Episode 88: Embodiment of Love

In this episode, Embodiment of Love, Reggie discusses sitting meditation in context of the Mahayana stage of the journey. He says that our attention naturally shifts from the space in the lower belly to the space in the heart center. As our hearts awaken, we become more empathetic and begin to see relationships with greater clarity.

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

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Episode 87: Meeting Suffering with Compassion

In this talk, Meeting Suffering with Compassion, Reggie explains how the suffering we encounter in others serves as an invitation to grow beyond our trivial attempts at territoriality. Doing this requires a deep commitment to practice and a willingness to dismantle the blockages that distort our relationships with the world.

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

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Episode 86: The Mahayana Journey

In this episode, The Mahayana Journey, we listen to excerpts from talks Reggie has given on the Mahayana stage of the meditative journey. He discusses how we awaken to the vast suffering of the world, and respond to the call in our hearts to meet this suffering with love.

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

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Episode 85: Inspiration in Sadness

In this talk, Inspiration in Sadness, Reggie explores how human sadness points to a fundamental sense of disconnection from the totality. Sadness, he says, illuminates our longing to release the veils of ignorance and unite with the limitless space of being. It brings us to the cushion.

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

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Episode 84: The Three Lords of Materialism

Chogyam Trungpa described The Three Lords of Materialism as the way ego apes spiritual practice as a means to fortify barriers against the world. In this talk, Reggie discusses how the Lord of Form, the Lord of Speech, and the Lord of Mind obstruct the journey of meditation.

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

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Episode 83: The Joy of Chaos

Meditation is sometimes viewed as a means to control experience and keep emotions in check. In this talk, Reggie challenges that notion. He shows how meditation actually helps us surrender control, open to chaos, and relax into the messiness of life.

Episode: The Joy of Chaos

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

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Episode 82: Renunciation

In this episode, Renunciation, Reggie looks at how the practice of sitting meditation is an expression of renunciation. He says that it helps us see all the ways we avoid reality. At first, the process of relinquishing our attachment to distractions leads to a sense of barren non-existence. But this nothingness is the gateway to the totality.

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

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Episode 81: Just Sitting

Episode: Just Sitting

Shikantaza is the discipline of just sitting. In this talk, Reggie explains how the posture of Shikantaza helps us renounce our impulsivity so that we can open to the immediacy of the body. Through this discipline of “doing nothing,” the natural state of our being emerges, pure and unencumbered.

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

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Episode 80: Being with Pain

Episode: Being with Pain

Reggie begins this talk by encouraging us to not run away from pain in meditation practice. He says that the experience of pain interrupts two main ego defaults in modern society: comfort and distraction. Pain wakes us up, corners our ego, and helps us deepen in our commitment to what is.

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

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Episode 79: Discipline, Meditation, Understanding

Episode: Discipline, Meditation, Understanding

Shila, samadhi, and prajna translate as discipline, meditation, and understanding. In this talk, Reggie discusses how these three aspects are central to the practice of sitting meditation and how they help us commit to the gritty realities of our spiritual lives.

These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 78: Loss of Reference Points

In this episode, Loss of Reference Points, we listen to different teachings Reggie has given on the foundations of Hinayana practice. He says that the first step in discovering who we truly are involves letting go of our coherent sense of self and opening to uncertainty when reference points fall away.

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

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Episode 77: The Hinayana Stage of the Journey

Episode; The Hinayana Stage of the Journey

Today, we explore teachings Reggie has given on the Hinayana stage of the meditative journey. He discusses the importance of committing to a daily meditation practice, renouncing habitual patterns, and developing kindness toward oneself.

These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2005 and 2010 Winter Dathun retreats held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 76: Vajra Body

“Vajra body” refers to the indestructible energetic body that is discovered when we explore our incarnation in a non-conceptual way. In today’s episode, Reggie discusses the dynamics of the Vajra body and how it lives independently of our hopes, fears, agendas, and identities.

This talk was given at the 2010 Winter Dathun – a month-long retreat retreat held a the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 75: Opening to the Totality

In this talk, Opening to the Totality, Reggie points to the fruition of embodied meditation – our minds become silent in face of the totality and the wildness of our inner being emerges free and unencumbered. Through this process, he says, we we change in unexpected ways because reality is not tidy, and life is not coherent.

This talk was given at the 2007 Meditating with the Body 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 67: Stages of the Embodied Journey – Part II

In this episode Stages of the Embodied Journey – Part II, we listen to the second part of a talk Reggie gave on the stages of embodied meditation. Here he covers the Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Fifth Yana. He says that Mahayana practices of the heart awaken tenderness and love. Vajrayana practices meet our inspiration to become “a spontaneous expression of nature.” And, in the Fifth Yana, we let go of a spiritual path altogether.

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 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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