Chapter 2 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] put up there up there was for you to think about is, What is the question for which buddha nature is the answer? And I’d be interested in hearing any reflections that any of you may have had. What is the question for which buddha nature is an answer? Anybody? Pat. Pat: Well, maybe […]
Chapter 9 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] other person has some questions, right? Good. And then we’ll go from there. A few years ago, I attended a panel discussion on the role of religion in a global society at USC. And, a professor of Islam, from Loyola, Marymount, was on the panel, and his mentor in theology was a Presbyterian minister […]
Chapter 1 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] Not a lot because frankly, I don’t know a lot, but there are a few bits and pieces that I’ve learned from various sources. Tokmé Zongpo lived in the 13th and 14th centuries in Tibet. This is approximately 200 years after the New Translation school started, which was the middle of the 11th century […]
Chapter 4 of “Finding the Way”
[…] one you’ve chosen, while continuing to experience this? Just explore that. If you’ve chosen the physical sensation of pressure in your body or feel of your hand resting on your knee, how much more can I experience? Tactilely. If you’ve chosen a visual experience, visual sensation, such as the color of a person’s clothing […]
Chapter 9 of “A Trackless Path II”
The use of metaphor in Buddhism Ken: Monday August 9th, A Trackless Path II, morning session. This morning I thought it might be helpful to talk about metaphors. This evening I’m going to take a detailed look at the first part of the Ganges Mahamudra, which is on page 19. And the first thing that […]
Chapter 3 of “Stalking Death”
A sense of just experiencing Ken: Yesterday we talked about change. Everything changes; nothing stays the same. And in your meditation, we talked about change in the world of sensory experience, change in the experience of the body, and change in our sense of ourselves, our relationship with the world, our philosophies, views, values […]
Chapter 7 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] us to open more deeply. Another is the primary practice, which works both broadly and deeply. Student: Did you give us the primary? Ken: I gave it in previous retreats and we’ll be putting something up on the web fairly soon. I’ve been working with a group of volunteers. Laura’s been working with me […]
Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Surviving Stressful Times”
[…] simple formulations which allows you to go as deep as you wish into your own experience. So, you know, you have a dispute with your partner, and in that situation it is almost always you want to say, “You, you, you, you!” But you ask this question, “How can I experience having had this […]
Chapter 2 of “Death: Friend or Foe?”
[…] nothing stays the same Ken: The theme that we’re working with right now is Everything changes, nothing stays the same. And one of the more famous poems in English on this theme is by Percy Bysshe Shelley called Ozymandias. A sonnet that he wrote: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] is by the tenth Trungpa Rinpoche. [Pause] He says: Practice this very, very sincerely as an aspect of secret behavior which is used to augment one’s experience in meditation that fuses the path of means and wisdom. Know that this is the true purpose of chö. If you don’t do it this way and […]
Chapter 3 of “Living Awake: Money and Value”
[…] awareness. When you start hitting that, so you have mindfulness and awareness and they’re present and in balance, then insight begins to arise. When you balance the resting quality of shamatha and the seeing quality of insight, then true knowing, natural knowing, becomes accessible. So we can look at Buddhist practice as a way […]
Chapter 7 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] call it, which is the heart of this practice. Questions, or I can give you another story. [Unrecorded] No, it’s just the way thangkas are painted. He’s resting on a lotus. You have lotus, moon, and he’s sitting on that. Valuable and worthless Ken: A certain king one day called a counselor to him […]
Chapter 15 of “A Trackless Path II”
About the retreat interviews Ken: Thursday, August 12th, A Trackless Path II, morning session. That’s three days in a row I haven’t said April. The last couple of days, we’ve been focusing on some of the subtle technical aspects of practice, coming out of The Wisdom Experience of Ever-present Good in the Ganges Mahamudra. […]
Chapter 2 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] themes and ideas that I want to interweave into our discussions, which I hope will help you to understand and possibly clarify what one is actually doing in practicing Buddhism and practicing meditation. Because I find there is actually quite a lot of confusion about that. We’re here for the next five days. We’ll […]
Chapter 2 of “Learning from the Lives of Lineage Holders”
Niguma’s story Ken: Okay, the biographies of the Shangpa masters—a number of them anyway—have been translated and published in this book Like An Illusion. The translations are okay. They’re not great, but they’re fine and this is the translation of the same text that I studied in retreat which had the biographies. It’s the […]
