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Episode 250: The Practicality of Spirituality

March 29, 2019

In this talk, Reggie says that the tantric path does not separate spiritual practice from the ordinary circumstances of everyday life. Rather, tantric meditation invites us to see the sacredness within the earthiness, messiness, emotions, and chaos of our human incarnation.

This talk was given in 2009 at an evening gathering held at the Star House in the foothills outside of Boulder, CO. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat led by Caroline Pfohl and Manuela Mischke-Reeds, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 249: Genuine Spirituality – Part II

March 20, 2019

In the second part of this talk on genuine spirituality, Reggie describes the outer, inner, and secret forms of the retreat container. By respecting the forms, practicing silence, and staying present to waves of pain, we come to discover the abundance of our true life.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat led by Caroline Pfohl and Manuela Mischke-Reeds, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 248: Genuine Spirituality – Part I

March 16, 2019

Spiritual materialism is the ambitious ego-centered approach of striving for perfection through meditation practice. Here, Reggie speaks to genuine spirituality—the willingness to face our insecurities, depression, anger, darkness, and pride with an open heart. Such an approach, he says, is the way of wholeness.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat led by Caroline Pfohl and Manuela Mischke-Reeds, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 247: Meditating with the Elements

March 11, 2019

Here, Reggie says that when we practice with the elements we discover that their basic nature is space. For instance, by allowing our awareness to completely enter the into the life of fire, we touch the emptiness, openness, and warmth of being.

This talk was given at the April 2009 Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat led by Caroline Pfohl and Manuela Mischke- Reeds, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 246: Practicing in Cold Places – Part II

March 1, 2019

In the second part of this talk on the challenges, demands, and grittiness of retreat practice, Reggie says that the way through involves developing trust in our feelings of disruption, uncertainty, anxiety. In the Vajrayana, difficult emotions are a source of inspiration and strength.

This talk was given at the 2016 Meditating with the Body retreat held at Buckfast Abbey in Devon England. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 245: Practicing in Cold Places – Part I

February 22, 2019

After circumstances did not unfold according to plan, a group of devoted practitioners in England erected a tent so that a late autumn retreat could go on. Reggie offers a talk of encouragement, sharing lore about the hardiness of the lineage in times past.

This talk was given at the 2016 Meditating with the Body retreat held at Buckfast Abbey in Devon England. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit our program calendar.

 

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Episode 244: Invoking the Primeval Fire – Part II

February 12, 2019

You are listening to the Dharma Ocean Podcast. In the second part of this talk on entering into relationship with the energetic aspect of the elements, Reggie says that the journey of becoming who we are is found in surrendering to the primeval birth of the five elements in the empty space of our basic state of being.

This talk was given at the 2009 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 243: Invoking the Primeval Fire – Part I

February 5, 2019

In this talk, Reggie discusses the burning quality of space that is felt when we open to heightened awareness of emptiness. By offering our agendas, strategies, and concepts to the primordial Fire, Life is liberated to flare forth—utterly wild and free.

This talk was given at the 2009 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit our program calendar.

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Episode 242: The Edge of Fear

January 28, 2019

In this talk, Reggie reflects on the fear we experience on the somatic journey of meditation when we lose reference points and enter into the world of the shadowlands, a world that is utterly new and unfamiliar—the realm of our true self.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Your Breathing Body Volume I – Beginning Practices for Physical, Emotional, an d Spiritual Fulfillment, an intensive audio training produced by Sounds True. It is available for download in the Dharma Ocean online store.

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Episode 241: The Life of Chögyam Trungpa

January 12, 2019

Here, Reggie introduces his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa. He offers a short account of Trungpa’s journey from Tibet, to England, and then to North America, and discusses how he transmitted the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings to his Western students.

This excerpt is from a talk given in When Lightning Strikes: The Living Teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a video course produced by Sounds True. It is available for download in the Dharma Ocean online store.

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