Chapter 7 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] you get consumed by it and now start relating to the new situation from that old prospective, that’s a whole different thing. Now we’re caught in a reactive pattern. This comes up very, very frequently. When my father died, my parents were married I think for about sixty years. Long term. And I talked with […]
Chapter 2 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] Tuesday. Compassion-in-training Ken: The fourth method is compassion, through service. It’s one of the primary themes of the Mahayana. You use the energy of compassion to transform reactive patterns into attention. It is wonderfully and beautifully expressed through bodhicitta. The great work on this is Shantideva’s Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva or Entering the […]
Chapter 3 of “Stalking Death”
[…] You can tell them about it, but you can’t share the actual experience. In the middle, meditation on death and impermanence helps us to cut through the reactive patterns that create suffering for ourselves and others. And it does so because we see that much of what we’re holding onto is really quite insignificant in […]
Chapter 4 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] the past of the teacher, and I grew up in a very traditional religion with a great deal of obedience to authority. That is one of the reactive patterns I had to work through. And so I, and think it may be shared by others, profound distrust of placing my path in another’s hands. Ken: […]
Chapter 6 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] As you recite the mantra elixir drips from this, filling first her form and then overflowing through her toe. Coming and washing all the karmic obscurations, negativity, reactive patterns and emotions, confusion, bewilderment totally out of your being and out of the being of all sentient beings everywhere. And all of that negativity and disturbance, […]
Chapter 5 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] we’re working emotionally is extremely important. You’ll know if something is out of balance or—to put it another way—it is the expression of or feeding of a reactive pattern, by how it plays in your body. Ken: Janet you had a question. Janet: When you encounter a part of you that resists this kind of […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning from the Lives of Lineage Holders”
[…] great and glorious motivation. Every person who treads the path, treads it for the same reason: We are going to die, our life energy is consumed by reactive patterns, which make a mess of our life both for ourselves and for other people. The process is completely out of control. The only thing to do […]
