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 16 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] at the same time? And you can see how it invites you into an exploration. What are you doing in your body? What emotional posture are you taking? What if you change that? What cognitive posture, frame or however? What if that changes? And it becomes an exploration. Now, over the next few days, […]
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 9 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] of her. Then I was a single mother with three children. Then they grew up and went away, and then the old people got old and needed care taking. So I learned early on to be the do-gooder. And I identified everything with this, being that do-gooder. And I manipulated my world righteously as a do-gooder. […]
Chapter 16 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] these main themes. “Everything changes, is there anything which doesn’t change?” I think that was the first question. As this went around this way, because people were taking in and really listening to the questions and the responses, there was a great deal of attention in both what was said and how it was […]
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 […]