Blood, Bone, Space and Light
Lion’s Roar, March 2003
Reginald Ray talks about the four foundations of mindfulness, and how, when we look closely into our bodies, we find nothing but space, drenched in sunlight.
To Touch Enlightenment with the Body
Lion’s Roar, January 2003
In the second of a three-part series on Buddhism and the body, Reginald Ray talks about how the body is not just the pathway to realization but the embodiment of enlightenment itself.
Kobun Chino’s Trailer
Lion’s Roar, November 2002
Reginald Ray writes a remembrance of Zen master and famed calligrapher Kobun Chino Roshi, who died tragically with his young daughter in July, 2002.
The Red Coat and the Teaching of Impermanence
Lion’s Roar, July 2002
“Only when I realized that our time together was limited was the veil stripped away. In that moment, I discovered a love for her that had nothing to do with my own preconceptions.” – Reginald A. Ray
Waiting. Waiting. For What?
Lion’s Roar, May 2002
Meditation is often considered a self-contained activity, different from our actual life. More accurately, meditation is training for life. But most profoundly, meditation is life itself—not just any life, but our own most intimate and secret life. Meditation discloses our truest life process, its incomparable awareness, energy and movement. In fact, sitting on the meditation cushion, we can be living far more fully and profoundly than at any other time.
The Practice of Karma
Lion’s Roar, March 2002
Reginald A. Ray on how T’hrinlay Wangmo transformed an horrific incident into a situation of blessing through her understanding of karma.
Understanding Karma
Lion’s Roar, January 2001
Everything we do affects the future in ever-widening ripples of cause and effect. If our actions are virtuous, then the karmic results will be positive, whereas if our actions are unvirtuous, the results will be negative.
Hold the Grief of the World
Reginald Ray, Shambhala Mountain Center, Sept 15-17, 2001
It is very easy to become confused in this world and think that either things are hopeless or that they are okay. We can be distracted for days or even weeks and months at a time, and forget about working on ourselves at all. Then something like September 11 suddenly happens, and you realize that life could end at any second for any of us.
Religion Without God
Lion’s Roar, July 2001
What does it mean to be a religion without a God? More broadly, what does it mean to live without an exterior savior of any kind?
On the Importance of Relating to Unseen Beings
Lion’s Roar, January 2001
While Westerners have tended to view unseen beings as superstition or mere symbolism, Reginald Ray argues that communication with unseen beings through ritual is at the very heart of tantric Buddhist practice.
What is Tibetan Buddhism?
Shambhala Publications, 2006
In Tibet, Buddhism provided the basis of a unique civilization. It offered a vision of a meaningful life, an ethical system that enjoined decency and humanity, a profound philosophical tradition, and a comprehensive spiritual path. The expressions of Buddhism in Tibet could be found everywhere-in the devotion of virtually all Tibetans for their religion; in the multitude of small and large monasteries scattered throughout the country; in the shrines located in every home, monastery, and retreat cell; in the rituals that shaped and guided everyone’s life; in the ever- present color and vividness of Tibetan painting, sculpture, music, dance, and theater; and even in the government organization and its operation.
– Reggie Ray
