Chapter 7 of “Death: Friend or Foe?”
[…] more ordinary way. And that higher level of energy just flows into our habituated way of doing things. So not infrequently, people experience themselves as being more reactive after a retreat. And they don’t understand why when they were so peaceful and present in the retreat. This is why when you leave here, it’s […]
Chapter 6 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] As you recite the mantra elixir drips from this, filling first her form and then overflowing through her toe. Coming and washing all the karmic obscurations, negativity, reactive patterns and emotions, confusion, bewilderment totally out of your being and out of the being of all sentient beings everywhere. And all of that negativity and disturbance, […]
Chapter 2 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] you’re in the totality of all the sensory sensations. You include all the thinking and all of the stories as mental sensations, and all of the emotions, reactive, responsive, higher, lower. Doesn’t matter. Just include everything. And you find that you’re in a field of experience. Now, just rest in that field. And then […]
Chapter 2 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] So that’s how I have always practiced it, is that way. But I can’t actually give you a definite answer on that. In the tantric physiology, the reactive channel and the wisdom channel are reversed. So it would seem to make sense to do that. Student: [Unclear] Ken: If you’re a woman? Student: No, […]
Chapter 28 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] which, you know, fundraisers just love, not so good. He only lists these three, but you could say if your giving is based on any of the reactive emotions of the six realms, then it just is a reinforcement of those realms. So, those are impure motivations and then— Joe: I have a question […]
Chapter 5 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] we’re working emotionally is extremely important. You’ll know if something is out of balance or—to put it another way—it is the expression of or feeding of a reactive pattern, by how it plays in your body. Ken: Janet you had a question. Janet: When you encounter a part of you that resists this kind of […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning from the Lives of Lineage Holders”
[…] great and glorious motivation. Every person who treads the path, treads it for the same reason: We are going to die, our life energy is consumed by reactive patterns, which make a mess of our life both for ourselves and for other people. The process is completely out of control. The only thing to do […]
Chapter 2 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] how one disengages, or dismantles, one’s enmeshment with them, so that it becomes possible to experience the higher level of emotion of equanimity. And not just the reactive emotions of preference and judgment, which we ordinarily use to negotiate our lives. Going back to the question that was posed earlier this evening, this doesn’t […]
