[…] spontaneously wouldn’t it? Without ever formulating a sense of person. You follow? So one doesn’t lose functionality here. But one is able to act from direct perception, direct knowing, without relying on conceptual knowing. “Oh, someone’s fallen down and I’m going to help them up.” You feel how different that is? Student: [Unclear] Ken: Right. […]

[…] trying to stretch. You’re just trying to twist. So the way I think of a twist is one end of you is either stationary or going one direction while the other end goes the other. Okay. Like wringing out a towel. So for instance, a lot of us have trouble with confrontations, but we […]

[…] had one, Elena? Elena: I found one of the significant things was limitations of the questions as we were engaging. I would’ve preferred to follow some other direction and go deep, what I feel is deep. So, that was limiting. But I was also impressed by my partner’s willingness to stay with these difficult […]

[…] quiet the mind?” Well, in Buddhist circles it would be, like “Well, of course you do!” But the question invites a wonderful exploration in potentially several different directions. One direction is, “Okay, I’ve heard it’s good to quiet the mind. Does that have any place in my life?” And it brings you in touch […]

[…] forth—mentioned that you were curious or felt you had a need for power or some relationship with power. Power is not a subject that is discussed very directly, very often. And there are very definite reasons for this. One of them is that in institutional settings power is rarely discussed because it tends to […]