Chapter 3 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 2 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 15 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 5 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 2 of “Learning from the Lives of Lineage Holders”
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 […]
Chapter 1 of “Ideology & Wisdom”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 1 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 1 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] 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 […]
Chapter 10 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
Events that shatter our illusions about life Ken: One of the first aspects of an event such as the tsunami in Southeast Asia is the suddenness and the unexpectedness of it. If you read any of the accounts, for most people, there was just no warning. There was suddenly a wall of water, I think […]
Chapter 4 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] people interpret them in this way, that what you should be trying to do is control what you feel. For instance, when we get into the four immeasurables, people think, “Oh, I’m meant to be feeling this, and I’m meant to be feeling that.” But that’s not how it works. By experiencing your own […]
Chapter 5 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] you from resting in experience. So in a very broad sense, purification practices. All the things on death and impermanence, the five dakinis, karma and the four immeasurables, yidam practice, etc., etc., that all falls into that category. That as some people have described in their experience, you meet feeling, you experience it completely, […]
Chapter 4 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
The three levels of chö Ken: Saraha, one of the great Indian masters about the third century—I like his version. Nagarjuna said the same thing, but not quite as elegantly as Saraha. Saraha said, “People who believe in reality are stupid like cows, but people who believe in emptiness are even stupider.” It’s actually incurable […]
Chapter 4 of “Power and Presence”
[…] what we’re doing here, which is not being glib. It’s on some level, you know that you’re not doing something, or you didn’t get to the four immeasurables retreat. And that’s a very good question. I mean it somehow has to be brought to your attention. Student: But can I ask at another level? […]
Chapter 9 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] have the two truths. Then you have the three poisons, and the three jewels, and the three realms, all kinds of threes. And then you have four immeasurables, and four elements, and the five skandas. I mean, there’s so many of so many. I used to keep a book of all the lists, beause […]
Chapter 7 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] would you say is attachment? Student: The one that wants to have him around. Ken: Yeah. In the Theravadan tradition, there’s a wonderful explanation of the four immeasurables: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. And it is presented in terms of parenting. Loving-kindness is the wish that your son be healthy and strong, be fully […]