Chapter 5 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] life Ken: This morning I talked a little bit about compassion and emptiness. And I gave you the technique of working with a kind of five-step process, taking and sending, which actually leads to emptiness. Take in the pain; open to your reactions to the pain; touch happiness within yourself and send it to the other; […]
Chapter 7 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
Ethics in the service of waking up Ken: Today we begin the discussion of ethics associated with taking and sending. Now, there are a couple of points that are probably worth noting about ethics in general and Buddhist ethics in particular. And maybe a few other things too. I think in the larger picture the whole […]
Chapter 12 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] talk about a lot, is also an implicit energy transformation practice. If you approach the four immeasurables the right way, they are an energy transformation practice. Even taking and sending, in a subtle way, is an energy transformation practice. And necessary in order to raise … and you also have in the Theravadan tradition the jhanas […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] transformed into clarity. It just happens. Otherwise, you just experience it. And one of the techniques for helping to experience the anger as completely as possible is taking and sending. Taking and sending, this practice where you think, “May all the anger of everybody in the world come into mine. May they be free of anger. […]
Chapter 6 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] because A summary of the essential instructions: Train in the five forces, is a list. Now, it’s a list of mind training instructions, not oriented exclusively to taking and sending, which is one form of mind training. It’s operating at a higher level, or a more general level. And this is the purpose of this list, […]
Chapter 25 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] is to go through this or go through other descriptions of the bodhisattva vow, study it, come to appreciate it very deeply. Do meditation on compassion or taking and sending—some of these practices—so you feel some very definite compassion. You form a connection with that. It’s not just an intellectual idea but you form an emotional […]
Chapter 4 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] if everything you do, you do with your total attention, completely in the here and now and there’s nothing left. What would life be like that way? Taking and sending Ken: Now I want to move on to the second of the three marks, which is suffering, or a different way of looking at—a slightly different […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] go down to the pub and have a drink?” And you end up buddies, so you’ve changed it. The principle practice that you have for that is taking and sending. And in any experience of negativity, there is a sense of separation and alienation. And in taking and sending you actually bridge that. But if you […]
Chapter 6 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
Taking and sending while walking Ken: Wobbly, yes. That’s a symptom of a long habituation of walking without attention. Others. Elizabeth. Elizabeth: [Unclear] Ken: Walking meditation is great for trying to get somewhere, isn’t it? “I’m going to get there. I’m going to get there.” Any other comments? Janneke. Janneke: [Unclear] Ken: A little easier […]
Chapter 3 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
Applying taking and sending to all experience Ken: A couple of people haven’t come yet. So let’s start with any questions arising from your practice or from any of the teachings, if there are any questions. Yes, Mark. Mark: [Unclear] Ken: Yes. That’s right. [Laughs] And your question is? Am I going to suffocate? Mark: [Unclear] […]
Chapter 4 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] the Tibetan tradition, there’s a great deal of emphasis on it, but it’s almost always rendered in English as the path. So, I translated a book on taking and sending, Mahayana mind training. And the title of the book in its English translation was The Great Path of Awakening. Now, what if you changed the article […]
Chapter 6 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] into the world. In a couple of weeks, many of you are coming to the spring retreat, which is on mind training. One way of looking at taking and sending—mahayana mind training—is that it combines all the four immeasurables into a very simple breath-based practice. So that’s what we’re going to be looking at in taking […]
Chapter 14 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] be for very good reasons, it may be too painful, it may be too horrific. And one of the ways that I’ve suggested is people work with taking and sending, and this is an internal method you don’t find … at least I haven’t found this anywhere stated explicitly in classical literature. And several of you […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] with anger. Find a method that works for you Ken: In the three-year retreat, first three-year retreat, when we got to the part of the retreat on taking and sending—and Rinpoche gave us two months on taking and sending—I did two weeks on loving-kindness and two weeks on compassion. Just the straight traditional meditations that you […]
Chapter 6 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] put others first? Even if, even if, even if, even if … Ken: Well, you’re quite right about the structure. The first one’s a general comment on taking and sending, and next six are: this is what it looks like. Yeah. Okay. Steve? Steve: One of the things I thought about was that, we react to […]