Episode 98: Experience is Trustworthy

In this episode, Experience is Trustworthy, we explore the ground, path, and fruition of the Vajrayana journey. Reggie explains that the ground involves seeing the sacredness of reality, the path involves learning to trust experience, and the fruition is the wonder of revelation that occurs in each moment of life.

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

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Episode 97: Ultimate Positivity

In this talk, Ultimate Positivity, Reggie says that when we let go of our limited ideas about life, we encounter a vast and brilliant world – the vajra world – that communicates with us through unexpected signs. These signs invite us into the dance of reality, the joy of being, and the boundless love of our true nature.

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

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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 92: Way of the Bodhisattva

Way of the Bodhisattva: Today, Reggie discusses the deep and unalterable commitment we feel when our hearts open to suffering in the world. This commitment is formally expressed as the Bodhisattva Vow. It involves a path of training that connects us to the source of love over and over again.

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

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Episode 91: Journey of the Heart

Journey of the Heart: This week we’ll listen to a talk Reggie gave on the different stages of the bodhicitta practice of awakening the heart. He explains how our direct somatic experience of the heart unfolds as an ever increasing capacity to meet others with “unconditional, non-judgmental, all-accepting, infinite, unbiased love.”

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

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Episode 90: Awake Heart

In this talk, Awake Heart, Reggie discusses the two aspects of an awake heart: absolute bodhicitta and relative bodhicitta. Absolute bodhicitta is the limitless space of our hearts and relative bodhicitta refers to the warmth that arises from that space and is expressed as love.

This talk was given at the 2011 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 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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