Episode 137: Loving Kindness – Part II

This week we listen to the second part of Reggie’s talk on cultivating gentleness and openness toward all aspects of life through the practice of maitri. Loving-kindness, he says, begins with ourselves: we establish a ground of trust, simplify our lives, sit with experience, and don’t judge anything.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 136: Loving Kindness – Part I

In this talk, Loving Kindness – Part I, Reggie addresses the pervasive culture of self-hatred that drives aggression and the forces of destruction in our world. He says that when we meditate with a heart of loving-kindness, our defenses soften and we discover an experience of space that is free from the distortions of self-aggression.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 135: Guests for Tea – Part II

Today we listen to the second part of Reggie’s talk on the practice of developing loving-kindness for the difficult and unwanted aspects of life, Guests for Tea. He says that when we stop judging ourselves, open to the wisdom of our emotions, and honor the upwelling of the life force within us, there is an opportunity to discover the inherent sacredness of our unique incarnation.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 134: Guests for Tea – Part I

In today’s episode, Guests for Tea, Reggie discusses the ways we hold our lives hostage through judgment, self-criticism, and perfectionism. Maitri, he says, employs the inherent power of loving-kindness to naturally shift self-aggressive tendencies. It is a practice that helps us open to the unwanted guests knocking at the door.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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Episode 133: The Indian Siddhas – Part II

Today we listen to the second part of Reggie’s talk on the mahasiddhas of ancient India. The spiritual journey of the siddha Naropa, he says, demonstrates the inherent risk associated with the practice of Buddhist tantra: the grittiness of reality challenges our most cherished ideas about spiritual attainment and invites us to meet the outrageous and unbelievable expressions of life.

This talk is from Buddhist Tantra, an audio course produced by Sounds True. Reggie’s audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity, was recently published by Sounds True.

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Episode 132: The Indian Siddhas – Part I

In this talk, The Indian Siddhas, Reggie discusses the mahasiddhas of ancient India: ordinary people who attained realization in the midst of everyday life. Their example, he says, reminds us of how spiritual transformation occurs within the exact circumstances of our unique lives.

This talk is from Buddhist Tantra, an audio course produced by Sounds True. Reggie’s audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity, was recently published by Sounds True.

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Episode 130: Pure Awareness

In today’s talk, Pure Awareness, Reggie discusses the importance of posture in the practice of pure awareness, and addresses recent historical scholarship regarding the contributions of Chan Buddhism in the development of Mahamudra practice in Tibet. These discoveries, he says, demonstrate the flexible dynamism and open-endedness of the Mahamudra tradition.

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held in Crestone, CO. Reggie’s audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity, was recently published by Sounds True.

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Episode 129: Trauma and Pain

In the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa, we commit to all the manifestations of life through intensive meditation practice. In this talk, Reggie acknowledges that such a commitment is often quite challenging because somatic meditation practice brings us into direct relationship with our traumas and pain. It’s a warrior’s path. The fruition of which is a capacity to meet the full depth and breadth of our human incarnation.

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

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Episode 128: Being Genuine – Part II

This is the second part of the talk we began listening to last week on the importance of authenticity when teaching the dharma. Reggie reflects on lessons learned from his teacher, Chogyam Trungpa. Genuineness, he says, is an expression of one’s fundamental non-existence.

This talk was given at the 2012 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 127: Being Genuine – Part I

Today in the talk Being Genuine, Reggie warns of the dangers of using spiritual language, teachings, and forms to hide our humanity. He says that the dharma is not a commodity. To teach the true dharma, we must practice regularly, speak directly from personal experience, and show up as we are.

This talk was given at the 2012 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Hard Questions

Interview with Reggie Ray

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge, August 2009

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon—who is a student of Reggie—poses a series of challenging and difficult questions to her instructor.

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Episode 126: Journey of Sacred Relationship

In today’s talk, Journey of Sacred Relationship, Reggie discusses the importance of the consort relationship in the vajrayana transmission of the practicing lineage. Consorts, he says, protect the openness of teaching spaces by interrupting attempts at securing territory. This groundlessness allows the lineage to come through.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO.

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Episode 125: Non-Theism

In this talk, Non-Theism, Reggie discusses the non-theistic view of the spiritual journey. Theism, he says, is an approach to spirituality marked by an allegiance to ideas about purity, brightness, and heavenly perfection. Non-theism, on the other hand, celebrates the cycle life and death, euphoria and depression, clarity and confusion. It is an embrace of life in its totality.

This talk was given at a class Reggie taught in 2011 in Boulder, CO.

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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.

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