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In this talk, Reggie discusses the two aspects of an awake heart: absolute bodhicitta and relative bodhicitta. Absolute bodhicitta is the limitless space of our hearts and relative bodhicitta refers to the warmth that arises from that space and is expressed as love.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit our program calendar.

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In today’s episode, Reggie talks about dark knowledge – the intelligence of the body that communicates to us from the periphery of conscious awareness. He explains that every cell of the body holds this knowledge, but it only becomes accessible to us through our hearts.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, Reggie discusses sitting meditation in context of the Mahayana stage of the journey. He says that our attention naturally shifts from the space in the lower belly to the space in the heart center. As our hearts awaken, we become more empathetic and begin to see relationships with greater clarity.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathün retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Dathün, our Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit our program calendar.

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In this talk, Reggie explains how the suffering we encounter in others serves as an invitation to grow beyond our trivial attempts at territoriality. Doing this requires a deep commitment to practice and a willingness to dismantle the blockages that distort our relationships with the world.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathün retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming, Dathün, our Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, we listen to excerpts from talks Reggie has given on the Mahayana stage of the meditative journey. He discusses how we awaken to the vast suffering of the world, and respond to the call in our hearts to meet this suffering with love.

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

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In this talk, Reggie explores how human sadness points to a fundamental sense of disconnection from the totality. Sadness, he says, illuminates our longing to release the veils of ignorance and unite with the limitless space of being. It brings us to the cushion.

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

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Chogyam Trungpa described The Three Lords of Materialism as the way ego apes spiritual practice as a means to fortify barriers against the world. In this talk, Reggie discusses how the Lord of Form, the Lord of Speech, and the Lord of Mind obstruct the journey of meditation.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Meditation is sometimes viewed as a means to control experience and keep emotions in check. In this talk, Reggie challenges that notion. He shows how meditation actually helps us surrender control, open to chaos, and relax into the messiness of life.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, Reggie looks at how the practice of sitting meditation is an expression of renunciation. He says that it helps us see all the ways we avoid reality. At first, the process of relinquishing our attachment to distractions leads to a sense of barren non-existence. But this nothingness is the gateway to the totality.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Shikantaza is the discipline of just sitting. In this talk, Reggie explains how the posture of Shikantaza helps us renounce our impulsivity so that we can open to the immediacy of the body. Through this discipline of “doing nothing,” the natural state of our being emerges, pure and unencumbered.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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