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In today’s episode, we hear Reggie’s instruction to a group of practitioners who are coming to the end of a meditation retreat. Such transitions, he says, are opportunities to discover our inherent dignity in the face of death, dissolution, and rebirth.

These excerpts are from talks given at the 2002 Winter Dathun retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. To find out more about the upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, we listen to remarks Reggie offered during the first staff meeting at the Meditating with the Body Teacher Training that was held last week at Blazing Mountain Retreat Center. He explains that tantra is the energetic continuity that lies beneath our habitual ideas and concepts about our lives, and that Vajrayana practitioners are people who are interested in immersing themselves in this continuity. Somatic Descent is offered as a practice that connects us to tantric reality.

These remarks were offered to the staff of the 2015 Teacher Training program held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming programs with Dharma Ocean, please visit our program calendar.

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In this talk, Reggie discusses the experience of fruition on the path of meditation. He says that at a certain point the spiritual identity falls away completely and eternity communicates through each moment of ordinary life. It is basic being – we are completely aligned with the karmic situation of our unique incarnation.

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, Reggie discusses the fullest expression of being human. It means being completely naked to our world and seeing that each moment and situation of our life is a constant expression of wisdom.

These excerpts are from talks given at the 2006 Advanced Meditating with the Body and 2013 Winter Dathun retreats held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, Reggie discusses the need to eventually relieve ourselves of the notion of a spiritual path altogether. While the path of meditation is essential to deepening and maturing as human beings, at a certain point, we realize that we need to drop even the reference point of our spiritual identity.

These excerpts are from talks given at the 2005 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Today we’ll listen to excerpts from talks Reggie has given on the last stage of the meditative journey. These teachings launch from the Dzogchen tradition, but refer to an experience of reality that is truly beyond any formulation whatsoever.

This talk was given at the 2005 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, we listen to a talk Reggie offered on how to work with obstructive states of mind. He says that the Vajrayana approach of working with difficult emotions is likened to a mythical peacock transmuting poison: we make a direct relationship with the defiling emotion and free inherent wisdom within the energy.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Mahamudra for the Modern World, a 37-hour intensive training course produced by Sounds True, and available for download in the Dharma Ocean store.

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Today, Reggie addresses the importance of integrity in the transmission of a Vajrayana lineage. He explains that genuine spirituality in the Vajrayana tradition requires a personal relationship with a teacher, participation in a community, and an ongoing commitment to practice.

This talk was given at the 2011 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO.  To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Today, we listen to the second part of a talk Reggie gave on the radical roots of Vajrayana practice. He explains how Vajrayana Buddhism was originally a wild spirituality that was practiced in jungles, but is now a largely abstract and domesticated religion. Our challenge, he says, is to recover the authentic primordiality of the tradition.

This talk was given at the 2007 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Today, we listen to the first part of a talk Reggie gave on the radical roots of Vajrayana practice. He explains how Vajrayana Buddhism was originally a wild spirituality that was practiced in jungles, but is now a largely abstract and domesticated religion. Our challenge, he says, is to recover the authentic primordiality of the tradition.

This talk was given at the 2007 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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