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In today’s talk, Reggie says that true spiritual empowerment happens when we surrender to the raw expressive force of our unique incarnation. Doing this requires that we let go of unhelpful ideas about spiritual hierarchy and trust the natural process of awakening to our true nature. This talk was given at the 2009 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, […]

This episode features the second part of a talk that Reggie offered at a weekend retreat in Boulder titled African and Tibetan Approaches to Working with the Elements. Here, Reggie discusses how somatic meditation practices of Vajrayana Buddhism help us connect with the elemental reality of the universe.

This talk was given in 2008. To find out more about the next Meditating with the Body retreat that begins in September, please visit www.dharmaocean.org.

Today’s talk is from a weekend retreat Reggie co-lead with his spiritual brother, the Dagara shaman, Malidoma Somé. Here, Reggie draws upon his training as a religious historian to discuss the alienating movement away from earth based spirituality in the development of the so-called high religions of agriculatural civilizations.

This talk was given in 2008 at a weekend retreat in Boulder called African and Tibetan Approaches to Working with the Elements. 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 embodiment on the spiritual journey. He says that oftentimes we approach meditation as spectators – always a step removed from direct experience. Embodied meditation, however, invites us to enter the full action of our lives.

This talk was given at the April 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

Following last week’s episode on the deception of ego, in today’s talk Reggie uses Vajrayana imagery to describe the process of ego dismemberment that unfolds through the practice of meditation. He says that such experiences are part of the initiatory process in becoming who we are.

This talk was given at the 2007 Advanced 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

Reggie begins this talk by saying, “The view of ego is a personal, solid, sense of self that we have to maintain at all costs.” He discusses how the view of ego is reflected in the rampant materialism of the modern world, and explains how ritual can help us transcend the trap of ego.

This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie addresses the topic of religiosity in Buddhism. He says that ritual forms are problematic when seen as separate and external from our inner being, but can be helpful when related to as an expression of our enlightened nature.

This talk was given at the 2005 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

Trungpa Rinpoche taught that there are two orders of logic in the universe: the conventional rationality of ego, and the principle of chaos. In this talk, Reggie explains how the job of the vajrayana teacher is to communicate the principle of chaos.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathun retreat held in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. To find out more about the upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In today’s talk, Reggie discusses the karmic cycle of birth, existence, death, and rebirth. He says that by learning to open to karmic cycles in the situations of our lives, we can relinquish our resistance to change, and allow life to emerge free and unencumbered.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie discusses the esoteric tradition of Buddhist tantra. He explains that there is powerful intelligence in human desire – it awakens in us a longing to unite with experience in raw and direct ways.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Buddhist Tantra, an audio course produced in 2003 by Sounds True, and available the Dharma Ocean download store at www.dharmaocean.org