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Meditation allows space to open in our state of being for difficult, challenging, and distressing experiences to arise. Reggie says that these experiences are not pathological, but rather expressions of the unconscious calling for recognition and acceptance.

This talk is excerpted from Reggie’s upcoming online course called Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation. To register for the course, please visit our program calendar.

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Today, we listen to an excerpt from a talk Reggie offered on how the range of direct experience increases as we progress along the path of somatic meditation. He says that fear, anxiety, and apprehension in practice are often harbingers of awakening.

This talk is excerpted from Reggie’s upcoming online course called Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation. To register for the course, please visit our program calendar.

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In this talk, Reggie discusses the difference between religion and spirituality. He says that religious traditions often gain inspiration from living spirituality, but there is a distinction: religions offer maps, while spirituality is the flame of meaning in one’s life.

This talk is excerpted from Reggie’s upcoming online course called Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation. To register for the course, please visit our program calendar.

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In this episode, Reggie comments on how dependence on the teacher can stunt fundamental transformation. True growth, he says, requires unconditional commitment. Through letting go of options, we are cornered by the imperatives of the journey.

This talk was given in 2010 as an audio journal entry for the sangha. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In the second part of this talk on Vajrayana tantra, Reggie reflects on the somatic journey of becoming transparent to the cosmos through our own body. He says that the siddha tradition does not involve renunciation of worldly life, rather awakening unfolds within and through everyday experience.

This talk was given in 2009 at a public program in San Francisco, CA. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In this talk, Reggie comments on the esoteric tradition of Buddhist meditation that Chögyam Trungpa taught to Western students. He describes the terrifying experience of encountering a person who completely embodied empty open awareness: it inspired him to become naked to life.

This talk was given in 2009 at a public program in San Francisco, CA. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Today, we listen to the third part of Reggie’s talk on the radical journey of individuation that occurs when we trust the inherent force of our unique karma. Through this process, we learn to let go of expectations and embody our individuality with integrity.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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Here, Reggie says that the true path of Dharma is risky because it leads to full disclosure of who we are. In the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa, we cultivate a suspicion of spiritual ambition, narcissism, goals of attainment, and religious traditions. In this way, we become ever more naked to the bare reality of life.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In the first part of this talk on the Vajrayana tradition, Reggie comments on the shocking nature of the meditative path of desire. He says that the wisdom of Buddhism is that is does not offer answers, but rather practices for realizing the lineage. It is the unconventional way of awakening.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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In the second part of this talk on the nature of space, Reggie discusses how the primordial expression of energy manifests as the five elementals: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Each element, he says, is inherently open and empty, and yet has qualities. He describes the qualities in detail.

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 more about upcoming retreats, please visit our program calendar.

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