Chapter 26 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] itself? Just as the sugatas of former times aroused awakening mind. Because you have the stages, you have the taking of refuge, then you have the seven-section prayer, which is generating the right basis, going through all of those, and then you actually express the vow, and then there’s the rejoicing, and then there’s […]
Chapter 4 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] things are taking place. And so from this perspective, when you’re practicing devotion—even though you may use this kind of language, and I’ll be referring to a prayer in a minute—it’s not like you’re praying or fostering devotion to or for some thing. That would be moving it in the direction of worship. In […]
Chapter 1 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] that comes through Patrul Rinpoche. So, for myself, and I’m speaking quite personally here, the outer one is the Karma Kagyu. Beginning prayers Ken: The Short Vajradhara Prayer is a very wonderful prayer and it represents one of the main streams of transmission from India to Tibet. And it also, in its last four […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] make sure that you are aware of what you are meant to be doing at each stage. We actually start on page 17 here, with the lineage prayer. This is called The Short Vajradhara Prayer in Tibetan the rdo rje ‘chang thung ma (pron. dorjé chang tungma), which is the Tibetan for Vajradhara, thung […]
Chapter 2 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] faith can be used to transform the energies of emotions into the clear, open faith that I just spoke about. And that’s basically how it’s used. The prayer that we did this morning, The Far-Reaching Cry to the Guru, is an expression of that longing. And that’s how such a prayer is used. You […]
Chapter 2 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
Opening prayer Ken: I think we’ll just start straight in and I have a few points that I’d like to talk about. So we’ll just see what happens this evening. We’ll begin with the lineage prayer, followed by the sanctuary or refuge, prayer, etc., as we did last time. May my heart turn to […]
Chapter 12 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] you say the mantra so much that the mantra replaces the subconscious gossip. And now you have a quiet mind. It’s exactly the same in the centering prayer [Jesus Prayer] in the Orthodox tradition: Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me, a sinner. You do exactly the same. That’s the first step in using that […]
Chapter 10 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] could tie them all into one long question or I could … Ken: One by one would be better. Student: Friday you mentioned three different kinds of prayer: petition— Ken: Petitionary. Student: Yeah, and the other one I think was kind of basically mantra-ing where you repeat a mantra over and over again. And […]
Chapter 2 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] about building capacity, and can also be very helpful for developing willingness. All the answers are in here, on page 34. There is a six-line guru yoga prayer, which comes from the Kagyu Ngöndro. I’ve always liked this prayer. It’s a prayer I learned back in the early 1970s, and I’ve done it a […]
Chapter 6 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] from now until I die, and especially for the next year and the next month, and definitely from today until tomorrow [you notice, this is the morning prayer]two aspects of bodhicitta will never be absent from my mind. The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgön Kongtrül, Ken McLeod (Translator), p. 25 Bodhicitta is the Sanskrit […]
Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] And she wasn’t Buddhist at all, but she was interested in meditation. And at one point, one day she said to me, “Can you give me a prayer, Ken?” And I said, “Well, I can, but you probably won’t want it.” She said, “Well no, what’s this prayer? What prayer do you have?” “Well […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] will help you as it did Dervish Yak-Baba.” A third interrupts, “Nonsense! The only way is to persevere in the study and organizing of certain postures, of prayer and good works.” When they had in fact attained Deep Knowledge, the Three Dervishes found that they were powerless to help those whom they had left […]
Chapter 8 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] they made memorization easy, because you often did not have the chance to actually read this because the texts literally weren’t available to you. The Seven Section Prayer Ken: I want to turn to this text. [Unrecorded] I neglected to retitle this. The Seven Branch Prayer, the branch is a literal translation of the […]
Chapter 3 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] can feel the longing. And as we let ourselves feel that longing—and some of us are very afraid to feel it—in the burnt offering in the Seven-Section Prayer, the second to last one: Uprooting patterned existence from its depths (patterned existence is samsara), I pray. Ken: What this line is describing is letting yourself […]
Chapter 4 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] Oh, well, I can do this.” And now you’re using that situation. You note at the bottom of page 21 [p. 23], you have this lovely little prayer, which is really great. If it’s better for me to be ill, I pray for the blessing of illness. If it’s better for me to recover, […]
