Dharma Ocean

What does it mean to take refuge in the Buddha? In this episode, Reggie explores this question from the standpoint of the outer, inner, and secret dimensions of the Buddhist journey. He explains that fundamentally the Buddha is the very essence of our being - the very source of our life. This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathun, a month-long retreat held at the White Eagle 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.

This talk was originally given at the 2011 Winter Dathun - a month-long retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. Refuge is an important moment in the Buddhist journey. It is a ritual event in which we have the opportunity to commit to the practice of meditation as a spiritual path. In today’s talk, Reggie discusses how in taking refuge we learn to abandon distractions and leap to the choicelessness of each moment. 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.

This week’s episode features three talks originally recorded at Dharma Ocean community weekends in Boulder, Colorado. As an historian of religions, Reggie has closely studied early Buddhist texts to better understand the human journey of the Buddha in ancient India. Today, we’ll listen to excerpts from three different talks Reggie has given on the life and legacy of the historical Buddha. He asks us to reconsider our assumptions about who the Buddha was.

This week’s episode features a talk originally recorded at the 2005-06 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. Renunciation is an important topic in the traditional teachings of the Buddha, and is commonly misunderstood. In today’s talk, Reggie explains that renunciation is not about turning away from our relative lives, but instead is a natural outgrowth of meditation practice. Renunciation spontaneously occurs when we stop following our habitual impulses and expectations in everyday life and connect with what is called in the Zen tradition “our true life.” To download the complete teachings from this retreat, visit www.dharmaocean.org/store.

This week’s episode features a segment of a talk given at the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. This week, Reggie addresses the experience of groundlessness that often occurs when we engage in intensive meditation practice. He explains how we can trust those moments when we lose our sense of identity and encourages us to open to the uncertainty we feel when we encounter the limitless domain of our being. To download the complete teachings from this retreat, visit www.dharmaocean.org/store.

In this week’s episode Reggie expands on the topic of Buddha Nature offered in last week’s podcast. When we are able to surrender into our own basic nature, we begin to uncover our unique authentic person. Through the practice of meditation, we discover that the imperative of our spiritual journey is to become fully who we are, without reservation. This talk was taken from a longer teaching Reggie gave at the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. To download the complete teachings from this retreat, visit www.dharmaocean.org/store.

This episode features a segment of a talk recorded at the April 2009 Meditating with the Body Retreat at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. Reggie discusses the unique spiritual imperative facing modern people and in particular the state of disconnection that is prevalent in modern society. He explores how invaluable the Buddhist-inspired journey is at this time and how we can discover our own Buddha Nature afresh in each moment through the felt sense of our embodied experience. Wisdom, he offers, “is contained within every cell of our body.” To download the complete teachings from this retreat, visit www.dharmaocean.org/store.

This episode features a talk originally recorded during the 2010-11 Winter Dathün, a 28-day meditation retreat held annually at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. Reggie explores Buddhist tantra as a spiritual path and discusses inspiration in the practice of meditation. He offers guidance for how we develop trust in the magic and perfection of our lives and explores how the practice of meditation is about dismantling our doubt. To download the complete teachings from this retreat, visit www.dharmaocean.org/store.