Chapter 6 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] five themes that are present in the first three or four chapters, and then they revisit those themes again and again, basically driving the point home. Interrupting reactive patterns Ken: Okay, the faculties: Subhuti, what do you think? Does the thus come have physical sight? Now when you come across something like the five eyes, […]
Chapter 14 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] in the three problems. [Learn to meet three challenges, 2005 ed.] The Great Path of Awakening, p. 39 We discussed this in detail earlier. Recognition of a reactive pattern, developing a practice to work on it, and cutting through. I gave the one method of recognizing reactive patterns: observing what you don’t notice, observing what […]
Chapter 12 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] cannot be present if you do not know your intention. What are you there for? A very useful method of uncovering the emotion that is driving a reactive pattern is to ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” You ask, “Why am I working at this job?” “Well, to earn money.” “Well, why am I […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] I have contributed to it. And at least up to this point, the way I contributed to it has always been due to the operation of some reactive pattern in me, which I may not have been aware of at the time. But when everything collapses and it’s just a big mess, then I get […]
Chapter 1 of “Eightfold Path”
[…] insistence. Insistence. It has to be this way! Whenever the internal vocabulary is, “has to, must do, always, never,” very, very good chance that there’s a reaction, a reactive pattern operating. Well it just has to be this way! I mean, one person I was reading recently said, Belief is where we stop thinking. This is […]
Chapter 3 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] we take that attitude to life we have handed over our life to others, completely. Mind-killing Ken: So I just wanted to revisit those because our own reactive patterns and many forces in our society engage in an activity which a friend of mine called mind-killing, which is a very strong term but he likes […]
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[…] between two people means that they relate to each other. Before two people can relate to each other, they must remove the principal obstacles to relationship — reactive patterns. For present purposes, the reactive patterns are judgement, closing down, contraction, and feeling deficient. These four reactive patterns prevent us from relating to the other person […]
Chapter 6 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] a manifestation of awakened mind, which is generally known as a yidam or deity, is to shift the basis of the organization of our personality from habituated reactive patterns to this expression of open, clear awareness, which is the unity of compassion and emptiness. All of the deities are the union of compassion and emptiness. […]
Chapter 7 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] any emotions. That’s not the point. We live, we breathe, we have thoughts, we have emotions. Very broadly speaking there are two kinds of emotions: there are reactive emotions and emotions which are responses. The reactive emotions are organized around a sense of self. There are things like attraction, aversion, preference, indifference, pride, jealousy, […]
Chapter 6 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] goodness or generate well-being in your life you naturally generate a sense of balance, you naturally generate the conditions where you are more responsive, more open, less reactive, more empathetic, and so forth. And you generate an environment in which good things can happen. So a very important part of practice is learning how […]
Chapter 1 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] specific transformation process Ken: The structure of each of those meditations is very similar. You evoke presence of the dakini. Invite transformation. Experience the illumination of ones reactive patterns or reactive chains. The transformation comes through a higher level of attention. And then the flavour or the gesture would be pristine awareness. And a way […]
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[…] which typically embody the energies of compassion, compassionate activity, intelligence, and so forth, are powerful in a more subtle way, as their energy seeps deep into our reactive patterns and dissolves the corresponding identifications. Practicing as the Commitment Being In formal meditation sessions, we let the mind settle, resting in the experience of breathing, perhaps, […]
Chapter 11 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] up. And I found it much better to learn how to engage a person, and bring them in touch with their reactive patterns, without actually triggering the reactive pattern, or a reactive pattern. There’s usually a deeper experience, which often takes them by surprise because they just find themselves there. So, I found these lines […]
Chapter 2 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] move the third time, he’s waiting for you. I call it the rule of three. So, anytime you reproduce a dynamic three times, you’re stuck in a reactive pattern. Very useful. So, the third time you catch yourself lying about something, take note. The evolutionary process is already well underway. It’s there; it’s in you. […]
Chapter 4 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] Ken: Yeah, you have a problem with this experience called a sentient being. What happens in you? Leslie: You … you grasp or— Ken: Yeah, there’s a reactive emotion comes flying up right? Leslie: Yeah, yeah. Ken: So, Sentient beings are infinite: I vow to save them all. Reactive emotions are infinite: I vow […]
