Today’s teaching, Meditation and the Path of Healing, expands on the previous podcast’s theme of the importance of healing on the spiritual journey. Reggie shows how healing begins when we open to our deepest pain and trauma. Surrendering to the reality of our lives, painful though it may sometimes be, is how we transmute our suffering and discover unconditional freedom.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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In this talk, Healing, Wholeness, and Compassion, Reggie shows how the human journey of spirituality involves three aspects: healing, wholeness, and compassion. He explains that in order to progress in our meditation practice we must look at our overall health and work to resolve our pain and traumas in an integrative way. This work, he says, is also how we heal the earth.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.

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In Refuge in the Sangha, as we finish our exploration of the meaning of Refuge, Reggie discusses the intimacy we share with one another in retreat and how that intimacy gives rise to a sense of profound devotion to our community of fellow practitioners.

These excerpts were taken from two different talks given at the 2003 and 2006 Winter Dathuns in Crestone, Colorado. 

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Today’s talk, Refuge in the Dharma, is a continuation of last week’s topic: the role of refuge on the Buddhist path. In this episode Reggie discusses refuge in the Dharma. He shows how our understanding of the meaning of dharma deepens in profound ways as we grow in the different stages of the journey.

This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathun, a month-long retreat held at the White Eagle Conference Center in Crestone, Colorado.

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What does it mean to take refuge in the Buddha? In this episode, Reggie explores this question from the standpoint of the outer, inner, and secret dimensions of the Buddhist journey. He explains that fundamentally the Buddha is the very essence of our being — the very source of our life.

This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathun, a month-long retreat held at the White Eagle in Crestone, Colorado. 

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Refuge is an important moment in the Buddhist journey. It is a ritual event in which we have the opportunity to commit to the practice of meditation as a spiritual path. In today’s talk, Reggie discusses how in taking refuge we learn to abandon distractions and leap to the choicelessness of each moment.

This talk was originally given at the 2011 Winter Dathun — a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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This week’s episode features three talks originally recorded at Dharma Ocean community weekends in Boulder, Colorado.

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Renunciation is an important topic in the traditional teachings of the Buddha, and is commonly misunderstood. In today’s talk, Reggie explains that renunciation is not about turning away from our relative lives, but instead is a natural outgrowth of meditation practice. Renunciation spontaneously occurs when we stop following our habitual impulses and expectations in everyday life and connect with what is called in the Zen tradition “our true life.”

This week’s episode, View of Renunciation, features a talk originally recorded at the 2005-06 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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In Relating to Groundlessness, Reggie addresses the experience of groundlessness that often occurs when we engage in intensive meditation practice. He explains how we can trust those moments when we lose our sense of identity and encourages us to open to the uncertainty we feel when we encounter the limitless domain of our being.

This week’s episode features a segment of a talk given at the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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In this week’s episode, Journey of Authentic Becoming, Reggie expands on the topic of Buddha Nature offered in last week’s podcast. When we are able to surrender into our own basic nature, we begin to uncover our unique authentic person. Through the practice of meditation, we discover that the imperative of our spiritual journey is to become fully who we are, without reservation.

This talk was taken from a longer teaching Reggie gave at the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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Reggie discusses the unique spiritual imperative facing modern people and in particular the state of disconnection that is prevalent in modern society. He explores how invaluable the Buddhist-inspired journey is at this time and how we can discover our own Buddha Nature afresh in each moment through the felt sense of our embodied experience. Wisdom, he offers, “is contained within every cell of our body.”

This episode features a segment of a talk recorded at the April 2009 Meditating with the Body Retreat at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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Over the last fifteen years, drawing on Tibetan yoga, Reggie has developed a unique system of practices called Meditating with the Body. In this episode Reggie offers an introduction to the view of the body in Vajrayana Buddhism. He discusses the importance of the practice of meditation and the particular role of the body in meditation. Reggie explores how in the Vajrayana, the body is understood as the gateway through which the entire universe is discovered.

Episode 2 features a teaching originally recorded during the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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Reggie explores Buddhist tantra as a spiritual path and discusses inspiration in the practice of meditation. He offers guidance for how we develop trust in the magic and perfection of our lives and explores how the practice of meditation is about dismantling our doubt.

This episode features a talk originally recorded during the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. 

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