Chapter 22 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] is the search for primordial wisdom, pristine awareness, however you want to translate it. And then further down (p. 128)we have a quotation from a very famous prayer (The King of Prayers): Limitless is the extent of space. Limitless is the number of beings. Limitless is the karma and delusions of beings. Such are […]
Chapter 4 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] One of the elders said, “I know what to do. Leave it to me.” So the next day when she was right in the middle of her prayers, he went over to her house and knocked on the door and said, “Mrs. Fong, I would like to speak with you.” There was no response. […]
Chapter 1 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] lineage Ken: A great source of power and strength in the Buddhist tradition, in my mind, is the emphasis on lineage. In the Kagyu tradition, the lineage prayer, which is part of the preliminary practices, has 43 or 44 teachers in it. So it’s quite a long list now. And it goes back to […]
Chapter 1 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] prayers. I’ll say more about these later, but you can just start memorizing, and do them every morning and every evening on your own. There’s a lineage prayer, which I will go over in the course of the retreat. Then there are the prayers that we will use at the beginning and end of […]
Chapter 4 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] very deep form of protection. Now, this is a technique that is not exclusive to Buddhism at all. Some of you may have heard of the Jesus Prayer: “Oh Lord Jesus have mercy upon on me, a sinner.” I don’t know the Greek for it, but in the Orthodox church, the Jesus Prayer serves […]
Chapter 9 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] great disciples. So when you read down in the next verse, you have the four great and eight lesser lineages. You see, this also in the Vajradhara prayer. These are four Kagyu lineages coming from Gampopa and then the eight minor ones coming from Phagmo Drupa. Some of those are still extant today. The […]
Chapter 4 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] or these big pots with the food. You’d take out your bowl and it would be ladled out and you’d cover it up. And then after the prayer service then you’d go back and eat your lunch. That’s why all Tibetan monks carry around these bowls, wooden bowls with lids. And in the evening […]
Chapter 3 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] the decibel level of the prayers. So finally he knocked very, very loudly and said, “Mrs. Fong, I really must speak with you. Please come down.” The prayer stopped. There was the sound of a mala or rosary being slammed on the table. Stomp, stomp, stomp. The door was thrown open, and Mrs. Fong […]
Chapter 4 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] start doing things. That’s practice. And as we learn and develop our practice, that practice in turn, becomes our path in life. [The second line of the prayer is: Let practice become a path] One of the big shifts in me was … because of my training in the Tibetan tradition, this notion of […]
Chapter 3 of “Death: Friend or Foe?”
[…] that all my past misdemeanors are deeply regretted.” “What chance do you want?” asked the Angel. “If I could be spared the time to perform the five prayers before my death,” sighed Nasrudin, “I’m sure I would go peacefully on my way.” “Very well,” replied the Angel, “I will return this time tomorrow when […]
Chapter 6 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] an unceasing play, Being nothing at all, yet arising as anything, Give me the energy to know that samsara and nirvana are not separate. The Short Vajradhara Prayer All of us beginning with our enemies that provoke anger, impediments that generate harm, conditions that cause interruptions, obsessions with mortality, local disturbances, physical disturbances, and […]
Chapter 4 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
The short Vajradhara Prayer Ken: No, we will do it this way. Great Vajradhara, Tilo, Naro, Marpa, Mila, Lord Gampopa, Dusum Chenpa, totally aware Karmapa, Holders of the four great and eight lesser lineages, Masters of the profound path of mahamudra, The Instruction Lineages of Dakpo, the peerless protector of beings, Trikung, Taklung, Tsalpa […]
Chapter 2 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] where Buddha attained enlightenment, and it is probably the central Buddhist pilgrimage place in India. So he held the seat at Bodhgaya, and there was a big prayer festival, and people came from all over the place. And in Atisha’s tent this Vajrayana practitioner appeared, Maitripa, making love with his consort. And this outraged […]
Chapter 15 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] with, no I think it was the local king—because she came from the region called Lab—who really called her Labkyi Drönma, The Lamp of Lab. Now, that prayer song was written by Karma Chakmé, who was an eighteenth century teacher, maybe seventeenth, in the Kagyu-Nyingma tradition. Student: He wrote some commentaries on [unclear]? Ken: […]
Chapter 25 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] you? From the bodhisattva ceremonies we’ve done? The short one, the daily … Julia: The short one? Ken: Yeah. Julia: The short one is also in the prayer book. Ken: Yeah. Does everybody have a copy of that? [Student reciting prayer]. Yep. You got it. It’s not in those prayer books. It’s in the […]