[…] love very much, when we’re angry, we see them as someone we hate and have to fight. So, the hell realm–we have all the imagery of the six realms–it shows people just fighting, and being assaulted with weapons, and burning up. Anger is hot, and so forth. Hate is cold, so you have the cold […]

[…] first, result, which is called “the fully ripened result,” or “the full maturation result,” refers to how your projections of the world, i.e. which one of the six realms arises from that action. So if you take lying for instance—we will stay with that one—we usually lie because we want something or we feel we […]

[…] Description of the Tibetan cosmology Ken: In the Tibetan tradition there’s a very elaborate cosmology and one of the ways it’s described is in terms of the six realms, the hell realm, hungry ghost realm, animal realm, human realm, titan realm, god realm. Like most cosmologies, this is a very precise map of human psychology. […]

[…] be thought and rethought. And in particular the description of the conditions is based very, very heavily on a certain cosmology. That is, the cosmology of the six realms. Hell realm, hungry ghosts, animal, human, titan and gods. And many layers of god realms, with two very different kinds of gods: the gods who have […]

[…] think this material is so valuable most Buddhist meditations don’t deal with this at all. They deal with another layer on top of this, which is the six realms—which is also part of chapter six—like the anger, greed, instinct, desire, jealousy and pride. And they are very, very good meditations that are very helpful. But […]

[…] in chö. There are many myths and superstitions around transference in general. This one is very, very clear in its intention and meaning. You move through the six realms. And through the power of attention, through the growing power of attention, you become free, transforming the energy and confusion of the six realms into attention […]

[…] Gampopa is saying here is, we struggle in life because we don’t know what we are. Is this making a little more sense now? Confusion and the six realms Ken: Okay, let’s continue. How does this confusion operate? It operates through the activities and experiences of the six realms of migrators. The Jewel Ornament of […]

[…] protectors and dakinis. And then another wave of dakinis comes out of your heart, picks up more elixir and feeds it to all sentient beings in all six realms, freeing them from all of the suffering there. And then still another wave comes up and feeds it to all of the karmic collectors and all […]

[…] experienced weren’t outer friends, but the inner friends, the habituated patterns. Ken: That’s very good. Robert: And to me, each of those friends were one of the six realms. And so, where was the attachment to each of those realms? Where was the aversion? Where was the indifference? Ken: And where was the seduction? Yeah, […]

[…] in that world is that most of the time we aren’t relating it to that world; we’re relating to it as the projected world, that is, the six realms. What’s the problem with that? Well, they’re all, none of them are very much fun. Some of them are more fun than the others, but none […]

[…] sufficiently? Okay. So this is a whole other meditation in which you’re using this extremely vivid imagery. And you can use any of the imagery of the six realms. But here they’re presented very succinctly. If my mother was in a place where she suffered from thirst or hunger. Tortured by sickness, fever, fear and […]

[…] we experience the world under the influence of reactivity. It’s all of the reactions going on, that’s what samsara is. I mean, you’ve all heard about the six realms, and going around form birth after birth. But what it really is like, from my point of view, is, it’s not about future lives and past […]

[…] world. Okay? So to review, they are, the full ripening—that’s the traditional term—of the projection of the reactive emotion that’s driving the action. That’s one of the six realms: hungry ghost realm, hell realm, etc., etc., and we’ll go into more of those later. Then there’s the predisposition which has developed in you, that’s the […]

[…] which you didn’t cover explicitly, is that when you regard money as the problem or money as the issue, you are inevitably operating in one of the six realms. Frequently, it will be the hungry ghost realm. But it isn’t necessarily. It may very well be the god realm. It can be any of the […]

[…] number of emotions like depression, things like that. When that emotion is up, you’re necessarily experiencing the world through the filter of the emotion. This is the six realms, so you experience everything is against you. And just saying, “The trouble is I believe my feelings,” just saying that wakes something up. Okay, this is […]