Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] how this was for you? Yeah. So it may even intensify the dream-like quality. Okay. The version I just gave you here is sometimes known as the primary practice. Because it actually works from the ecstatic practice, but it actually includes the essential points of both mahamudra and dzogchen all in one very simple practice. […]
Chapter 4 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] very easy to do that. Yes, Steve. Steve: Again, in the practice you gave us, there were stages where we brought in more … Ken: That’s the primary practice, going through those stages? Yeah. Narrow or wider focus? Steve: I was just thinking, as you were talking about it. When you’re engaged in an activity—a […]
Chapter 2 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] Which is what a lot of people experience with pointing out instructions. “What are you pointing to? I don’t see anything?” Okay? Anything else? All right. The primary practice, a description Ken: A couple of things for this evening. Let me introduce you to a practice which is a complete practice in its own right […]
Chapter 6 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] There are other ways. Those of you are at the Power and Presence retreat last fall. Yeah, it was a year ago. That’s right. I taught the primary practice. That’s another method. There are many, many other methods, but they all involve some form of opening. And so you open to everything you experience, and […]
Chapter 6 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] and now I see. Ken: Okay. So are you okay with this? Joy: experiencing the world celebrating my efforts Joe: Yes, one final thing. When I’m doing primary practice, I suppose what I was looking for when trying to just experience everything I’m experiencing, and drop the distinction between inside and outside—never mind. Ken: Oh. […]
Chapter 3 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
Experiences with the primary practice Ken: I’d like to start off this evening with any questions or experiences you had with the tools that I presented to you yesterday. Yes? Student: I really appreciate you adding a dimension of the primary practice of opening your heart to the experience. It adds a whole other dimension […]
Chapter 8 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] looked at me and said, “Well, those practices worked for you, Ken. They never worked for me.” And it’s true, he didn’t do those at all. His primary practice was mahamudra. And that’s why he was teaching and helping people do this. Because he wanted to get into the direct experience of mind. Because that’s […]
Chapter 1 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] If you’re going to sleep, form the intention of going to sleep, and go to sleep. So this is being in one thing completely. That’s your exercise. The primary practice Ken: The awareness practice I will also introduce this evening—many of you had this before—it goes by the name of the primary practice. And it is […]
Chapter 3 of “A Trackless Path I”
Emotional material Student: So in doing the primary practice, is it important to keep four distinct steps as you practice? For example, when you open to the field, it feels to me like my heart just wants to open—but it’s an important thing to sort of keep those in stages? Ken: What happens to the […]
Chapter 2 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] that’s another subject. Of course, when you actually experience that rubber band breaking, it’s a little bit scary, but it’s kind of interesting. Opening the mind: the primary practice Ken: Third one: opening the mind. Well, many of you are familiar with this one too, you know this as the primary practice. If you’ve used […]
Chapter 5 of “Power and Presence”
Expanding the visual field in the primary practice Jeff: So, as I sat in the corner, listening to what a lot of you had to say in interviews yesterday, I thought it might be good to point out that the approach to primary practice we went over the other morning, it’s just one approach. We […]
Chapter 2 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] so forth and not be killed by them, not be driven off by them, so the princess stays awake. That’s presence. Last night, I gave you the primary practice which is a practice of the genre called direct awareness. It moves you directly into awareness and presence. It’s a simple practice. It does the job. […]
Chapter 5 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] body and breath and mind are resting, then ask the question, “What is mind?” This is very equivalent to asking the question, “What experiences this?” in the primary practice that I taught a few days ago. When you ask this question, number one, do not try to answer it, because if you do, you immediately […]
Chapter 6 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] you a number of ways of looking, a number of tools how to raise the level of energy, which can be done through guru yoga, or the primary practice, or other methods. And the purpose of raising the energy is so that you can stay in the looking without the attention being disrupted by the […]
Chapter 1 of “Heart Sutra Workshop”
[…] many of you would like to know this absorption? Oh, you know this absorption, do you? Oh, good. So, let’s spend a few minutes. Profound radiance: the primary practice Ken: Now, if you are going to have all elements of experience, it’s probably better if you have your eyes open, so you aren’t shutting things […]
