Chapter 30 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] “through hundreds of thousands of eons,” we should probably say, “through millions of eons.” One moment of anger and you’ve wiped out millions of eons of good karma. It gets a bit terrifying. But, I think it’s a way of saying, you’ve got to take care with anger, because it just really sets things […]
Chapter 4 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] how you think affect what happens to you and how you experience the world? Anybody? Would anybody disagree with that statement? Okay, that’s basically the principle of karma, so if you disagree with that statement, then that’s kind of stupid, because it’s so obvious. But that’s one of the wrong views. Is everything in […]
Chapter 7 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] And basically I say the same thing to people, “Only travel this path if you have to.” There’s a teacher in Toronto who’s quite old now, Lama Karma Thinley, who’s always been a bit quirky. Which is one of the things I liked about him. When he first came to Toronto which was back […]
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[…] across Asia to India. There he met his principal teacher, Kalu Rinpoche, the lineage holder of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition and a senior meditation master in the Karma Kagyu tradition. He translated for Kalu Rinpoche on his first teaching tour in North America in 1971-2, helped establish Rinpoche’s center in Vancouver, Canada, and then […]
Practice Material
[…] no distinction between the mind of student and teacher,Attain full awakening. This heartfelt song about experiencing the world of experience as one’s teacher was sung spontaneously by Karma Rangjung Kunchab (Kalu Rinpoche) at the request of the diligent practitioner Karma Sherab. Through this prayer, may the energy of the glorious teachers enter his heart. […]
Chapter 3 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] of them. When you have a lump of gold ore and you purify it, what are you purifying? The gold, right? So to talk about purifying unwholesome karma is an idiocy in English. They aren’t purifying unwholesome karma, we’re getting rid of it. So that’s why I don’t like to use the word purification; […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] or regard forces in the world and events as things that happen to us, it’s coming from outside. So in Buddhist thought, there’s even the sense of karma is this external force which somehow acts on us. It’s very popular; it’s not an accurate idea, but it’s a popular idea. So, we talk about […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] oppressor to stop? And from a Buddhist point of view—this is a little hard for people in our culture—the oppressed is reaping the effects of previous bad karma. The oppressor is creating bad karma. Who do you have more compassion for? You follow? The oppressor’s at the beginning of the whole karmic process is […]
Chapter 2 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] Drikung Kagyu, Taglung Kagyu, Tsalpa, Drukpa are all one or more of these lineages. Several of these lineages have now died out. The principle ones are the Karma Kagyu, with the Karmapas, the Drikung Kagyu, and the Drukpa Kagyu, the Drukpa Kagyu is still very strong. I think there’s the Taglung Kagyu still, to […]
Chapter 7 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] how things are kept in balance. And that’s why protector practice is always a part of any intensive Vajrayana practice. Keeps things in balance. I remember Lama Karma Thinley, who was our retreat director, coming in at a certain point. Lama Karma Thinley loved to do mahamudra practice. That’s what he did. He was […]
Chapter 4 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] imbalance in action or effort, and whenever there is imbalance in action or effort, there is necessarily an imbalance in result. This is, in different words, how karma operates, and why karma is self-propagating. Because the imbalance and result feeds back to create an imbalance in mind, and around we go again. If you […]
Chapter 2 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] to appreciate fairly slowly in the Tibetan tradition is that it wasn’t uncommon for those two roles to be divided between two people. The head of the Karma Kagyu order, Karmapa, was an extraordinary person. If you were around him, it was like being around the sun, or a thunderstorm, or a hurricane. It […]
Chapter 11 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] are just gonna die, then— Ken: Why do we need to be responsible? And what do we need to be responsible for? Cara: Doesn’t this get into karma? Don’t we need to be responsible for what sort of energy we create and put out there and ingest? Ken: Why? Cara: Because [laughing] it’s the […]
Chapter 4 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] the only major philosophical debate in the Tibetan tradition. So we got seated at the table and ordered and everything had arrived. And I said, “My friend Karma Yonten wants to know about self-emptiness and other emptiness.” Rinpoche’s response was, “Karma Yonten is very clever.” And we had a sinking feeling that this was […]
Chapter 7 of “Death: Friend or Foe?”
[…] her. But you can say it, your microphone’s right there— Jean: No, go ahead it’s your microphone. Ken: No, yeah, go ahead. It’s your phrase. Jean: Maybe karma is just brain plasticity. Ken: Karma is neuroplasticity, I love it. So, because the current way that brain development is looked at is that it’s a […]
