< ?php include 'pod.html'; ?>[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image source="featured_image" img_size="large" alignment="center"]Excerpt from Heart Sutra Workshop 3[/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Understanding Form Is EmptinessDownload What is meant by 'form is emptiness, emptiness is … [Read more...] about Understanding Form Is Emptiness
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Working With Patterns
Working with patterns DownloadQuestions on the mind of the body and patterned tendency, keeping practice alive, and where do released reactive patterns go. Transcript Host (00:41): This question is from Thomas in Ohio. My question is about a piece of advice that I've heard from you, Ken, on numerous occasions, namely "in the face of … [Read more...] about Working With Patterns
Thoughts
It doesn’t matter how deeply you fall into distraction, there’s always a moment—and it may be a second, a minute, five minutes, ten minutes, whatever–where you go, “Oh, I’ve been distracted.” Everything depends on what we do in that moment. ThoughtsDownloadQuestions on being an observer of one's thoughts, mind training and flattening … [Read more...] about Thoughts
Self and no-self
\Questions on what is being referred to when using the word 'me' if there is no-self and reconciling non selfhood with ordinary friendship and love. Part 1Download No-self as a core insight of Buddhism (from Guru, Deity, Protector 4), questions on working with a sense of self, the stories we tell about self, self and suffering Part … [Read more...] about Self and no-self
Sangha and Teaching
A discussion on spiritual organizations Sangha and Teaching Download Questions on attachment to leadership roles, sangha degrading into a social situation, qualities that support the capacity to teach. … [Read more...] about Sangha and Teaching
Mountain Burnt Offering Ritual
Om svasti This practice of the Mountain Burnt Offering follows the instructions from Lhatsün Rigdzin's Life Practices ((Lhatsün Rigdzin: an 18th century Nyingma tertön (treasure-revealer).)). Make a fire full of good fortune, that is, in a clean hearth or container, set afire whatever you have at hand: aromatic woods, resins, medicinal plants, the … [Read more...] about Mountain Burnt Offering Ritual