This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon.
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This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon.
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This talk was given at the 2007 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO.
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These excerpts are taken from talks given at Winter Dathun and Meditating with the Body retreats held in Crestone, CO.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When working with a spiritual teacher, a community must consider how to carry on the lineage once the teacher dies. In this talk, Reggie says that the authentic lineage of Chögyam Trungpa will only survive into future generations if “integrity trumps strategy” and the individual journey of each student is held as inviolable.
This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün, a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center 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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In this episode, Reggie discusses the continuation of Chögyam Trungpa’s lineage within Dharma Ocean. Instead of worshipping the lineage footsteps of the past, Reggie encourages us to make a relationship with the lineage as a living force that is communicating within us right now.
This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün, a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.
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This is a talk Reggie offered on the life and teachings of his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He discusses the Vajrayana foundations of Tibetan Buddhism, Trungpa’s early training as a Vajrayana master, and his unique expression of the dharma in the modern world.
This talk was given in 2011 as part of a class on the Sadhana of Mahamudra held in Boulder, 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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Today, we’ll listen to brief excerpts from an assortment of talks Reggie gave on the life and teachings of Jesus from a Buddhist perspective. He explains how Jesus was a contemplative prophet who exemplified non-theistic compassion through his rejection of religious materialism and embrace of the pain and suffering of this world. He says that Buddhists can learn important lessons from the story of Christ’s inner and outer journey: that true spiritual practice is not a way of escaping political society, but rather helps us develop the courage to speak honestly and straightforwardly to the confusion, injustice, and corruption of the samsaric world.
These excerpts are taken from a variety of Winter Dathun retreats. 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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Winter solstice is a time of journeying inward, into the depths and darkness of our being. This podcast features excerpts from two talks Reggie gave on the importance of opening to darkness in spiritual practice. In the first excerpt, he explains how the difficult, ugly, and unwanted aspects of our experience hold tremendous richness and life. The second excerpt is from a winter solstice talk on the meaning of darkness as a cosmic phenomenon in the cycle of death and rebirth. Darkness, he says, is essential to spiritual awakening, because it is only when we let go into absolute emptiness that the universe can give birth to new light and new life.
These excerpts are taken from talks given at the 2010 Winter Dathun and a 2009 Dharma Ocean Community Weekend.
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