Dharma Ocean

In this episode, Reggie asks us to relinquish Western conceptions of the body. He offers the view of the Vajrayana yogic tradition, in which the body is understood as not solid, but rather as an energetic expression of awareness.

This talk was given at the 2003 Winter Dathün retreat held in the rocky mountains of Colorado. To register for the upcoming Winter Dathün retreat, please visit our program calendar at dharmaocean.org

Here, Reggie says that mind states are like rainbows, they are apparent, but empty. True freedom is discovered when we stop trying to pin things down. To demonstrate this, Reggie offers an account of how it was impossible to pin Chogyam Trungpa down.

This talk was given at the 2004 Winter Dathün retreat held in the rocky mountains of Colorado. To register for the upcoming Winter Dathün retreat, please visit our program calendar at www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie reflects on the liberating experience that occurred in the space of a Dathün retreat after an embodied connection was established with the local ancestors and indigenous spirits of the natural world.

This talk was given at the 2006 Winter Dathün retreat held in Crestone, CO. To register for the upcoming Winter Dathün retreat, please visit the program calendar at dharmaocean.org.

In this episode, we listen to an excerpt from the opening talk to the first audio program Reggie recorded with Sounds True in 2003. He says that meditation helps us cut through the busyness and distractions of the modern world so that we can connect with our true life.

This excerpt is from a talk given in Meditating with the Body: Six Tibetan Buddhist Meditations for Touching Enlightenment with the Body, an intensive training audio course produced by Sounds True. It is available for download in the Dharma Ocean online store at www.dharmaocean.org

In the final part of this talk on Buddhism in the modern world, Reggie discusses the flowering of the three jewels: the Buddha as the lineage of emptiness; the Dharma as the profound teachings on meditation; and the sangha as the community of people who are at home in the loneliness, warmth, and craziness of the journey.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

Here, Reggie asks: what makes meditation unique when compared to other approaches to health, well-being, exploration, and discovery? He says it is the direct experience of emptiness found in the practice of completely letting go.

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In the first part of this talk on modern spirituality, Reggie says that organized religion is not the legacy of the Buddha, nor is the narcissistic materialism that underlies many individualistic approaches to meditation in global culture right now. 

This talk was given at the August 2009 Dhyanasangha weekend retreat held in Boulder, CO. To find out more about upcoming retreats, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie discusses the destabilizing process of somatic meditation. Practice, he says, opens space in our state of being that gives rise to surprising and unexpected experiences.

This talk was given in April 2005 at the Meditating with the Body Retreat held in Crestone, CO. To register for the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In the second part of this talk on the journey of meditation, Reggie says that it is important to not hang on to anything in our practice. Integrity in meditation is opening to what is, not chasing daylight, and letting go of what we think.

This talk was given in April 2005 at the Meditating with the Body Retreat held in Crestone, CO. To register for the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org

In this talk, Reggie says that the samsaric approach to chaos is to try to limit it, control it, and shut it down, but the purpose of meditation is to make room for chaos. In doing this, we open to the unknown and the unencumbered birth of our life.

This talk was given in April 2005 at the Meditating with the Body Retreat held in Crestone, CO. To register for the upcoming Meditating with the Body retreat, please visit www.dharmaocean.org