DHARMA OCEAN AUDIO STORE

DHARMA OCEAN AUDIO STORE FEATURED DOWNLOADS

Below is a curated selection of talks from the Dharma Ocean Audio Archive that will build on the foundations and teachings at Dharma Ocean.

MEMBERS AUDIO ARCHIVE DOWNLOADS

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GROUND YANA DOWNLOADS

Here, we are learning to connect with our actual, embodied self, our Soma. Making this connection is the essential beginning point of the meditative journey because, in meditation, we must begin with who we are. In the Ground Yana, we learn how to enter into our own bodily incarnation, coming into direct knowledge of our lived experience. We find that the body is enormously spacious; alive with energy and wisdom. Spirituality involves opening the limited and enclosed world of ego and seeing the world as it is. The first thing we have to do begin to develop our somatic intuitive mind without the mediation of the thinker. The Ground Yana introduces the practices that bring us to the body’s intuitive, holistic knowledge.

MEDITATION YANA DOWNLOADS

Once we gain entry into the inner space of the Soma, we see the limitless possibilities of openness, awareness, and experience that reside there. Without meaning to, we tend to jump right back into our thinking mind, back into our disembodiment. In the Meditation Yana, through the practice of sitting meditation, we train our minds to be less reactive to thoughts. We cultivate and deepen the experience of pure awareness within our state of being. This is similar to “silent illumination” in Ch’an, Shikantaza ,“just sitting” in Zen, and “abiding in the natural state” in Mahamudra and Dzogchen, except that it is more somatic in nature.

YANA OF GREAT COMPASSION AUDIO DOWNLOADS

In the third yana we refine our embodiment and somatic awareness further by tapping into the subtle warmth, tenderness, and wisdom of the heart. Through embodied bodhicitta (or awakening heart) practices, we discover that the heart is the ultimate organ of wisdom and compassion within our Soma; it beholds all beings and life as they are, in and of themselves and from their own side. This is simply the heart’s natural way of regarding everything, once the veils of conceptual thinking are relinquished. We realize that to behold things from the view of the heart’s territory is to love them selflessly and unconditionally.

YANA OF SOMATIC DESCENT AUDIO DOWNLOADS

In the fourth yana we bring our meditative awareness fully into the density, energy, and eventfulness of our body. In this tantric approach to meditation, we begin to see that everything that bursts forth from the empty space of our basic Soma, “the natural state,” — the energy of radiant, expressive awareness. We return to “samsara” with new eyes, but beyond that, we begin to realize there never was a “samsara,” just the enlightened manifestations of our own awakened nature.

VAJRAYANA AUDIO DOWNLOADS

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In our journey to the complete embodiment of spiritual realization, we will find impediments and blockages. The most difficult of these obstacles are what we call “unresolved traumas.” These are unconscious emotional assumptions and beliefs about the nature of ourselves, others, and the world. These unconscious attitudes and beliefs, responses to overwhelmingly painful experiences, were laid down beginning from our earliest days, skewing our perceptions of everything. We are talking not only about the major incapacitating traumas that may be active in us, but also about the hundreds and perhaps thousands of insults to our person that were so painful that we could not fully process the experiences when they occurred. In the Vajrayana, we work directly with these obstructing patterns, bringing them to consciousness through the practice, and learning to fully inhabit the painful experiences, thus allowing them to resolve themselves. This Vajrayana trauma work releases huge amounts of energy; over time, we develop the capacity to open and make room for the vastness of life that is our human birthright.