Chapter 6 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] say, “Oh,” and the possibility of not engaging, it opens. That’s the awakening. Now, interestingly enough, the practice that I gave you right at the beginning, the five-step practice from Thich Nhat Hahn, it will take you through that process if you explore it deeply enough. With everything that comes up in your life, when […]
Chapter 5 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] of it, if you follow. That’s what I see as the core of the practice, the specific practice. There are many practices we could do, but the five-step practice that I gave you this morning, I think is a very effective way of doing this. There are other practices which could be used, taking and […]
Chapter 5 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] you have around your question. This is why I said to some of the other questions that have come up this evening, work those practices of the five-step practice, which is basically the Ananapansati Sutra, severely abbreviated. That expanding practice in which you’re just including more and more of your experience so that you’re eventually […]
Chapter 1 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] a cushion, represent the anger and I’ll sort of bring it closer and they say, “That’s close enough.” So that’s it. Meditation: seeing from the inside, a five-step practice Ken: And the key here is to work the edge, go to what you can do and come back that much. Just a tiny, tiny bit. […]
Chapter 3 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] want to miss a moment of it.” Well, then the challenge is to experience each moment completely, which includes all our reactions, if we can. And the five-step practice that I gave you last week is all about developing the ability to experience reactions completely. And how many of you have played with this instruction, […]
Chapter 14 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] get at right away? Ken: No, no, not right away, no. But one of the techniques that I give people, and this is an adaptation of the five-step practice from Thich Nhat Hanh. When he’s teaching it he talks about opening to one-tenth or one-hundredth of the experience. People I’ve worked with and for myself […]
Chapter 1 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] is one of the advanced awareness practices in the Tibetan tradition. And again, it’s very much in the same vein. Now, Thich Naht Hahn’s practice is a five-step practice, the dzogchen practice is a five-step practice, and so I’m going to be talking about the taking and sending as a five- step practice too. So […]
Chapter 8 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] just what is, with all of the discomforts and inconveniences of that. Just relating to what is, not what we want to be, but what is. A five-step practice for working with difficult feelings Ken: So, in your meditation practice I’d like you to work with this technique this morning. I’m sure all of you […]
Chapter 7 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] is showing up. The second step is opening to what you experience. And I said there were several techniques which could be used for that. One’s the five-step practice, which allows us to open more deeply. Another is the primary practice, which works both broadly and deeply. Student: Did you give us the primary? Ken: […]