Chapter 6 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] it’s very important to see nothing, which isn’t the same as not seeing anything. So that’s why you keep pushing here. You keep looking, and you keep resting in the looking. That’s the bird. It doesn’t not exist: it is the basis for all experience, samsara and nirvana. No contradiction: this is the Middle […]
Chapter 9 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] soon as you do, expand your field of attention from that object to include everything again. And just keep doing that until you have some sense of resting in the field. [Pause] Now include all the internal material: thoughts and feelings, beliefs, and what have you. Keeping the field of all sensory experience, include […]
Chapter 23 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] wrong Ken: Okay. This is May 25th, right? 24th? March, not May yet, 2008. At least I got that one right. And this is the twenty-third class in the Then and Now series. And we’re talking about the bodhisattva vow. Today we’ll be talking about the ceremony connected with the bodhisattva vow. Now, in […]
Chapter 2 of “Eightfold Path”
[…] back a little bit. Very much connected with effort is our capacity. And we build capacity by exerting ourselves and stretching ourselves in our exertion and then resting. If we just push all the time we wear things out, we wear out and we break down. And that doesn’t matter whether it’s physical, emotional, […]
Chapter 2 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] within a limited area. And then you expand that ability until the frame becomes the limit of your vision and so forth. Either way works. When are resting in all the sensory experience, what happens is that as we expand or open to everything, you’ll find that attention collapses down on an object or […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] of warmth, and then the clinging. Ken: Yes. That’s usually what comes next. [Laughs] Okay, Raquel. Raquel: Before you asked the question, and I was sitting there resting in attention, I felt more sensations. But then when you asked the question and there was, I guess you might call it, a second shift, then it felt […]
Chapter 1 of “Heart Sutra Workshop”
[…] to have all elements of experience, it’s probably better if you have your eyes open, so you aren’t shutting things out. So, start just by sitting and resting with something that we all know: resting in the experience of breathing. Now, generally when we rest in the experience of breathing, the first thing we […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] awake, So you just rest right there. So rather than thinking of practice as holding attention on the breath, holding a certain state, think of it as resting. Resting deeply in your body, deeply in the breath, deeply in the mind and in the heart. And whenever you’re pulled off by a disturbance and […]
Chapter 1 of “Eightfold Path”
[…] a love of reason, because reason seemed to offer a way of transcending the messy world of emotions. And we find that same idea that was present in the early Greeks is also present in this period of Buddhism, where the spiritual path was felt to be a path through philosophy, through logic, etc. […]
Chapter 2 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] is insight practice, which is building capacity at yet another level. The first level is resting, and that’s very, very important to build a capacity in resting; resting in attention. And whether you do it with the breath, or whether you do it with body like a mountain, breath like the wind, mind like the sky, […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] Ken: We work—and it doesn’t really matter what the practice is. The focus of our efforts could be The Four Immeasurables. It could be that way of resting in mahamudra very open and clear for very short periods of time—we went over in the beginning. And we make this effort and we consistently move […]
Chapter 9 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] thought was meditation. Now there’s a lot of—I’m not saying that that’s typical in Zen. I’m just using that as an example. But you find that that resting in dullness is very very prevalent in all traditions of Buddhism. People are warned against it. But because of the emphasis that is put on meditation, […]
Chapter 1 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] is how a lot of people think about practice—don’t concentrate on the breath; that’s what you do to oranges. I want you to think about practice as resting in the experience of breathing. Resting in the experience of breathing. Pardon? Student: I didn’t hear you Ken: Sorry. Resting in the experience of breathing. Okay? […]
Chapter 3 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] Does it come about by trying to have no thoughts? [Laughter] Yeah, so you have a little experience in that. [Laughter] How does it come about? Student: Resting where it’s born. Ken: Pardon? Student: The resting where it’s born. Ken: Yes, and that’s why I’m emphasizing the resting. You’ll notice I’m not emphasizing being […]
Chapter 2 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] a very good thing. And then you just do the same thing. You can walk at natural pace, timing your walking with your breathing, and so you’re resting in attention. Or you can practice the walking meditation as one breath, one step which is a slower form of walking meditation but can be very powerful in […]
