Episode 210: Vajrayana Feast – Thanking the Lineage

In this episode, Vajrayana Feast – Thanking the Lineage, we listen to a talk Reggie offered at the close of a residential retreat intensive. He says that in the Vajrayana, we close retreats with a final banquet. It is a practice of making offerings to the ancestors, inviting the unseen world, and letting go into the “dark mysteries” of the lineage.

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 209: Transitioning to the Practice of Pure Awareness – Part II

In Transitioning to the Practice of Pure Awareness – Part II, Reggie discusses how the practice of pure awareness is the natural next step on the Dharma Ocean journey of somatic meditation after we have worked with and integrated the Awakening the Body practices.

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Episode 208: Transitioning to the Practice of Pure Awareness – Part I

In this talk from his upcoming online course, Transitioning to the Practice of Pure Awareness – Part I, Reggie describes how he will guide us in transitioning from our foundation training in the “ground yana” bodywork practices to the sitting posture of the somatic practice of pure awareness.

This excerpt is taken from Reggie’s online course called The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness: The Tantric Style of Embodied Meditation.

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Episode 207: Realm of the Inconceivable – Part III

In the final part of this talk on dark knowledge, Realm of the Inconceivable, Reggie says that in the tradition of the practicing lineage we understand that the body is the enlightened alaya—the primordial source of all experience. To trust the body, is to trust experience. No matter how surprising, painful, or inconceivable.

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 206: Realm of the Inconceivable – Part II

In the second part of this talk on the dark knowledge of the body, Realm of the Inconceivable, Reggie says that in the practicing lineage we learn how to rest with the soma and wait. What unfolds is a process of vertical transformation that fundamentally changes our existential state of being.

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 205: Realm of the Inconceivable – Part I

In Realm of the Inconceivable, Reggie discusses the conceptual maps that we use to overlay experience. Direct experience, he says, is found in the body. It is the gateway to the dark knowledge of the soma: the totality that is beyond thought.

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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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.

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Episode 204: The Bodhisattva Path – Part III

In the final part of this talk on the training of a bodhisattva, The Bodhisattva Path, Reggie offers instruction on how the practice of somatic descent shows us how to attend to the body when we are activated in a relationship. Through the discipline of waiting, our activation dissolves, and we see the way of love.

This talk was given at the 2014 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 203: The Bodhisattva Path – Part II

In The Bodhisattva Path, Reggie describes the second step in the training of a Bodhisattva: the practice of Vajrayana maitri. He says that the way we heal our relationships with sentient beings is through healing the injured beings within us.

This talk was given at the 2014 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 202: The Bodhisattva Path – Part I

In this episode, The Bodhisattva Path – Part I, we listen to the first part of a talk Reggie offered at a Bodhisattva vow ceremony. He says that the first step in the training of a bodhisattva involves slowing down and opening to the wounded aspects of ourselves that we have cut off and banished.

This talk was given at the 2014 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 201: The Living Water of Spirituality

Episode – The Living Water of Spirituality: Reggie offered this talk at the midway point in a month-long winter meditation retreat. He reminds the practitioners that meditation practice allows us to bring the living water of human spirituality into the dry desert of this suffering world.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the rocky mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 200: The Yogic Tradition of Somatic Meditation

In this episode, The Yogic Tradition of Somatic Meditation, Reggie asks us to relinquish Western conceptions of the body. He offers the view of the Vajrayana yogic tradition, in which the body is understood as not solid, but rather as an energetic expression of awareness.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathün retreat held in the rocky mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 199: Uncertainty

In Uncertainty, Reggie says that mind states are like rainbows, they are apparent, but empty. True freedom is discovered when we stop trying to pin things down. To demonstrate this, Reggie offers an account of how it was impossible to pin Chögyam Trungpa down.

This talk was given at the 2004 Winter Dathün retreat held in the rocky mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 198: Connecting with the Ancestors

In this talk, Connecting with the Ancestors, Reggie reflects on the liberating experience that occurred in the space of a Dathün retreat after an embodied connection was established with the local ancestors and indigenous spirits of the natural world.

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

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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.

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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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