Dharma Ocean

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 www.dharmaocean.org

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 www.dharmaocean.org

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 at www.dharmaocean.org

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 www.dharmaocean.org

Today, we listen to 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 the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Today, we listen to 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 the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

n today’s episode, Reggie discusses how space gives birth to warmth and how warmth is expressed as the selfless wisdom energies of the vajra body. By opening to these energies without agenda, conception, or manipulation, we discover the empty play of unborn awareness as an experience of embodiment. 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.

In this talk, Reggie looks at the Vajarayana lineage of empowerment. He says that empowerment occurs when the student experiences limitless freedom, love for what is, and the inherent beauty of life. The job of a Vajrayana teacher is to create situations in which empowerment can occur. This talk was given at the 2009 Advanced Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this episode, we explore the ground, path, and fruition of the Vajrayana journey. Reggie explains that the ground involves seeing the sacredness of reality, the path involves learning to trust experience, and the fruition is the wonder of revelation that occurs in each moment of life. This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

You are listening to the Dharma Ocean podcast. In this talk, Reggie says that when we let go of our limited ideas about life we encounter a vast and brilliant world – the vajra world – that communicates with us through unexpected signs that invite us to align with the dance of reality, the joy of being, and the boundless love of our true nature. This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In today’s episode, we listen to an excerpt from a talk Reggie gave on the topic of fearlessness in the Vajrayana tradition of spiritual transformation. Fearlessness, he says, does not mean without fear. Rather, it’s a willingness to open to fear and experience the messy parts of life that we normally reject and relegate to the periphery of our being. This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this episode, Reggie discusses the earth as an elemental reality that defies conceptuality. He explores several of the earth’s different aspects – it is the source of all life, our original mother, and connects us to the potent wildness inherent in all being. This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon. To find out more about the next Meditating with the Body retreat that begins in September please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this episode, Reggie discusses the importance of spiritual pilgrimage in Vajrayana meditation. He says that visiting sacred sites in the world reflects the tantric tradition of outer pilgrimage, and journeying through the sacred landscapes of the body is an expression of inner pilgrimage. This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon. To find out more about the next Meditating with the Body retreat that begins in September please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this teaching, Reggie comments on the role of the body in daily meditation practice. He says that modern people often approach meditation as a means to get out of the body. But without an openness to pain, feelings, traumas and memories, there is no journey – we don’t grow. This talk was given in 2009 at a retreat held in Portland, Oregon. To find out more about the next Meditating with the Body retreat that begins in September please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In today’s talk, Reggie explains how attitudes of subjugation, repression, and control in agricultural societies have led to a modern sense of profound separation from our bodies. He says that when we meditate with the body, we reclaim a primordial way of knowing the world. This talk was given at the 2007 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the next Meditating with the Body retreat that begins in September please visit www.dharmaocean.org