Interviews with leading spiritual teachers and writers about their latest challenges—the "leading edge" of their work.
Reggie Ray, PhD: Hard Questions for a Vajra Master
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tami Simon speaks with Reggie Ray, a teacher carrying on the lineage of the great Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a faculty member of Naropa University since its inception, and president and spiritual director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation based in Crestone, Colorado. He is the author of several books including Touching Enlightenment, as well as the Sounds True audio learning programs Meditating with the Body and Buddhist Tantra. Reggie answers a series of challenging and difficult questions from his student Tami. (52 minutes)
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Listening to Reggie’s interview was very interesting for me until he got to the story of the dark retreat….from that moment on I felt a deep sense of love and gratitude toward him. I don’t have a teacher of my own and don’t know how to find one. I have always had a deep desire for growth, and I have grown. But I wish I could find someone who could be a teacher or guide to help facilitate my journey. Would you please ask Reggie if he would honor me by viewing my artwork
on my website? After listening to this interview I now have a deep respect for Sounds True and the work you do. I send you all my love……Frank
Comment by Frank Wyman — August 26, 2009 @ 6:49 am
Great set of interviews in this podcast
series. looking forward to it every week.
Thanks !
Comment by chaitanya — August 27, 2009 @ 9:28 am
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What I appreciated so much about this interview was the nature of questions that penetrated into places of nakedness; and how this revealed the realness, and authenticity of Reggie. His wisdom, calm demeanour, and unshakeable conviction was palpable. I reveled in his description of the 10% population as risk takers,and adventurers into the unknown; sailing beyond the known harbour, into the vast, open ocean of the unchartered. This helped with my own personal acceptance of always wanting to go further, and deeper, and often being misunderstood for this intensity,which is simply how I am set up to experience, and use this lifetime, to keep pushing into the beyond of experience for greater understanding and expansion. Thank you Krystal Dyan
Comment by Krystal Dyan — August 28, 2009 @ 1:51 am
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” James Joyce
The courage displayed by Reggie Ray and Tami in this interview will stay with me a long time. En-courage-ment par excellence.
Throughout recorded history, insights based on duality, have dominated the world. ‘Putting my mind in the middle’ (Joseph Campbell), in between duality and that which transcends duality reminds me of the art of tightrope walking (funambulism). (Casts a whole new light on Tipping Points) As a funambulist (metaphorically speaking) … maintaining a balance between Attention and Intention is challenging. My polestar is Nature.
I would like to request more dialogue on how to make a smoother transition between resting in expansive silent awareness and participating voluntarily in a world gone mad.
Thank you for another simply wonderful interview and thank-you for your courage.
Comment by eileen — August 29, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
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What a beautiful gift Reggie Ray gave and Tami Simon accepted on behalf of all of us. The integrity of the questions and responses left me in awe and deep appreciation of life itself. I felt as though time had slowed down and I was being penerated by clarity and truth without my mind’s interpetation. I thank you so much for the rare and beautiful gift.
Comment by Norb — September 23, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
I had previously bought and read his book “Touching enlightenment, finding realization in the body”. I have idealized Reginald A. Ray as an extraordinary person. Now that I’ve listened to this interview, I see him in a more humane way. It helps me to put his teachings in a more realistic manner to my life. Now I can refer to him as Reggie. My gratitude to both Reggie Ray and Tami Simon.
Comment by Ricardo Almeida — October 3, 2009 @ 7:49 pm
Reggie says that without surrendering to an authentic teacher our chances of gaining the prize are one in a million. He goes on that in this country there is one authentic teacher for every five hundred teachers. Let us prodeed with caution.
Comment by Stan — December 4, 2009 @ 10:58 am
The ego IS a traumatic response. Don’t trust anyone who tells you they are beyond this. The best we can become is a human walking along the continuous journey. This is not always easy in a World gone mad, as Eileen reminds us. And the freedom and perfection are always already here.
What happens when we die? What happens when we live? Nobody really knows. Rest in this.
Sit and look into the darkness, hear into the silence and see what comes up. Peace and black mud, trauma to heal. Welcome to Hell. Resting in Emptimness gives us the space to endure in.
Let’s take the point of view that what is unusual is not pathological.
Very beautiful talk. Reggie sounds like an adventurer worthy of admiration.
Comment by Stan — December 4, 2009 @ 2:05 pm