Episode 113: Unconventional Logic

Trungpa Rinpoche taught that there are two orders of logic in the universe: the conventional rationality of ego, and the principle of chaos. In this talk, Unconventional Logic, Reggie explains how the job of the vajrayana teacher is to communicate the principle of chaos.

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

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Episode 112: Life and Death

In today’s talk, Life and Death, Reggie discusses the karmic cycle of birth, existence, death, and rebirth. He says that by learning to open to karmic cycles in the situations of our lives, we can relinquish our resistance to change, and allow life to emerge free and unencumbered.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 110: Dissolution

In today’s episode, Dissolution, we hear Reggie’s instruction to a group of practitioners who are coming to the end of a meditation retreat. Such transitions, he says, are opportunities to discover our inherent dignity in the face of death, dissolution, and rebirth.

These excerpts are from talks given at the 2002 Winter Dathun retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 109: Continuity

In this episode, Continuity, we listen to remarks Reggie offered during the first staff meeting at the Meditating with the Body Teacher Training that was held last week at Blazing Mountain Retreat Center. He explains that tantra is the energetic continuity that lies beneath our habitual ideas and concepts about our lives, and that Vajrayana practitioners are people who are interested in immersing themselves in this continuity. Somatic Descent is offered as a practice that connects us to tantric reality.

These remarks were offered to the staff of the 2015 Teacher Training program held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 108: Eternity in Ordinary Life

In this talk, Eternity in Ordinary Life, Reggie discusses the experience of fruition on the path of meditation. He says that at a certain point the spiritual identity falls away completely and eternity communicates through each moment of ordinary life. It is basic being – we are completely aligned with the karmic situation of our unique incarnation.

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 107: Naked to the World

In this episode, Naked to the World, Reggie discusses the fullest expression of being human. It means being completely naked to our world and seeing that each moment and situation of our life is a constant expression of wisdom.

These excerpts are from talks given at the 2006 Advanced Meditating with the Body and 2013 Winter Dathun retreats held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 106: Letting Go

In this episode, Letting Go, Reggie discusses the need to eventually relieve ourselves of the notion of a spiritual path altogether. While the path of meditation is essential to deepening and maturing as human beings, at a certain point, we realize that we need to drop even the reference point of our spiritual identity.

These excerpts are from talks given at the 2005 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 104: Transmuting Poison

In this episode, Transmuting Poison, we listen to a talk Reggie offered on how to work with obstructive states of mind. He says that the Vajrayana approach of working with difficult emotions is likened to a mythical peacock transmuting poison: we make a direct relationship with the defiling emotion and free inherent wisdom within the energy.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True.

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Episode 103: Genuine Intimacy

In Genuine Intimacy, Reggie addresses the importance of integrity in the transmission of a Vajrayana lineage. He explains that genuine spirituality in the Vajrayana tradition requires a personal relationship with a teacher, participation in a community, and an ongoing commitment to practice.

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 102: Decivilizing the Vajrayana Part II

In Decivilizing the Vajrayana Part II, we listen to the second part of a talk Reggie gave on the radical roots of Vajrayana practice. He explains how Vajrayana Buddhism was originally a wild spirituality that was practiced in jungles, but is now a largely abstract and domesticated religion. Our challenge, he says, is to recover the authentic primordiality of the tradition.

This talk was given at the 2007 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 101: Decivilizing the Vajrayana Part I

In Decivilizing the Vajrayana Part I, we listen to the first part of a talk Reggie gave on the radical roots of Vajrayana practice. He explains how Vajrayana Buddhism was originally a wild spirituality that was practiced in jungles, but is now a largely abstract and domesticated religion. Our challenge, he says, is to recover the authentic primordiality of the tradition.

This talk was given at the 2007 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 100: Wisdom Energies

In today’s episode, Wisdom Energies, Reggie discusses how space gives birth to warmth and how warmth is expressed as the selfless wisdom energies of the vajra body. By opening to these energies without agenda, conception, or manipulation, we discover the empty play of unborn awareness as an experience of embodiment.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True,.

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Episode 99: Empowerment

In this talk, Empowerment, Reggie looks at the Vajarayana lineage of empowerment. He says that empowerment occurs when the student experiences limitless freedom, love for what is, and the inherent beauty of life. The job of a Vajrayana teacher is to create situations in which empowerment can occur.

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

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Episode 98: Experience is Trustworthy

In this episode, Experience is Trustworthy, we explore the ground, path, and fruition of the Vajrayana journey. Reggie explains that the ground involves seeing the sacredness of reality, the path involves learning to trust experience, and the fruition is the wonder of revelation that occurs in each moment of life.

This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 97: Ultimate Positivity

In this talk, Ultimate Positivity, Reggie says that when we let go of our limited ideas about life, we encounter a vast and brilliant world – the vajra world – that communicates with us through unexpected signs. These signs invite us into the dance of reality, the joy of being, and the boundless love of our true nature.

This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 96: Fearlessness

In today’s episode, Fearlessness, we listen to an excerpt from a talk Reggie gave on the topic of fearlessness in the Vajrayana tradition of spiritual transformation. Fearlessness, he says, does not mean being without fear. Rather, it’s the willingness to open to fear and experience the messy parts of life that we normally reject and relegate to the periphery of our awareness.

This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat in Boulder, CO.

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Episode 95: The Vajrayana Stage of the Journey

The Vajrayana Stage of the Journey: Today we listen to excerpts from talks Reggie has given on the Vajrayana stage of the meditative journey. He says that Vajrayana practice involves a shocking process of dismantling the territory of ego, and we become very naked, stripped down, and open.

These excerpts are taken from talks given at a variety of public retreats held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 94: Enlightened Action

In this talk, Enlightened Action, Reggie looks at how the Mahayana training of the Bodhisattva transitions to the Vajrayana stage of the journey. He says that inborn wisdom naturally emerges in our state of being when we engage in helping beings. At a certain point, this wisdom compels us to let go further and meet the sacredness of all reality.

This talk was given at the 2005 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 93: Three Commitments of a Bodhisattva

In this episode, Three Commitments of a Bodhisattva, we listen to a talk Reggie offered on the three commitments of a bodhisattva. The three commitments are: caring for our life, caring for beings, and caring for the world. He says that these commitments help us expand beyond our tendencies toward self-preservation so that we can be more authentic in our service to the world.

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

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Episode 92: Way of the Bodhisattva

Way of the Bodhisattva: Today, Reggie discusses the deep and unalterable commitment we feel when our hearts open to suffering in the world. This commitment is formally expressed as the Bodhisattva Vow. It involves a path of training that connects us to the source of love over and over again.

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

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Episode 91: Journey of the Heart

Journey of the Heart: This week we’ll listen to a talk Reggie gave on the different stages of the bodhicitta practice of awakening the heart. He explains how our direct somatic experience of the heart unfolds as an ever increasing capacity to meet others with “unconditional, non-judgmental, all-accepting, infinite, unbiased love.”

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

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Episode 90: Awake Heart

In this talk, Awake Heart, Reggie discusses the two aspects of an awake heart: absolute bodhicitta and relative bodhicitta. Absolute bodhicitta is the limitless space of our hearts and relative bodhicitta refers to the warmth that arises from that space and is expressed as love.

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

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Episode 89: Dark Knowledge

In today’s episode, Dark Knowledge, Reggie talks about dark knowledge – the intelligence of the body that communicates to us from the periphery of conscious awareness. He explains that every cell of the body holds this knowledge, but it only becomes accessible to us through our hearts.

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

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