The difference between observing the breath and resting in the breath Download There can be a distancing that occurs when trying to observe the breath. Resting doesn't involve struggle and increases quality of attention. EXCERPT - full transcript in progressKen: (00:52)And this is a very, very ancient method or approach and Buddhist practice. … [Read more...] about Breath: Observe or Rest?
Teachings: Short Talks
Reincarnation – Questions
A brief discussion on reincarnation from Death: Friend or Foe 7 Reincarnation - Questions Download Questions on if one can have a serious practice without believing in reincarnation, karma and rebirth, and what reincarnates if there is no self … [Read more...] about Reincarnation – Questions
Meditation: Intention and Edge
Working the edge in one’s practice (from Releasing Emotional Reactions 4) Intention and Edge. Download Questions on feeling tones that aries from practice, how does one find the edge in practice, how to remedy a lack of intention, working with the intention to be present … [Read more...] about Meditation: Intention and Edge
Meditation: Sitting and Life
From Mind Training 7 Meditation: Sitting and Life Download How to avoid an unhealthy tension between the activities of life and one’s practice, choosing between a monastic life and the life of a lay-person, acting without hesitation. \ … [Read more...] about Meditation: Sitting and Life
Meditative Stability
Meditative Stability Download Stopping distraction; primary characteristics, genesis and faults of fragmentation of attention and solitude … [Read more...] about Meditative Stability
Mind and Experience
A look at mind and experience from the Heart Sutra Workshop retreat Mind and Experience Download A look at mind and experience from the Heart Sutra Workshop retreat … [Read more...] about Mind and Experience