Chapter 2 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] somewhat like this. I got into a big argument with him because for two months we were meant to be doing The Great Path of Awakening, and taking and sending, and all of that stuff, in the second retreat that I was in. And he just went, “Nah, don’t worry about this.” And I said, “You […]
Chapter 5 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
Q&A on taking and sending practice Ken: The practice that I described this morning is the main practice of taking and sending. So I’d like to take some of our time this afternoon to take up any questions or any clarifications you are seeking in how you actually do this practice in meditation periods. So let’s […]
Chapter 4 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] fictitious. So not only is nobody else there, but you’re not there either. In other words, it’s simply experience. This is the world in which we practice taking and sending. We talk about waking up. Waking up means to know what is arising and to know what it is. And there are these two aspects. Well, […]
Chapter 4 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] you figure that one out. The three gates Ken: Okay. This morning, going start working with another technique. This particular technique is based on the principles of taking and sending. And unlike the work we did yesterday, it has no pedigree. You are guinea pigs, once again. So, I hope you survive. Everybody did sign the […]
Chapter 15 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] of those levels is dismantled. [Unclear] Patterns: expressive and receptive poles Student: I had an experience which might be related, which was experiencing a big pattern in taking and sending. And then realizing that there was a secondary … like almost a sense of myself that existed in a shadow of that reactive emotion. And then […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] wonderful, the chants are beautiful, the melodies are beautiful, ringing a bell and drum with it. And then he said, the inner chö is the practice of taking and sending. Now, taking and sending is a particular meditation in the Tibetan tradition which, when you first hear about it, it strikes you as emotional suicide, but […]
Chapter 8 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] to his meditation. Have a meal now and then. Meditate. When he got really tired, go to sleep. That is just what he did the whole time. Taking and sending is a practice that you can do. And one of the great things about taking and sending is you can always do it. It can be […]
Chapter 5 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] Is that Alex Berzin’s? Yeah, I thought so. He adds a few little ideas in there to make it into nice English. George: My question is in taking and sending, as I understand it, you are taking on, you’re experiencing the suffering around you. Ken: George, put this in two sentences. George: Okay. How are the […]
Chapter 4 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] But it’s the one through which we habitually relate to life. So, I want to do a short period of meditation, which is the central principle of taking and sending. A meditation: taking and sending Ken: Many people have [unclear] this as emotional suicide. If none of you survive, that’d be a good thing. And it […]
Chapter 7 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] the experience—if there is pain there. And you don’t try to fix it. Maybe that will be of some use to somebody today, I don’t know. Okay? Taking and sending Ken: August 25th evening session A Trackless Path, New Mexico. Over the last couple of days a few people have said that they have some questions […]
Chapter 10 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
Vajrayana taking and sending Ken: There are various approaches to taking and sending. One we haven’t discussed explicitly—come to think of it we haven’t discussed it implicitly either—is the Vajrayana approach to taking and sending, distinguishing it from the Mahayana approach. I’m not sure really how widely this is practiced. It’s an instruction that I received […]
Chapter 10 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] mechanism, which as we were just discussing, prevents us from experiencing things just as they are. In other words, it prevents us from experiencing our life completely. Taking and sending Ken: So I want to introduce another practice, which many of you’re familiar with, and that is the practice of taking and sending. In taking and […]
Chapter 9 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] the fire-circle, is in your meditation now, I want you to do the dream practice. That is, Everything is like a dream. And in that experience do taking and sending. See what that’s like. Okay? Yes. Colleen. Do we have a microphone? Student: When we’re trying to control our experiences … Ken: Just hold it. Student: […]
Chapter 7 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] That came up for me realizing that this was just what happened or what could happen. Ken: Okay. Anybody else? Student: I found that in moving into taking and sending, I got present, got out of my mind and into my heart, I found that to just be an opening. Ken: Alright, Peri? Peri: Well, it […]
Chapter 5 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] life Ken: This morning I talked a little bit about compassion and emptiness. And I gave you the technique of working with a kind of five-step process, taking and sending, which actually leads to emptiness. Take in the pain; open to your reactions to the pain; touch happiness within yourself and send it to the other; […]