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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Reggie Ray. Reggie is carrying on the

lineage of the great Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher, Chogim Trumpurimpeche. On the faculty of Naropa University since its inception, he is

president and spiritual director of the Darma Ocean Foundation, based in Creston, Colorado.

He's the author of several books including Touching Enlightenment,

Finding Realization in the Body, as well as the Sounds True Audio Learning Programs,

Meditating with the Body,, and Buddhist Tontra.

As a personal student of Reggie Ray, he and I decided that for this episode of Insights

at the Edge, I would ask him a series of challenging difficult questions.

So here we go. Hard questions for a Bajra Master with Reggie Ray.

This is an unusual insights at the edge recording because I am sitting here with the person who is my teacher, my meditation teacher. For the last seven and a half years, Reggie, you and I have worked together.

And most of the people that I interview are sounds true authors that I've learned a lot from and who in some ways I may consider teachers

but not the same kind of formal relationship that you and I have.

And you've asked me to ask you hard questions, not just because you're someone I have a great deal of respect and a special relationship with to just sort of throw you underhand softballs but to, you know,

throughout the hard balls.

So here we go.

I spoke to some of my friends and said,

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