Dharma Ocean

In this episode, we listen to a talk Reggie offered at the close of a residential retreat intensive. He says that in the Vajrayana, we close retreats with a final banquet. It is a practice of making offerings to the ancestors, inviting the unseen world, and letting go into the “dark mysterious” of the lineage.  

This talk was given at the 2016 The Body Loves retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming The Body Loves retreat led by Caroline Pfohl, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Here, Reggie discusses how the practice of pure awareness is the natural next step on the Dharma Ocean journey of somatic meditation after we have worked with and integrated the Awakening the Body practices.

This excerpt is taken from Reggie’s upcoming online course called The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness: The Tantric Style of Embodied Meditation. To register for the course, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk from his upcoming online course, Reggie describes how he will guide us in transitioning from our foundation training in the “ground yana” bodywork practices to the sitting posture of the somatic practice of awareness practice.

This excerpt is taken from Reggie’s upcoming online course called The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness: The Tantric Style of Embodied Meditation. To register for the course, please visit dharmaocean.org

In the final part of this talk on dark knowledge, Reggie says that in the tradition of the practicing lineage we understand that the body is the enlightened alaya—the primordial source of all experience. To trust the body, is to trust experience. No matter how surprising, painful, or inconceivable.

This talk was given at the 2016 The Body Loves retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming The Body Loves retreat led by Caroline Pfohl, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In the second part of this talk on the dark knowledge of the body, Reggie says that in the practicing lineage we learn how to rest with the soma and wait. What unfolds is a process of vertical transformation that fundamentally changes our existential state of being.

This talk was given at the 2016 The Body Loves retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming The Body Loves retreat led by Caroline Pfohl, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Here, Reggie discusses the conceptual maps that we use to overlay experience. Direct experience, he says, is found in the body. It is the gateway to the dark knowledge of the soma: the totality that is beyond thought. 

This talk was given at the 2016 The Body Loves retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming The Body Loves retreat led by Caroline Pfohl, please visit dharmaocean.org.

In the final part of this talk on the training of a bodhisattva, Reggie offers instruction on how the practice of somatic descent shows us how to attend to the body when we are activated in a relationship. Through the discipline of waiting, our activation dissolves, and we see the way of love.

This talk was given at the 2014 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming Winter Dathün retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Here, Reggie describes the second step in the training of a Bodhisattva: the practice of Vajrayana maitri. He says that the way we heal our relationships with sentient beings is through healing the injured beings within us.

This talk was given at the 2014 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming Winter Dathün retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this episode, we listen to the first part of a talk Reggie offered at a Bodhisattva vow ceremony. He says that the first step in the training of a bodhisattva involves slowing down and opening to the wounded aspects of ourselves that we have cut off and banished.

This talk was given at the 2014 Winter Dathün retreat held at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, CO. To find out about the upcoming Winter Dathün retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Reggie offered this talk at the midway point in a month-long winter meditation retreat. He reminds the practitioners that meditation practice allows us to bring the living water of human spirituality into the dry desert of this suffering world.

This talk was given at the 2002 Winter Dathün retreat held in the rocky mountains of Colorado. To register for the upcoming Winter Meditation Intensive, please visit our program calendar at dharmaocean.org