[…] Buddhism and practicing it, is the order of these lists is often important. The six perfections are in a certain order for a certain reason. The four immeasurables can be ordered in three different ways, and each one of them embodies a certain approach. And I talked about that in the chapter on the […]

[…] joy, but it didn’t feel like it was yours. Okay. What you’re experiencing there is the immeasurable joy. And sort of my favorite term for the four immeasurables, these are impersonal emotions. They’re higher emotions because they are not associated with a sense of self. That’s why they’re impersonal. That doesn’t mean that they’re […]

[…] just those two thing, so you actually develop loving-kindness and compassion. A number of people here were with me in Colorado Springs, where we did the four immeasurables over a whole weekend. And that was a rushed course. Yeah Gail, you were there. But when I am working with people in Los Angeles, we […]

[…] of doing good, you can see pretty clearly that almost all of them will be in some way an expression of one or other of the four immeasurables. Art: Oh, okay. Ken: Okay? So it’s a way of giving expression to the four immeasurables. And, one of the themes I’ve been—I’m sure some of […]

[…] through those experiences, and you do that through meditations such as death and impermanence, and karma, and taking and sending, and the development of compassion, the four immeasurables, all of those kinds of things. Then another thing that we do is a lot of energy transformation exercises, raise the level of energy, so that […]

Niguma’s story Ken: Okay, the biographies of the Shangpa masters—a number of them anyway—have been translated and published in this book Like An Illusion. The translations are okay. They’re not great, but they’re fine and this is the translation of the same text that I studied in retreat which had the biographies. It’s the English […]

[…] feeling of joy and awe. And I think that’s compassion. Ken: Okay. Anybody else? Student: I attended a retreat last month and it was on the four immeasurables. And the teacher during that mentioned cultivating versus uncovering. And that was a mindblower to me. So during the meditation today, I found a little space […]

[…] this gong here, will be struck three times, slowly. And then you do the refuge and awakening mind on page seven. No, sorry, refuge and the four immeasurables on page 16, together. Whoever’s here for the meditation will read that together and at the completion of that, the small meditation bell is rung three […]

[…] own experience all the time. And I find that quite helpful as an aspiration to set at the beginning of practice sessions. The last one, The Four Immeasurables, you’re all familiar with so I won’t go over that. Ask yourself why Ken: Now in terms of the actual practice that you do; I’m going […]