Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] meditations on loving-kindness and compassion didn’t work for him. He got this certain meditation from one of his teachers which did. For me, I found the four immeasurables very very powerful and very effective. But our retreat director, Lama Tenpa just couldn’t relate to them at all. So we have these differences. It wasn’t […]
Chapter 2 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] Then when you can visualize the form clearly then you invest the form with meaning, so that with Avalokiteshvara for instance, the four arms are the four immeasurables. And then the white color of Chenrezig’s form symbolizes the purity. The deer skin he has over his shoulders symbolizes the softness of compassion and so […]
Chapter 19 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] you remember the discussions we’ve had about power, there’s a very close relationship; joy is the emotion that is associated with power. So, in terms of the immeasurables, when somebody celebrates what you are doing, this plants a seed which is your connection with power. And that’s very important in the context of these […]
Chapter 9 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] because that’s a frame of reference. Still others are method, so that’s where you’re going to get things like shamatha-vipashyana, and loving-kindness and compassion, and the four immeasurables, and things like that. Yeah, they’re methods for the formation of an enlightened attitude. They’re very definitely that. Others are training in the usefulness and the […]
Chapter 6 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] you could talk about the use of gaze particularly eyes closed and the different levels of gaze. Ken: Yes. When you’re working with things like the four immeasurables—those kinds of practices—the positioning of your eyes is probably not so important. You’re generally just going to let the eyes rest. And I’m not even sure […]
Chapter 5 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] to hold to mental states or experiences that arise. In the way that I was trained, this was always regarded as counterproductive. Whether it was the four immeasurables, yidam practice, mahamudra, you name it. When the quality of attention, quality of experience dissipates, don’t try to hold onto it. “Let it go. Relax. And […]
Chapter 2 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] have any way of accessing or working with directly. And then we use special techniques such as taking and sending or chö or yidam practice or four immeasurables or whatever to work on things quite explicitly so that certain qualities and certain abilities develop so that we can open to those experiences. For some […]
Chapter 3 of “Living Awake: Money and Value”
[…] commentary. In my opinion it’s the best of the Uchiyama books. But the whole book, his whole commentary—which actually is a very high-level commentary on the four immeasurables—is based on the distinction between two worlds. The world in which we share and interact—which is the one in which we think we live—versus the world […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning from the Lives of Lineage Holders”
[…] different practices do different things. So, you meditate on death and impermanence—that does one thing. You meditate on compassion—that does something else. You meditate on the four immeasurables—that does something. You meditate on insight—that does something. Each of these practices has a different intention. What Khyungpo Naljor did for the first part of his […]
Chapter 1 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] running around inside us which keep destabilizing our attention. And so one of the reasons we do the practices such as the five dakinis, or the four immeasurables or any of those things is to knock out the fullness of the reactive process so they stop operating. And then our attention naturally becomes more […]