Dharma Ocean

In today’s talk, Reggie discusses posture, pure awareness, and the history of Tibetan Buddhism. He says that recent scholarship in Tibetan history reveals how Chan Buddhism played a central role in the development of Mahamudra practice. These discoveries demonstrate the flexible dynamism and open-endedness of the Mahamudra tradition.

This talk was given at the 2014 Mahamudra for the Modern World retreat held in Crestone, CO. Reggie's new audio training program, The Practice of Pure Awareness, was recently published by Sounds True.

In the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa, we commit to showing up for life through intensive meditation practice. In this talk, Reggie acknowledges that the way of somatic meditation is often very difficult. It’s a warrior’s path. The fruition of which is a capacity to meet the full depth and breadth of our human incarnation.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit www.dharmaocean.org and click on our program calendar.

This is the second part of the talk we began listening to last week on the importance of authenticity when teaching the dharma. Reggie reflects on lessons learned from his teacher, Chogyam Trungpa. Genuineness, he says, is an expression of one's fundamental non-existence.

This talk was given at the 2012 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit www.dharmaocean.org and click on our program calendar.

Today, Reggie warns of the dangers of using spiritual language, teachings, and forms to hide our humanity. He says that the dharma is not a commodity. To teach the true dharma, we must practice regularly, speak directly from personal experience, and show up as we are.

This talk was given at the 2012 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit www.dharmaocean.org and click on our program calendar.

In today’s talk, Reggie discusses the importance of the consort relationship in the vajrayana transmission of the practicing lineage. Consorts, he says, protect the openness of teaching spaces by interrupting attempts at securing territory. This groundlessness allows the lineage to come through.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit www.dharmaocean.org and click on our program calendar.

In this talk, Reggie discusses the non-theistic view of the spiritual journey. Theism, he says, is an approach to spirituality marked by an allegiance to ideas about purity, brightness, and heavenly perfection. Non-theism, on the other hand, celebrates the cycle life and death, euphoria and depression, clarity and confusion. It is an embrace of life in its totality.

This talk was given at a class Reggie taught in 2011 in Boulder, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit www.dharmaocean.org and click on our program calendar.

Today, Reggie discusses the claustrophobia we feel when we commit to the tight confines of a retreat environment. A good retreat, he says, is very uncomfortable from the standpoint of ego. There is wisdom in the discomfort: by not getting what we want, we are forced to drop our preoccupations and relax into what is.

This talk was given at the at the 2010 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

The Vajrayana tradition of spirituality views the consort relationship as a skillful gateway to non-dual awakening. In this talk, Reggie discusses the consort journey. He says that consorts help liberate one another from fixed points of view by continually challenging each other’s versions of reality.

This talk was given at the September 2009 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

The Vajrayana tradition of spirituality views the consort relationship as a skillful gateway to non-dual awakening. In this talk, Reggie explains how consorts help liberate fixed points of view by continually challenging one another's versions of reality.

This talk was given at the September 2009 Meditating with the Body retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Spiritual materialism is an approach to meditation in which we fixate on goals and perfection, and try to secure a sense of accomplishment. In this talk, Reggie challenges this notion. He says that true spirituality is actually a journey into the grittiness of our humanity.

This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org