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Reginald “Reggie” Ray, PhD, is an American Tibetan Buddhist, author, and studier of shamanic traditions and contemplative yogic practices. He founded Dharma Ocean, a nonprofit foundation and teaching center for meditation, retreats, and passing on the wisdom of his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

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Pain Not Suffering

As long as we have bodies, we will have physical pain. Buddhism promises no escape from that. What we can change is how we experience pain.

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Darlene Cohen, Shinzen Young, Reginald Ray
2007
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What Is Vipashyana

Vipashyana means “to see things in an extraordinary way”—not as we think they are or want them to be but “as they truly are in and of themselves.

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Reginald A. Ray
2004
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Waiting. Waiting. for What?

Meditation is often considered a self-contained activity, different from our actual life. More accurately, meditation is training for life.

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Reginald Ray
2002
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The Floating Heads

Many Western Budddhists, says Reginald Ray, perpetuate the mind/body, secular/sacred dualism that has marked our culture since early Christianity.

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Reginald Ray
2002
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Problematic Self

“Self” is a purely conceptual construction says Dr. Reginald A. Ray in his fourth and final article exploring the “self.” He says, “What makes one’s ‘self’ so problematic is its degree of isolation from our actual experience, its rigidity and dissonance with reality beyond itself.”

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Reginald Ray
2003
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Three-In-One: a Buddhist Trinity

The “three bodies of the Buddha” may seem like a remote construct, says Reginald Ray, but they are the ground of existence and present in every moment of our experience.

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Reginald Ray
2004
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The Red Coat and the Teaching of Impermanence

“Only when I realized that our time together was limited was the veil stripped away,” says Reginald A. Ray, “In that moment, I discovered a love for her that had nothing to do with my own preconceptions.”

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Reginald A. Ray
2002
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Understanding Karma

Reginald A. Ray examines the doctrine of karma, one of the most important yet most misunderstood of all Buddhist teachings.

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How to Study the Dharma

In Buddhism, an ever-deepening understanding unfolds naturally from intellectual study. This process is classically expressed in the teaching of the three prajnas, or kinds of knowledge—hearing, contemplating and meditating.

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Reginald Ray
2004
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What's the Use of Suffering

The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.

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Reginald A. Ray
2001
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