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[…] wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without hope? The prospect seemed unimaginable. A chill crept down my […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] prejudice or preference. So there’s no judgment, you’re just there with the other person. And I could talk for a long, long time about those. Devotion or faith Ken: The fifth is devotion or faith. Actually, maybe you can make two there, they’re slightly different. A friend and colleague of mine, Sharon Salzberg, wrote […]
Chapter 2 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] human, in the country where the dharma exists, with one’s senses and intelligence intact, without karmic compulsions to commit evil deeds, is the person able to have faith in the three jewels.” Well, this is simply a logical sequence. No dharma, or no buddha … Oh, sorry, this is that one. The basis is […]
Chapter 8 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] do is to focus on the guru practice, or the yidam practice whichever speaks to you most powerfully. Within the framework of guru practice, there is the faith of confidence, the faith of longing, and the faith of clear, open appreciation. These are very intertwined, but in my conversations with you, I also know […]
Chapter 16 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] talking about bodhicitta, that naturally arises out of those deeper states. But it seems like some of these in the beginning, you just have to take as faith or devotion, you know what I mean … Ken: Well, I think you’re being a little unkind. Susan: Oh? Ken: Most of you here—and I know […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] in essence being your teacher and in form manifesting as Chenrezi. And the reason for that, at least in Tibetan culture, is that people always had great faith in their teacher, and this is a way of allowing them to feel that intensity of faith. The faith has an energy in it. All of […]
Chapter 1 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] this in a minute—you’re sound in body and mind, you weren’t swept away by bad karma—although there’s some karma momentum available to you—you have some propensity for faith or confidence. Now, again these were originally qualities of human existence because you could have been born as an animal, that put you out of the […]
Chapter 5 of “Finding the Way”
[…] few times, willingness to experience whatever’s there. And as Rivita so eloquently pointed out everything that’s there. And courage, what would that be like? Student: What would faith look like on the other end? Faith and meditation. But in this adventure, what would faith look like? Ken: What would it look like to you? […]
Chapter 7 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] Don’t allow three things to weaken. [Take care to prevent three kinds of damage. 2005 ed.] The Great Path of Awakening, p. 40 The three things are: faith, enthusiasm, and ethics. Now, there are many, many dimensions to faith, but basically in this context—and I’ll be giving a little different commentary on this later—it’s […]
Chapter 8 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] Why am I blocking that out?” There’s a constant process of exploration here. This is why in Buddhism one is encouraged not to take the teachings on faith and just blindly accept them. They have to be tested in every possible way in your own experience so that you find that they actually work […]
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[…] is an appropriate response to the trust others have placed in one. In the case of Unfettered Mind, the basis for trust is the pursuit in good faith of a path of awakening. In Unfettered Mind’s approach to spiritual awakening, two fundamental principles are balance and personal responsibility. Balance is the union of knowing […]
Chapter 7 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] much further than that. “Oh, there’s an emotion, and it’s arising in awakened compassion.” It changes then, like a hurricane in the sky. And the element of faith or confidence is just that—nothing that arises can alter, change … You heard me talking about the Vajrayana. The essence of human spirituality has the capacity […]
Chapter 6 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] read the sutra. And when you do, it happens. And by going through this again and again, particularly with a clear intention and more than a little faith, that is, you’re willing to embrace this process. You’re willing to meet the unknown, which is what I feel faith is in the end. And this […]
Chapter 14 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] a few tools very, very deeply. Now, there are a number of tools which have overall applicability. For that, I offer for your consideration doing what’s next: faith or loving-kindness, impermanence, and compassion. Now any one of those tools is actually all you need. Yes? Student: Doing what? Ken: Doing what’s next. Your awareness. […]
Chapter 12 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] that. What do you see? Student: [Unclear] Ken: Yes, in that sense. I would say in that sense and in also one other. The primary definition of faith that I work with is, faith is the willingness to open to whatever arises in experience. And here there has been an opening, or an insight, […]