Dharma Ocean

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

Today we listen to excerpts from talks Reggie has given on the Vajrayana stage of the meditative journey. He says that Vajrayana practice involves a shocking process of dismantling the territory of ego, and we become very naked, stripped down, and open.

These excerpts are taken from talks given at a variety of public retreats held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie looks at how the Mahayana training of the Bodhisattva transitions to the Vajrayana stage of the journey. He says that inborn wisdom naturally emerges in our state of being when we engage in helping beings. At a certain point, this wisdom compels us to let go further and meet the sacredness of all reality.

This talk was given at the 2005 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this episode, we listen to a talk Reggie offered on the three commitments of a bodhisattva. The three commitments are: caring for our life, caring for beings, and caring for the world. He says that these commitments help us expand beyond our tendencies toward self-preservation so that we can be more authentic in our service to the world.

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

Today, Reggie discusses the deep and unalterable commitment we feel when our hearts open to suffering in the world. This commitment is formally expressed as the Bodhisattva Vow. It involves a path of training that connects us to the source of love over and over again.

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

This week we'll listen to a talk Reggie gave on the different stages of the bodhicitta practice of awakening the heart. He explains how our direct somatic experience of the heart unfolds as an ever increasing capacity to meet others with "unconditional, non-judgmental, all-accepting, infinite, unbiased love."

This talk was given at the 2013 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie discusses the two aspects of an awake heart: absolute bodhicitta and relative bodhicitta. Absolute bodhicitta is the limitless space of our hearts and relative bodhicitta refers to the warmth that arises from that space and is expressed as love.

This talk was given at the 2011 Winter Dathun retreat held in Crestone, CO. To find out more about the upcoming Winter Dathun retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org