Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] resting—and we’re doing a good bit of that during the day—then you actually need less sleep. So, I mean the retreat we usually got between four and six hours a night. That was fine. As the mind grows clearer then dreaming becomes more vivid and you’re just going to remember them more. And there […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] see things as they are, and all kinds of other things set in. Arrogance creeps in very, very easily. Complacency, feelings of entitlement—in the parlance of the six realms we move into the god realm. And a one-liner summary of the god realm is, “I’m right and that’s just how it is.” And it’s a […]
Chapter 9 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] and what you might do with them. I also want to talk a little bit about where does one go from here. So, first turn to page six. You notice that Franca, page six. Franca: It’s your favorite page. Ken: This is the Aspirations for Mahamudra. We’ve taken a quick look at some parts […]
Chapter 4 of “Living Awake: Who Am I?”
[…] very useful and informative and the tools. But I certainly think that waiting … [unclear]. Student: I hate these summaries at the end, because I can’t process six hours worth of information all that quickly. But I think what I’m thinking about right now is about storytelling, a lot. And this requirement that we […]
Chapter 2 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] will experience hell. If you put your energy into trying to get things, you’ll experience poverty—hungry ghost realm. And so forth, and so forth, through all the six realms. In other words, anytime you put energy into reactive emotions—emotions that are organized around a sense of self—you are creating the circumstances in which you will […]
Chapter 29 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] kind of thing. That’s what I want to try and bring out through this. Now does this address some of the issues that were raised? Okay. Well, six of one, half a dozen of the other, which translation here? So, we’ll probably use both again. We are on page 163 in Guenther and 196 […]
Chapter 16 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] they clarify one’s motivation, what one’s actually doing in practice. Then, “being attached to the pleasures of samsara,” this was addressed through the contemplation of the the six realms of existence and the workings of karma. A lot of people think that karma—and you were referring to this Cara—is the balancing mechanism in the universe. […]
Chapter 3 of “Ideology & Wisdom”
[…] and so forth. They’re the concepts we use for communication, internal as well as external. In this bucket is consciousness. And there are, for our purposes here, six or— depending on how you count them—eight. But we’ll just use eight. There’s a consciousness associated with each sense. Like there’s something that’s conscious of seeing. […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] are, that clarity … there’s still a knowing going on. In the dzogchen tradition, there’s a practice where you imagine that you are in various of the six realms. And you really get into it, you know, being in the hell realm or being in the hungry ghost realm. And then you imagine that you’re […]
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 2 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] cultivate loving-kindness and compassion. Now when most people read this, they think, “Okay that’s nice, yeah, I got the point.” Realistically speaking, those two pages, represent minimum six to eight months work on regular practice on just those two thing, so you actually develop loving-kindness and compassion. A number of people here were with […]
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 2 of “Heart Sutra Workshop”
[…] Person, child, parent, job. You know, all of the concepts we use to function. The fifth one is consciousness, of which for our purposes, we’ll just use six or seven. I think there could be eight, there could be nine. But the six are the five associated with each of the senses and the […]
Chapter 2 of “Monsters under the Bed”
[…] emotional patterns. As Claudia said, that’s usually well set in place by three years. In fact, an awful lot of it is laid down in the first six months. It’s a little frightening. Any of you who are into attachment theory know about that. You spend the rest of your life dealing with those […]
Chapter 1 of “Four Immeasurables”
Reactive vs. higher emotions Ken: We’re going to begin what is a six session class on the four immeasurables. As all of you know, we’re going to be meeting every other week, not every week as we have in the past. On the alternate weeks the regular Tuesday group will be meeting here. Anybody […]
