March 2003
Reginald Ray talks about the four foundations of mindfulness, and how, when we look closely into our bodies, we find nothing but space, drenched in sunlight.
To Touch Enlightenment with the Body
Lion’s Roar, January 2003
In the second of a three-part series on Buddhism and the body, Reginald Ray talks about how the body is not just the pathway to realization but the embodiment of enlightenment itself.
Kobun Chino’s Trailer
Lion’s Roar, November 2002
Reginald Ray writes a remembrance of Zen master and famed calligrapher Kobun Chino Roshi, who died tragically with his young daughter in July, 2002.
The Floating Heads
Lion’s Roar, September 2002
Many Western Budddhists, says Reginald Ray, perpetuate the mind/body, secular/sacred dualism that has marked our culture since early Christianity.
