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 […]
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[…] the notion of forgiveness has insinuated itself into contemporary Buddhist thinking disturbs me deeply. Although many may disagree with me, I feel that current interpretations of forgiveness in the Buddhist community undermine the teachings of karma, encourage the cult of victimhood, weaken human relationships, and obfuscate the practice of purification. In contemporary Buddhist settings, […]
Practice Material
Through my awakened intention When strong aversion arises In any being in the six states, May they let it be, without doing anything with it. As awareness finds its own place, May they attain the pristine awareness of clarity.
Practice Material
The happiness of the three worlds disappears in a moment, Like a dewdrop on a blade of grass. The highest level of freedom is one that never changes. Aim for this — this is the practice of a bodhisattva.
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 […]
