Chapter 26 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] which have been tested by time and experience. And that’s what Gampopa is relating here: everything we’ve talked about in terms of impermanence and karma, and the six realms, and loving-kindness, and compassion, etc. All of these things, and what I talked about in Wake Up to Your Life. These are things which all help […]
Chapter 35 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] consists of the first, second, and third, and fourth meditative stages, and the formless stages. [Gyaltsen, p. 259] You may recall when you were going through the six realms, we talked about the god realms, the form gods and the formless gods. This is where all of this stuff comes in. What they are describing […]
Chapter 3 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] would like you to explore is: “What do I trust? What can I trust?” How do I relate? Ken: Then the next stanza: The beings in the six realms are as kind as my parents. Give me energy for loving-kindness and compassion. Prayer to the Perfection of Wisdom I’ve thought about this one quite a […]
Chapter 7 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] emotion, which is a different practice. Student: Is there a basic set of emotions, like one through ten, one through five? Fear— Ken: Sure, one through six— six realms. Every one of them has, at the basis, fear. But don’t worry about lists like that, just work with your own experience, and that’s fine. Student: […]
Chapter 5 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] the blah. Or, we can just do it with all sentient beings. Or we can work through particular sequences as I described this morning such as the six realms. And we can do that in the mythological form or in the practical … not so much practical but the, how they’re realized in the lives […]
Chapter 8 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] the next thing you begin to appreciate is that we don’t really experience it as it is. There are all of these filters, which we call the six realms, and you begin to appreciate that as long as you’re working in this filtered experience, thing’s just don’t work out in a very good way. In […]
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[…] Tibetan tradition. And I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t visualize. I couldn’t see myself as Chenrezi. I couldn’t feel anything resembling compassion for the beings in the six realms of existence. My legs hurt, and I was in constant pain. For me it was a miserable disaster — unpleasant, confusing, and disappointing. In desperation, I […]
Chapter 2 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] energy. And they’re consuming my experience of life, so I’m going to do something about that. And that leads you into the workings of karma, and the six realms, and all of that stuff. Now, many of you who have been exposed to Vajrayana and traditional Tibetan teachings will know this last line as: Bless […]
Chapter 5 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] beings. So every one of these senses of self has a distorted way of experiencing the world. And this [unclear] gives rise to what we call the six realms and all of this stuff, and because of that distortion or those distortions, then because it’s based on the projections and not on what actually is, […]
Chapter 15 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] generating a form, then it’s more appropriate for you to do taking and sending with a person or sentient being; it could be from one of the six realms or something like that. Give it a concrete form. And that’s not going to diminish the effectiveness of the practice. That’s just gonna be the technique […]
Chapter 7 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] your question I’m inferring that you’re thinking of situations where you’re encountering say greed: hungry ghosts. Valerie: Yeah I mean, you’d told me to go through the six realms and do it. But I know plenty of hungry ghosts in real life as well. Ken: Archetypal … yeah, okay so, yes thanks for reminding me. […]
