Chapter 31 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] opens. Chuck: I see. And I think that being able to see the situation, you can see other people when they get caught up in their own reactive patterns. You see them standing in line and having a hissy fit and all that. And you can sort of empathize with them instead of … Ken: […]
Chapter 5 of “Finding the Way”
[…] going to get it through your intellect. In fact, speaking personally, I found my intellect an exceedingly unreliable tool because it is almost always in service of reactive patterns. I have found my intellect an exceedingly unreliable tool because it is almost always in service of reactive patterns. A friend of mine, a very good […]
Chapter 8 of “Power and Presence”
[…] that interior world. Now, how many of you have met the old man with the red eyes? What’s he like? Guy? Guy: He’s the embodiment of a reactive pattern that has no awareness. Ken: You’re giving an interpretation. What’s he like? Guy: Untrustworthy. Ken: What do you feel when you run into him? Guy: Danger. […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] clarify for myself that what it seems to me is that anger is always caused by opposing experience or fighting experience. So, therefore, anger is always a reactive pattern? Ken: Yes. Anger is a reactive pattern, because in anger you see the object of anger as something other, and there may be a very, very […]
Chapter 2 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] more and more that those are irrelevant considerations. And you begin to see that this experience, which we call life, large portions of it are consumed by reactive patterns, we aren’t actually present for it at all. And so, the second aspect of motivation arises. There are these reactive patterns, and they’re consuming my life […]
Chapter 7 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] deity, is connected with non-self. As we discussed yesterday, we have all of these different identities, senses of self, each one associated with a whole set of reactive patterns or personality. And one way of looking at yidam practice, is adopting one identity and approaching everything in life from that. And some of you had […]
Chapter 3 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] it, in the sense of actually change it, that’s probably unrealistic. I mean, you know how difficult it is to cut through the momentum of your own reactive patterns. Roger: The consequences, that’s why [unclear]. Ken: Yes. However, we can and cut through our own confusion and see things clearly, and that’s what I was […]
Chapter 8 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] go so far. Okay, now, last question Diane? Diane: [Unclear] Ken: Yes, a very, very good point. The opponent whether it’s operating as your family system or reactive patterns in you, uses all of those six techniques and the remedies that I have suggested will apply. So that if in your family system everything gets […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] and I’m trying to put it into English-English. So, that’s why I chose the word ordinary, because these people, or these gods, have not stepped out of reactive patterns. They’re caught up in them in exactly the same way that we are. Robert: In Buddhism or the Tibetan text, are they actually using the word […]
Chapter 5 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] these as headings, basically. Internally it’s extremely important not to regard any internal pattern as an enemy. And the reason for that is that all of those reactive patterns—well, maybe it’s too strong to say all of them—but a very large number of the reactive patterns that operate in this originally developed as survival mechanisms. […]
Chapter 3 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] I pray. Ken: What this line is describing is letting yourself feel that longing so deeply that it makes chaos out of all of your habituated patterns, reactive patterns, because that’s what comprises samsara. It’s a scary place to go to for a lot of people. For some, it’s actually quite an easy place to […]
Chapter 25 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] a very, very far reaching intention. This make sense to everybody? Okay. Randye: Along those lines, because I was editing all your teachings in the book about reactive patterns and dismantling, in that same vein with despair, what really struck me in thinking about despair and then listening to so much of that chapter in […]
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[…] feel abandoned, bereft, heartbroken, and lost. At the point when prayer seems futile and hopeless, when we feel we can no longer tolerate the raging of these reactive patterns, something else begins to form. As one practitioner said, “Gates look like corners, until you go through them.” Unexpectedly, we leave behind the world of emotional […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] is fine, and you let your mind rest there. Then as you breathe out, you imagine hūm coming out of your heart. And all of your negativity, reactive patterns, confusion, bewilderment, etc. going out and just being dispersed, so it’s gone. This is traditionally done with om ah hūm. The om is white. The ah […]
Chapter 5 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] spiritual awakening is. We come and we have this wonderful spiritual awakening. And what happens so frequently when there’s some kind of spiritual awakening, is that the reactive patterns just shut everything right down. This has never happened. Anybody know this experience? And we go, what happened? I was so open and everything like that. […]
