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Dharma Ocean

Summary: The Dharma Ocean podcast began in 2012 and offers hundreds of episodes relating to the path of embodied meditation practice and applying the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism to the unique problems, inspirations, and spiritual imperatives of modern people.

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 Episode 24: Integrity of the Lineage Part II | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:22

Today’s episode expands upon Reggie’s remarks from last week on the meaning of lineage. Here he suggests that a living lineage is not a fixed entity – it constantly gives birth to new life and unexpected situations. With examples from his own journey, Reggie shows how the lineage “can only be as deep and as vast as we are as people.” He explains, “The lineage is not a set of teachings, it's not a person. The lineage is an open-ended unfolding – a deepening and expanding that we’re all invited into.” To practice in such a lineage we must learn to let go of our expectations through dedicated practice and ongoing mentoring. In this way, he says, the lineage is very intimate and human. This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit www.dharmaocean.org.

 Episode 23: Integrity of the Lineage Part I | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:48

In today’s teaching, Reggie discusses how the power of a living lineage is carried forth through directness, honesty, and an uncompromising commitment to the integrity of the dharma. He shares stories from the lives of Chögyam Trungpa and his teachers, Jamgon Kongtrul and Khenpo Gangshar, to demonstrate how the blazing fire of an authentic lineage is passed down from one generation to the next. Genuine lineage holders, Reggie explains, are willing to challenge conventions, take risks, and not meet the expectations of others. However, this understanding of lineage challenges modern day notions that assign authority based on credentials, high thrones, and wealthy donors. Reggie says, “To find out who is a true lineage holder you listen to them teach. It's really straightforward and simple.” This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org.

 Episode 22: The Vajrayana Path of Desire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:05

This week’s episode presents part two of Reggie’s talk on the lives of the tantric saints in ancient India given at Stanford University in 2009. Here he discusses the essential role of desire in Vajrayana Buddhism. He begins by asking, does an embrace of desire imply that the Vajrayana tradition is not recognizably Buddhist? In taking up this question, Reggie explores how passion, sexuality, and the body are intrinsic to human experience. He says that according to tantra, any attempt to renounce desire reflects a rejection of our basic humanity. Instead, tantric meditation invites us to take desire as the path and to discover a burning love for our embodied human life, right now, in this world. For Vajrayana Buddhism, this love is the gateway to boundless awakening. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit www.dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 21: Tantric Saints in Indian Buddhism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:54

In this symposium lecture, given at Stanford University in 2009, Reggie discusses the prototype of the tantric saint in ancient India. As he explains, the tantric path is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by several characteristics: an emphasis on enlightened female lineage holders, an embrace of ordinary "householder" lifestyles, and a recognition of the liberatory potential of desire, anger, and other so-called "defiled" mind states. However, although the Vajrayana tradition is unique in its unconventional expression of the dharma, it nevertheless shares a basic understanding of emptiness that is common to all Buddhist lineages. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 20: Desire is the Gateway | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:45

In this week’s episode, Reggie responds to the commonly held notion that passion and attachment are obstacles to the practice of meditation. He explains that the animating life force of the universe is fundamentally an unbridled attraction that we ourselves discover when we fully open to our hunger, wanting, and longing. Tantra invites us further into desire and shows us a thread of longing that underlies our entire existence. For the tantric practitioner, this thread serves as a trusted guide on the spiritual journey. This talk was given at a weekend program in Portland, OR in 2009. To download more of Reggie’s teachings and to find out about upcoming retreats, please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 19: The Spiritual Journey is Down | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:18

In this talk, Reggie challenges the notion of spirituality as a journey of attainment – of progressing towards higher states of enlightened being. He explains that, according to the tantric tradition, true spirituality is actually a downward journey – into the unconscious, into the earth, into the grittiness of our humanity. This talk was given at a weekend program in Portland, OR in 2009. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 18: The Example of Jesus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:51

In today's podcast, recorded on a Christmas Day, Reggie speaks on the life and crucifixion of Jesus. He says that we, as modern practitioners, can look to Jesus as an example of someone who maintained integrity in the face of the brutality and materialism of the dominant culture. Further, he recognizes that within the beauty and power of the Western spiritual tradition is an important imperative: to make compassion real in the world – to create a society where people can live the teaching. This talk was given on Christmas Day at the 2003 Winter Dathun, a month-long meditation retreat. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 17: Bravery of the Bodhisattva | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:45

This week, Reggie discusses the bodhisattva — one who has committed their life to relieving the suffering of others. Far from being an unattainable ideal, the way of the bodhisattva is discovered in how we express our own innermost nature. When we overcome our habitual thinking, we realize that everything in our life is a source of joy and nourishment. Having tasted this life-giving “water” for ourselves, we are naturally compelled to offer our lives to others, no matter the cost. In the end, following the Dalai Lama, Reggie says, “the only way to find happiness is to love other people.” This talk is from a bodhisattva vow ceremony that was offered at the 2011 Winter Dathun -- a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 16: Vajrayana Tonglen | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:54

In this episode Reggie discusses tonglen, a Buddhist compassion practice, within the context of the Vajrayana understanding of interdependence. He says that when we encounter any difficult person, situation, or emotion we are meeting a part of ourselves that we have rejected. By opening to these rejected aspects we become whole. Today's episode was drawn from two talks given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 15: Awakening Heart | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:22

In today’s episode, Reggie discusses the somatic experience of knowing the world through our hearts. He says that the thinking mind has become the primary way of knowing in modern society and as a result we’ve lost touch with the intelligence of our hearts. By connecting with our hearts in meditation practice, we regain the ability to meet the world in a non-conceptual way. This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit DharmaOcean.org/Welcome.

 Episode 13: Meditation and the Path of Healing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:44

Today’s teaching expands on the previous podcast’s theme of the importance of healing on the spiritual journey. Reggie shows how healing begins when we open to our deepest pain and trauma. Surrendering to the reality of our lives, painful though it may sometimes be, is how we transmute our suffering and discover unconditional freedom. This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 12.1: Mahamudra and Modern Physics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:25

This is a special edition of our podcast featuring a teaching from our recent retreat Mahamudra for the Modern World. Today, Reggie invites us to consider a recent discovery in modern physics: that everything in the universe ultimately is born from nothing, from the universe itself down to the tiniest particles at subatomic levels. We are able to have direct experiential knowledge of this basic reality when we allow our limited viewpoints to dissolve into emptiness through meditation practice and witness the energy of our existence arise from that. In this way, the journey of meditation reflects a universal process of death and birth that occurs for all that is: from atoms and trees to stars and galaxies, and all of being itself. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 12: Healing, Wholeness, and Compassion | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:44

In this talk Reggie shows how the human journey of spirituality involves three aspects: healing, wholeness, and compassion. He explains that in order to progress in our meditation practice we must look at our overall health and work to resolve our pain and traumas in an integrative way. This work, he says, is also how we heal the earth. This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 11: Refuge in the Sangha | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:03

Today, as we finish our exploration of the meaning of Refuge, Reggie discusses the intimacy we share with one another in retreat and how that intimacy gives rise to a sense of profound devotion to our community of fellow practitioners. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

 Episode 10: Refuge in the Dharma | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:41

Today’s talk is a continuation of last week’s topic: the role of refuge on the Buddhist path. In this episode Reggie discusses refuge in the Dharma. He shows how our understanding of the meaning of dharma deepens in profound ways as we grow in the different stages of the journey. This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathun, a month-long retreat held at the White Eagle Conference Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download more of Reggie’s teachings, find out about upcoming retreats, and explore a variety of audio listening guides to assist you on your spiritual journey, please visit dharmaocean.org/welcome.

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