Chapter 1 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] respectful appreciation. The trouble with those words is that they just don’t have the emotional juice they have. Now the devotion that we’re talking about isn’t blind faith at all. But it’s a warmth and an opening, and opening to connection, which [unclear]. [Audio feedback] A 12th century teacher in Tibetan Buddhism, a person […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] to do that too. So she spent hours and hours and hours reading the Prajnaparamita literature and just loved it. And on that basis, that’s how her faith and inspiration for practice came about. And, she had a number of teachers, her principle teacher Lama Sonam, relatively little is known about him. But at […]
Chapter 1 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] are from the Dzogchen, some of them from the Manifesting Absolute Reality is Dogen, one of a very famous teaching from the Zen tradition. Verses on the Faith Mind is a beautiful poem from the Chinese tradition. And One Sentence Pith Instructions from the Third Karmapa and All The Matter in the World is […]
Chapter 1 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] you who’ve been practicing for some time will be familiar with the central aim, but you will have approached it through compassion, or through loving-kindness, or through faith and devotion, or through insight. Student: Through what? Ken: Insight. The difference here is the approach is through power. And there are two reasons […]
