Chapter 8 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] with anger. Find a method that works for you Ken: In the three-year retreat, first three-year retreat, when we got to the part of the retreat on taking and sending—and Rinpoche gave us two months on taking and sending—I did two weeks on loving-kindness and two weeks on compassion. Just the straight traditional meditations that you […]
Chapter 1 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] this gratitude and express that, but I feel more fearful of those negative feelings and emotions. Yes. And you can always transform them. But then are you taking away from that experience? Ken: You can transform them? How do you do that? I want to know. I’ve never discovered anybody who can transform those […]
Chapter 6 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] put others first? Even if, even if, even if, even if … Ken: Well, you’re quite right about the structure. The first one’s a general comment on taking and sending, and next six are: this is what it looks like. Yeah. Okay. Steve? Steve: One of the things I thought about was that, we react to […]
Chapter 6 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] status of experience Charles: A couple of years ago, I listened to your Mahayana Mind Training podcasts, and I thought, “This is great,” and I started doing taking and sending. Then I got sick, so I did more taking and sending, and I got sicker. I had to have surgery, I had complications from surgery. So […]
Chapter 4 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] you say, “You think you will live forever, you cannot live forever. All things are impermanent. You, like me, like everyone, will die one day.” And do taking and sending with all the reactions that registers in the child’s face. And the child’s form grows brighter with light. And then tell the child, “You want to […]
Chapter 2 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] lamrim because it leads one through a sequence of practices. So this is a very basic genre, which started with Atisha. Atisha had received the teachings on taking and sending and mind training from Dharmakirti. And they were under seal. Conditions for seals were varied, but in this particular case it meant that this teaching could […]
Chapter 9 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] ask, “Is this a fact or a feeling?” And as her mind grew quieter and clearer, she could see that a lot of the things she was taking as facts were actually feelings. That’s one small example of what is being referred to here as attachment to sensuous experience. It’s really got nothing to […]
Chapter 8 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] Ken: But it happens. And all of you have experienced it. Okay. Well, I was going to talk about something else this morning, but this is good. Taking and sending Student: I’m struck by the similarity between what we’re working on here and taking and sending. And what you just said reminds me again. Partly, they’re […]
Chapter 5 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] compassion or appearance side. Student: Why? Ken: Well, what are two practices? Very simply, say, resting in attention, or mahamudra, or dzogchen, on the one hand, and taking and sending on the other, which is a compassion practice. That would be one example of pairing, but there are so many practices, you can choose different pairs. […]
Chapter 3 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] quiet down. Because this practice is best done from a stable base of attention and we’re early in the retreat. This is not the main practice of taking and sending, but it does provide the framework or the environment in which taking and sending operates, and I’ll talk more about that tomorrow morning. We’ll move to […]
Chapter 5 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] ability here in all of you, is such that more opportunity to work with being just with the reactive tendencies as they arise, using the tools of taking and sending, ultimate bodhicitta, will help deepen and strengthen your practice. In the period we have from the end of lunch to the beginning of walking meditation, some […]
Chapter 9 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] undermining that conditioning, so we’re able to do that. Okay. Now, Robert, Robert: With regard to verse number 23, the idea of attraction. I find that using taking and sending can be very effective in letting go of that attachment, but I find for example, with verse 24, when it comes to aversion, that taking and […]
Chapter 12 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] up. So very lazy person. And in the second retreat he didn’t teach the four immeasurables at all. And I worked with him. When he got to taking and sending he didn’t even teach taking and sending—just a very little bit—he had them doing something else. I had a really knock down, drag ’em out argument […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] best for them. [Unrecorded] Go over to page 13, and that’s the dedication. When you are the embodiment of awakened compassion, you can, if you wish, do taking and sending as the embodiment of awakened compassion, which is different from just doing taking and sending as yourself. Why? Because when you’re taking and sending as yourself, […]
Chapter 7 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] it is not, does not make it empty. To say “it is” does not make it solid. It is around beyond mind for experience is just there—no taking hold, no letting go. It is a space free from all complications of thought and object. Because I’m free from the thinking of that distorts experience, […]
