Reggie Ray: The Awakened State
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Reginald A. Ray, gifted teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for 40 years in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Reggie is the founder of Dharma Ocean and author of the book Touching Enlightenment. His most recent program with Sounds True is a historic 37-hour audio training course on the pinnacle teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, titled Mahamudra for the Modern World. In this episode, Tami speaks with Reggie about the possibility of using modern methods for capturing the essence of student-to-teacher transmission, how glimpsing the awakened state fits in with Mahamudra training, and the “three teachers”—a human teacher, the natural state, and life itself. (65 minutes)
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I have listened to this conversation, Tami and Reggie’s, I liked it very much and related to it carefully. So thankful.
Comment by Monique — June 23, 2012 @ 8:24 am
Reggie is The Man! Totally right on about the use of the voice in online transmission. I’ve been using his Guided Meditations from Dharma Ocean to go to sleep many nights. . . . a wonderful, always exquisitely timely, voice.
Comment by mickeypamo — June 23, 2012 @ 7:00 pm
I would like to say That Dr. R.Ray works through S.T. answers a basic need for people like me. Some of us have long term financial difficulties, also live in isolated areas in other countries,are sick enough to travel ( at least temporary or other wise ). Dr. Ray is not afraid to make the highest teachings available, He is not after financial advantage .He is open hearted to those who need His teachings but cannot obtain from the classic sources without being members and if that is not possible than the teachings are not forthcoming. Maybe Dr. Ray should know that many people now and in the future are dependent on His publications and fearless teachings for their spiritual development ( wake up ). May it continue as far as this is possible. You most certainly have my deepest gratitude and I’d dare say many of inarticulate others.
Comment by Larry Pons — June 23, 2012 @ 8:43 pm
I have been working with the first volume of “Your Breathing Body” and know that after 4 years of watching the breath at my nose, I am finally really experiencing something. The 5 levels of breath practice along is priceless.
Comment by Janet Bonarski — June 29, 2012 @ 6:40 am
- something maintains or exists “throughout the whole cosmos.” No. Unless “the whole cosmos” isn’t a mystery to you.
- apparently you believe that waking up is a matter of making a certain journey, and otherwise THE CLAIM that someone doesn’t need to do that journey is suspect. Who cares about that claim ? Who cares about “this journey” as opposed to “that journey ?”
- if the awakened state gives birth to energy, gives rise to an energetic dimension, why do we need to give that energy a name? and why isn’t it possible, even likely, that the well motivated individual will create a form unique to themselves that allows a full relationship with that energy. Trungpa DID transmit a lot of stuff to other people that he did not transmit to you. And it seems to me that he would be in total agreement with one of my teachers who said, “we must create the form.” We must bring it to earth and give that energy an expression and a manifestation suited to now and the conditions that prevail. Perhaps Trungpa was challenged by how to teach meditation and then have it absorbed and used on an individual basis according to that individual’s level, background and needs.
- Yes. I said “needs.” for example, I need my grandchildren to have an o.k. world to have a life in. don’t you think that would / should determine how I use meditation, what forms I create to pursue meditation ? And if I end up with forms that are totally un-Tibetan and un-Buddhist, don’t you just feel Trungpa giving a long, slow applause somewhere back there in the wings. He’s already succeeded, Reggie, he really did transmit lots and lots of stuff. We should celebrate that, and if somehow we can also do something about the fact that climate change is destroying the ozone layer as we speak, so much the better.
Comment by gary — July 28, 2012 @ 11:51 am
I have the digital version and decided to listen to the interview before I began. I am already ecstatic and haven’t had “the Pointing Instruction” yet. Hopefully I will tonight or this weekend. I agree totally with the idea that voice and recording CAN transmit so much. I feel I know Tami from listening to many of her introductions and other podcasts. This interview was simply divine. I can’t thank both of you enough and hope I can find a way to convey what I experience through this unique Transmission. Namaste!!
Comment by ej — October 12, 2012 @ 3:17 pm
Soon I will be going through the course for a third time. The second time my son and I did the coures together over some months. We also did the breathing body 2 CD set. It is all very excellent. We were not novices at meditation, and my own style is more free form, but it can be enriching to learn a style that is very different from what one has known. Thank you, Reggie Ray for many hours of great fun (yes, fun; transcendent fun).
Comment by Linda Reneau — January 18, 2013 @ 7:02 pm