Episode 124: Wisdom in Discomfort

In Wisdom in Discomfort, Reggie discusses the claustrophobia we feel when we commit to the tight confines of a retreat environment.  A good retreat, he says, is very uncomfortable from the standpoint of ego. There is wisdom in the discomfort: by not getting what we want, we are forced to drop our preoccupations and relax into what is.

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

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Episode 123: Consort Relationship – Part II

The Vajrayana tradition of spirituality views the consort relationship is as a skillful gateway to non-dual awakening. In this talk, Consort Relationship Part II, Reggie discusses the consort journey. He says that consorts help liberate one another from fixed points of view by continually challenging each other’s versions of reality.

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

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Episode 122: Consort Relationship – Part I

The Vajrayana tradition of spirituality views the consort relationship as a skillful gateway to non-dual awakening. In this talk, Consort Relationship – Part I, Reggie discusses the consort journey. He says that consorts help liberate one another from fixed points of view by continually challenging each other’s versions of reality.

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

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Episode 121: Born for Joy

Spiritual materialism is an approach to meditation in which we fixate on goals and perfection, and try to secure a sense of accomplishment. In this talk, Born for Joy, Reggie challenges this notion. He says that true spirituality is actually a journey into the grittiness of our humanity.

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

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Episode 120: An Equal Footing

In today’s talk, An Equal Footing, Reggie says that true spiritual empowerment happens when we surrender to the raw expressive force of our unique incarnation. Doing this requires that we let go of unhelpful ideas about spiritual hierarchy and trust the natural process of awakening to our true nature.

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

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Episode 119: Recovering the Primordial – Part II

This episode features the second part of a talk that Reggie offered at a weekend retreat in Boulder entitled African and Tibetan Approaches to Working with the Elements.  Here, Reggie discusses the way in which the somatic meditation practices of Vajrayana Buddhism help us to connect with the elemental reality of the universe.

This talk was given in 2008.

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Episode 118: Recovering the Primordial – Part I

Today’s talk is from a weekend retreat Reggie co-led with his spiritual brother, the Dagara shaman, Malidoma Somé. In Recovering the Primordial, Reggie draws upon his training as a religious historian to discuss the alienating movement away from earth based spirituality in the development of the so-called high religions of agricultural civilizations.

This talk was given in 2008 at a weekend retreat in Boulder called African and Tibetan Approaches to Working with the Elements.

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Episode 117: Spirituality is Not a Spectator Sport

In this episode, Spirituality is Not a Spectator Sport, Reggie discusses embodiment on the spiritual journey. He says that oftentimes we approach meditation as spectators – always a step removed from direct experience. Embodied meditation, however, invites us to enter the full action of our lives.

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

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Episode 116: Dismemberment

Following last week’s episode on the deception of ego, in today’s talk Reggie uses Vajrayana imagery to describe the process of ego dismemberment that unfolds through the practice of meditation. He says that such experiences are part of the initiatory process in becoming who we are.

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

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Episode 115: Beyond Ego

Reggie begins this talk, Beyond Ego, by saying, “The view of ego is a personal, solid, sense of self that we have to maintain at all costs.” He discusses how the view of ego is reflected in the rampant materialism of the modern world, and explains how ritual can help us transcend the trap of ego.

This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 114: Beyond Religion

In this talk, Beyond Religion, Reggie addresses the topic of religiosity in Buddhism. He says that ritual forms are problematic when seen as separate and external from our inner being, but can be helpful when related to as an expression of our enlightened nature.

This talk was given at the 2005 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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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