Chapter 1 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] if when you know the history of Buddhism you look at these practices and you go “Wow!” They’ve got so many different elements. They’re so rich. And taking and sending is, while a very, very simple practice, has a great deal of richness to it. So in a certain sense it partakes of a bit of […]
Chapter 6 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] astute minds. In any event, anywhere along this path, one can find oneself falling into just being present. In the summer retreat we did in Santa Fe, taking and sending, which was totally focused on Sūtrayāna practice, there were a number of people who were doing taking and sending, and the bottom just fell out of […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] actually in this country. The way you break the spell of intoxication by pleasure and power is through the technique that I introduced you to this morning, taking and sending. Take in the pain of suffering of the world and give your experience of pleasure and power to others. Shatters that illusion very, very effectively. A […]
Chapter 1 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] is then used to power attention. In the Mahayana, the four immeasurables are used primarily as a basis for the generation of compassion, using such techniques as taking and sending, and many others. And then compassion is used to transform one’s experience of the world. Zen tradition—and we will be taking a look at the way […]
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[…] is arising in me is just too intense. I am just not able to sit and do nothing. At such times, I turn to an old friend, taking and sending. We’ve known each other for many, many years now, so the practice comes easily. Whatever turmoil I’m experiencing, I take it in, taking it away from […]
Chapter 6 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] tremendous amount of pain for a long period of time. And there were very long stretches where all I could do was basically curl up and do taking and sending. I couldn’t do any other practice. And I would just sit there in pain going, “Breathing in, may I take all the suffering of the world […]
Chapter 5 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] that one can relax from the inside out. You’ve worked through those experiences, and you do that through meditations such as death and impermanence, and karma, and taking and sending, and the development of compassion, the four immeasurables, all of those kinds of things. Then another thing that we do is a lot of energy transformation […]
Chapter 1 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] and very helpful for many people. That’s Thursday. On Friday, we’ll work with another technique which many of you are familiar with, and that’s the practice of taking and sending which is a Mahayana technique based on compassion but works very much in the vein that I am talking about. About creating the condition so that […]
Chapter 8 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] to his room because he could see there was no anger, there was nothing, totally cool. And that didn’t come from mahamudra practice. It all came from taking and sending practice. One of the other students said, “Why didn’t you get up and hit him?!” [Laughter] He had his own hell. He really did. He really […]
Chapter 9 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] would just leave your jaw dropping, well versed in all of the intricacies of very subtle and advanced techniques. And then he came across this technique called taking and sending, which consists of imagining taking in all of the suffering of others and giving your own happiness and joy to them, synchronizing that with the coming […]
Chapter 4 of “Ideology & Wisdom”
[…] engage that question, and engage it deeply with any of the tools that we’ve discussed today, or with any of the other tools that you know—yidam practice, taking and sending, mahamudra, etc., etc., any of these tools—it’s possible you will come to an experience of resting, of being at peace, in which any sense of “I” […]
Chapter 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] is Kalu Rinpoche’s successor, always advises that you do the practice that you find in the middle of The Great Path of Awakening, that is you do taking and sending, and from taking and sending you let your mind rest in sheer clarity. That’s the best practice. Now, there are all kinds of fancy practices that […]
Chapter 8 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] you are [laughter] completely crazy. And this is the true value of a relationship, of a good relationship, it brings you into balance. Student: [Unclear] Ken: Well taking and sending is a method, a very good method, that helps you feel what you are unwilling to feel. Student: Helps you what? Ken: Helps you feel what […]
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[…] say, the path of purification is not easy. It involves experiencing precisely what we have always ignored or suppressed. For instance, the Tibetan practice called tonglen, or “ taking and sending,” extends and deepens our relationship with compassion. In this practice, we imagine taking in the pain, illness, negativity, confusion, and ignorance of others, freeing them from […]
Chapter 7 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] a transition which many people find quite challenging. And I think it’s a transition that a good teacher can be very helpful with, so that whether it’s taking and sending or tonglen or mahamudra or any of these things, you say, “okay, I know this practice, this practice means something to me, now I’m just going […]