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 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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Episode 74: Meditating with the Earth

In this episode, Meditating with the Earth, Reggie discusses the earth as an elemental reality that defies conceptuality. He explores several of the earth’s different aspects – it is the source of all life, our original mother, and connects us to the potent wildness inherent in all being.

These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2007 Meditating with the Body retreat and a public program held in Portland, Oregon in 2009.

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Episode 73: Inner Pilgrimage of the Body

In this episode, Inner Pilgrimage of the Body, Reggie discusses the importance of spiritual pilgrimage in Vajrayana meditation. He says that visiting sacred sites in the world reflects the tantric tradition of outer pilgrimage, and journeying through the sacred landscapes of the body is an expression of inner pilgrimage.

This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon.

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Episode 72: Bodywork in Daily Practice

In this teaching, Bodywork in Daily Practice, Reggie comments on the role of the body in daily meditation practice. He says that modern people often approach meditation as a means to get out of the body. But without an openness to pain, feelings, traumas and memories, there is no journey – we don’t grow.

This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon.

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Episode 71: The Body – Gateway to the Primordial

In today’s talk The Body – Gateway to the Primordial, Reggie explains how attitudes of subjugation, repression, and control in agricultural societies have led to a modern sense of profound separation from our bodies. He says that when we meditate with the body, we reclaim a primordial way of knowing the world.

This talk was given at the 2007 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 70: Meditating with the Body

Meditating with the Body is a course of practice and study that helps modern people reconnect with the reality, goodness, and health of our basic human situation, grounded in our bodies. In today’s episode, we listen to excerpts from four talks on the view of Meditating with the Body.

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

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Episode 69: Ground Yana – Awakening to Reality

In this episode Ground Yana – Awakening to Reality, we listen to a talk Reggie offered on the Ground Yana – the beginning stage of the meditative journey. He emphasizes the need to give up what we think about our life, and discusses the profound transformations that occur when we discover our inborn nature through embodied meditation.

This talk was given at the 2005 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, 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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Episode 68: How the Journey Unfolds

In today’s episode How the Journey Unfolds, Reggie discusses how the spiritual journey unfolds in relation to our experience of the awakened state. He says, “We begin the Five Yana journey with what is called sudden enlightenment – the experience of abrupt vastness.  But then you get triggered and you’re back in your ordinary neurosis. Or you get distracted and you’re back in your small mind. The journey of Mahamudra is to bring that vastness into every moment of our life.”

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, 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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Dharma Ocean Podcast Episode 66: Stages of the Embodied Journey – Part I

Episode: Stages of the Embodied Journey – Part I

Today’s podcast features the first part of a talk Reggie offered on the five stages of embodied meditation. What follows is a description of the first two stages of the journey: the Ground Yana and the Hinayana. He says, “Enlightenment is dropping conventional notions of the body. It’s not that you separate from the body, but you drop the limitations that you impose conceptually on your experience of the body – you discover your own body as the body of the Buddha.”

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, 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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Dharma Ocean Podcast Episode 65: The Journey of Mahamudra

In today’s episode The Journey of Mahamudra, Reggie discusses the different stages of the mahamudra journey. He says that stages do not mean accomplishment. Rather, they simply reflect how our experience of the totality deepens as the journey of meditation unfolds.

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, 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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Dharma Ocean Podcast Episode 64: Spiritual Unfolding

In today’s episode Spiritual Unfolding, Reggie offers an overview of the path of spiritual training that he was taught by his teacher, Chogyam Trungpa. He says that when we commit to the journey of spiritual unfolding our karmic situation changes and our life opens in new and unexpected ways.

This talk was given at the 2006 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO. 

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Episode 63: Trusting Individuality

In this talk, Trusting Individuality, Reggie explains how, in more conservative Buddhist cultures, individuality is often viewed as threatening to established rules and conventions. However, for modern practitioners these attitudes feel stifling. He says that sharing personal experience actually helps us unlock the spiritual journey.

This talk was given at the 2006 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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Episode 62: Loss of Control

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.

This talk was given at the 2005 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.

Episode 61: Human Journey

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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Episode 60: The Dance of Reality

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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Episode 59: Thirst for Direct Experience

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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Episode 58: Thoughts – Explosions of Energy

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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Episode 57: Space Gives Birth to Love

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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Episode 56: The Natural State

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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Episode 55: The Call of Mahamudra

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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Episode 54: The Knock at the Door

In today’s episode, Reggie reflects on the importance of expanding our awareness beyond our expectations, prejudices, ideas, and biases. When we open to boundless space in this way, we are extending an open-ended invitation to the universe, and many unexpected guests will show up at our door.

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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