[…] emotion are the emotions that are organized around and defend a sense of self. These are ones you’re all familiar with—the typical list in Tibetan with the six realms—so anger, greed or neediness. I think neediness actually is a better translation for greed. Most people don’t relate to being greedy, but a lot of people […]

[…] something like, well, it’s subsumed in the preta realm, or it’s subsumed in the god realm ’cause those are ways that it’s subsumed when you take the six realms to five. But I don’t know why they didn’t put it here. So, when you think of this list this way, what happens in you? The […]

[…] way you can experience the world is through these very, very narrow windows, where everything does not look very nice. And those narrow windows are called the six realms: hungry ghost realm, hell realm, animal realm, human realm, titan realm, god realm. You know, they’re very, very narrow. Yes? The four forces: regret, reliance, remedy, […]

[…] just liked it so much. There’s all of this extraordinarily flowery language and metaphorical language etc., etc. It’s describing how we actually experience things. It’s what the six realms are describing. So as you’ve heard many many times, your own mind is buddha. Know it that way right now. How do you do that? You […]

[…] just love, not so good. He only lists these three, but you could say if your giving is based on any of the reactive emotions of the six realms, then it just is a reinforcement of those realms. So, those are impure motivations and then— Joe: I have a question about one of the impure […]

[…] desired world one will not be affected by its faults.” Well, in the prayer that we do at the beginning we say, “Suffering is present in all six realms, may I not be born in those states.” Now in mythic vocabulary you regard the six states—the six kinds of beings—as actual places where one will […]

[…] told him to practice, he never missed a day. He just, “I’ll do that” and that was it. So I introduced him at some point to the six realms—hell realm, hungry ghost realm, animal realm, human, titan, and god. He looked these over. He said, “Mmm.” And he knew he had a lot of anger […]

[…] and disdain. These are the monsters that haunt you. Yes, Robert? Robert: What happened to the sixth emotion? Ken: Oh. They have different lists. There are the six realms and the six reactive emotions and then other times people prefer five so they just drop one—it’s usually greed or pride or something. To these, I […]

[…] we know what is right. And then how do we know what to do? Well, this is a possible answer. Here again, are the teachings on the six realms. The six realms describe how the world appears to us when we are in the grip of reactive emotions. In this case, those projections lead us […]

[…] being free of generating karmic traits, which are going to cause suffering in the future, is to live without shame. And the next stanza is about the six realms. The realms projected by the emotional states: things like anger, and pride and jealousy and so forth. So one, it says, not to take birth in […]

[…] right. That’s fairly self-explanatory now isn’t it? Would you agree? You have to translate Guenther into English. What is samsara? Ken: Now, what is samsara? It’s the six realms of existence, which means it’s living in one or more of the worlds which are projected by reactive emotions. Well, when you’re in the grip of […]

[…] is called samsara; and we think we know what we’re doing all the time. You see, it’s a lot worse than you thought. [Laughter] These are the six realms. You know, we can divide them up very nicely, you see, just like the traditional diagram. And this is the god’s realm, you know… Student: [Unclear] […]

[…] all of these negative things, very clearly. Why? Because through the practice, they know them intimately. One of my students, when he was first introduced to the six realms, said, “Yeah, I can relate to the titan realm, and the hell realm; I’ve got a lot of anger, I’m competitive. But I don’t think I […]