This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
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In today’s episode, Reggie discusses the loss of control we feel when facing the uncertainty of life through the practice of meditation. Chaos, he says, is a sign that reality is trying to get through to us. When we heed the call and surrender our grasp, our lives flow open and free, and experience becomes our most trusted guide on the journey.
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In today’s talk, Reggie encourages us to trust the unique unfolding of our personal journey on the path of meditation. He says that the greatest gift we can offer ourselves, and others, is confidence in the sacredness of our specific life.
This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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Spiritual materialism is an approach to meditation in which we fixate on goals of perfection and try to secure a sense of accomplishment. In this talk, Reggie explains how the dance of reality always undermines such reference points and cuts through the momentum of our spiritual ambition.
This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon.
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Today, we conclude our month long exploration of the mahamudra tradition. In the following talk, Reggie discusses how mahamudra is being translated from Tibetan Buddhism to the modern world. He says that the appeal of this tradition is that it invites us to discover the depth of our spiritual life through direct experience.
This talk is from Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True. Reggie will teach a residential retreat based on these teachings March 22nd to the 30th in Crestone, CO.
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In today’s episode, Reggie talks about an aspect of experience that brings many people to the practice of meditation: unceasing thoughts. He says that the mahamudra tradition does not see thoughts as problematic. Rather, they are understood as primal expressions of energy.
This talk is from Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True. Reggie will teach a residential retreat based on these teachings March 22nd to the 30th in Crestone, CO.
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Today, we continue our exploration of the mahamudra tradition of meditation. In this talk, Reggie shows how the vast space of being that he discussed in last week’s podcast expresses itself as love, and how this love manifests as our unique life.
This talk is from Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True. Reggie will teach a residential retreat based on these teachings March 22nd to the 30th in Crestone, CO.
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In this episode, Reggie talks about the open, empty, clear awareness that is our fundamental nature. This great space of being, he says, is endless, unborn, and does not die. When we discover that this vast expanse of awareness is the source of our life, we feel free to express our unique creativity in the world.
This talk is from Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True. Reggie will teach a residential retreat based on these teachings March 22nd to the 30th in Crestone, CO.
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Today, we begin a four-week exploration of the mahamudra tradition of meditation – an ancient approach known for its remarkable simplicity and profundity. In this talk, Reggie discusses the way in which mahamudra meets our longing to connect with the vast space of reality.
This talk was given at last year’s Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat, held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. This year’s mahamudra retreat with Reggie is scheduled for March 22nd to the 30th.
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This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathün, a month-long retreat held in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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When working with a spiritual teacher, a community must consider how to carry on the lineage once the teacher dies. In this talk, Reggie says that the authentic lineage of Chögyam Trungpa will only survive into future generations if “integrity trumps strategy” and the individual journey of each student is held as inviolable.
This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün, a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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In this episode, Reggie discusses the continuation of Chögyam Trungpa’s lineage within Dharma Ocean. Instead of worshipping the lineage footsteps of the past, Reggie encourages us to make a relationship with the lineage as a living force that is communicating within us right now.
This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün, a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.
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This is a talk Reggie offered on the life and teachings of his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He discusses the Vajrayana foundations of Tibetan Buddhism, Trungpa’s early training as a Vajrayana master, and his unique expression of the dharma in the modern world.
This talk was given in 2011 as part of a class on the Sadhana of Mahamudra held in Boulder, CO. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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Today, we’ll listen to brief excerpts from an assortment of talks Reggie gave on the life and teachings of Jesus from a Buddhist perspective. He explains how Jesus was a contemplative prophet who exemplified non-theistic compassion through his rejection of religious materialism and embrace of the pain and suffering of this world. He says that Buddhists can learn important lessons from the story of Christ’s inner and outer journey: that true spiritual practice is not a way of escaping political society, but rather helps us develop the courage to speak honestly and straightforwardly to the confusion, injustice, and corruption of the samsaric world.
These excerpts are taken from a variety of Winter Dathun retreats. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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Winter solstice is a time of journeying inward, into the depths and darkness of our being. This podcast features excerpts from two talks Reggie gave on the importance of opening to darkness in spiritual practice. In the first excerpt, he explains how the difficult, ugly, and unwanted aspects of our experience hold tremendous richness and life. The second excerpt is from a winter solstice talk on the meaning of darkness as a cosmic phenomenon in the cycle of death and rebirth. Darkness, he says, is essential to spiritual awakening, because it is only when we let go into absolute emptiness that the universe can give birth to new light and new life.
These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2010 Winter Dathun and a 2009 Dharma Ocean Community Weekend.
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Today, Reggie discusses the narrow world of ego. We typically perceive the world beyond ego as shadows and darkness; however, when we enter the unknown depths of the body through the practice of meditation, we tap into the boundlessness of the universe. When we encounter this vast expanse, we can either take a risk and choose to open to it, or pretend that it does not exist, seeking a temporary sense of security in ignorance. Meditation shows us how to open with trust and gentleness and be with the full gamut of feelings that inevitably arise when we let go of our cherished versions of reality.
This talk was given at the 2007 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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What does the word enlightenment really mean? How does it define Buddhist cultural roles and perceptions? Is the spiritual ideal of enlightenment really that helpful to modern meditators? These are some of the questions Reggie poses in this talk on the importance of deconstructing the concept of enlightenment and critically examining its pervasive use in both ancient and modern expressions of Buddhism. He explains how his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa, jettisoned stereotypical ideas associated with the enlightened image of a Tibetan rinpoche. Instead, Trungpa showed that the true mark of realization in a teacher is a willingness to become ever more human and transparent in sharing one’s own individual process, journey, and emotions with students, communicating awakening through genuine responsiveness — not hierarchical authority.
This excerpt is from a talk given at the 2006 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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Buddhism is often seen as an organized Asian religion that is historically tied to entrenched power structures, authoritative texts, and definitive roles. In today’s episode, Reggie discusses the importance of giving up our ideas and preconceptions about the dharma and Buddhism. At this point in history, he says, many practitioners are called to take part in the unique unfolding of what the dharma is right now: a deeply creative process of questioning, discovery, and sharing. He encourages us to trust our own personal discoveries in meditation, and understand that our unique expression of the dharma is integral to the life of the sangha right now.
This excerpt is from a talk given at the 2010 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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The journey of meditation shows us how our ideas about everyday life are small, regimented, and suffocating. In this talk, Reggie explains that modern spirituality requires a certain bravery, a willingness to be dismantled by the raw reality of our humanity in the midst of everyday circumstances. It’s a journey that requires trust in the radical longing to open up our entire being in a completely undefended way. This approach to spirituality, he says, “is not for all people, but for the people it is for, there is a hunger to know what’s going on beyond reactivity, stories, and defensiveness. When we allow this hunger, then life becomes very interesting.”
This talk was given at a public program Reggie taught in Boulder, CO in 2011.
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Reggie discusses the ways meditation helps us shed habitual patterns so we can discover the true purpose of our life. The human journey, he says, is not about getting rid of our ego but rather connecting more deeply with our authentic person. Then the ego can help us on our path.
Today’s teachings are drawn from a talk hosted by members of the Crestone, Colorado community. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit our store.
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our store.“There is no such thing as absolute nothingness. We think that there might be — that’s our deepest fear. As a practitioner, you run into nothingness, but there’s something more, there’s something deeper. And that deeper thing is the warmth of infinity, the warmth of eternity. The warmth arises as a fire, and that fire is the life force. All of us are expressions of the life force and all living things are expressions of the life force. That’s what we are. We are the fundamental nature that expresses itself in the fire of being — all the mountains, all the rivers, all the stars in space — everything is alive and everything is aware. Everything has its own being. Everything sees. Everything experiences. We live in a universe that is utterly alive and sacred, and the journey of Vajrayana is to gradually, over time, disabuse ourselves of all the wrong ideas we have about reality.”
This podcast is an excerpt from a talk given at the 2010 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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In this episode, Reggie explains how meditating in an embodied way allows our lives to flow freely. We are used to thinking that we are never enough — that we are lacking in so many ways. The practice of meditation gives rise humor and joy, through the insight that our situation is actually always abundant and perfect just as is it is. The tantric approach of somatic meditation dismantles our doubt, frees us from the fetters of thinking, and allows us to receive the inherent blessing within each moment. We see how life is a river that flows through us, unencumbered and without boundary, as a profound expression of beauty and love.
This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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This week, Reggie reflects on the meaning of the first line of the Dharma Ocean aspiration chant: “May I develop an attitude of complete acceptance and openness to all situations, emotions, and to all people.” He explores this teaching in the context of Buddhist maitri practice, whereby we cultivate an attitude of loving-kindness toward ourselves. This practice leads to a greater sense of wholeness because it teaches us how to turn toward the full range of our human experience, not just the desirable aspects. “In the Tibetan tradition it is said that positive experiences are much more dangerous than negative ones, because the minute you identify with being a successful person all the other parts of you are immediately marginalized. It happens instantly — a whole universe in you goes into hiding.”
These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2010 and 2011 Winter Dathüns. Dathün is a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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In today’s podcast, Reggie shows how freedom is found when we refrain from judging our experience. By embracing some aspects of experience and shunning others, we drive the painful, difficult, and unwanted parts of our being into the shadows. These tormented and damaged parts continue to operate, but without our knowledge, as unconscious neurotic behaviors. By making room for and extending love toward all the different aspects of ourselves, we become whole in the fullest sense: everything that happens in our life can become free to uniquely flower in the endlessly abundant field of our experience.
These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2010 and 2011 Winter Dathüns. Dathün is a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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In today’s teaching, Reggie shows how the fundamental truth of the universe is discovered within the human heart. To trust in the heart means being willing to open to what we are feeling and explore the immediacy of life, no matter what we might think about it. This takes courage because it demands vulnerability and an unreasonable commitment to love the full breadth of our experience without judgment. He says that when we surrender our ideas about who we think we are and what we think our life should be, then we can begin to see that our heart is a jewel in Indra’s net: it reflects the full scope of the universe in its absolute splendor and beauty, and it shows us how we are interconnected with all beings throughout time and space.
This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathün — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to explore a variety of recorded talks and practices to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit our store.
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