Chapter 4 of “Monsters under the Bed”
[…] Student: Can you tell us what page number where we can find it? Ken: Page 236. [Wake Up To Your Life] Student: Thank you. Ken: It’s a five-step process, and it’s the same for each realm. You bring up a particular realm, and you enter and open to the experience of that realm. So, […]
Chapter 5 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
Descriptions of 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 […]
Chapter 1 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] is one of the advanced awareness practices in the Tibetan tradition. And again, it’s very much in the same vein. Now, Thich Naht Hahn’s practice is a five-step practice, the dzogchen practice is a five-step practice, and so I’m going to be talking about the taking and sending as a five- step practice too. So […]
Chapter 2 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] as the primary practice. If you’ve used that terminology before, it comes from a friend of mine. In this one, it’s actually a four-step process or a five-step, depending on how you want to count. I can just run through it very quickly with you. Pick an object in front of you in your […]
Chapter 8 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] just what is, with all of the discomforts and inconveniences of that. Just relating to what is, not what we want to be, but what is. A five-step practice for working with difficult feelings Ken: So, in your meditation practice I’d like you to work with this technique this morning. I’m sure all of you […]
Chapter 2 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] is, “How can I experience this and be at peace at the same time?” [Pause] Art: Okay, okay. Ken: Okay? Art: Is this somewhat similar to that Five-Step Process that we had worked on about— Ken: Yes. The Five-Step Process is a very specific method for developing the capacity to experience what is arising […]
Chapter 9 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] to meditation. I think we just have time to do two sessions before we close at five. Okay, I want you to continue the practice of the five-step process, so that you’re resting in the experience of the difficult feelings in your patterns. Now is anybody short on difficult feelings? Everybody’s got material to […]
Chapter 2 of “Anything is Possible”
[…] very gently. So if you can only open to one thousandth of it, that’s what you do. Thich Nhat Hanh has a technique for this. It’s a five-step process, which consists of holding that part, tenderly in attention, and even starting with just a very, very small amount of it so that you gradually […]
Chapter 7 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] is showing up. The second step is opening to what you experience. And I said there were several techniques which could be used for that. One’s the five-step practice, which allows us to open more deeply. Another is the primary practice, which works both broadly and deeply. Student: Did you give us the primary? Ken: […]
