Chapter 10 of “Power and Presence”
[…] only too happy because they all wanted to travel, etc. And they’re happy not to be stuck with that weekend for their centers. That was cool. Fast-forward six months, I’ve got all the plans set up for the retreat here, full enrollment. People are coming in from all over the country. We actually had […]
Chapter 1 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] look at the next three or four verses for next time. Let’s do the next three verses. That’s verses two, three and four, because verses five and six go together. These don’t have as much traditional material embedded in them in the way that the first three verses did. They’re fairly straightforward but I […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] is provoked, you don’t fall into confusion. Student: Okay. Thank you. Ken: But is this challenging? Highly. Are we quarter past 12 already? I haven’t touched the six perfections yet. Okay. Yes. Anger and compassion Student: Well, when you’re talking about anger and rage and that sort of thing, it reminds me of how […]
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 2 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] rendition, but it was to that effect. Now, I don’t expect you to do all of these. In fact, that would be quite counterproductive. I’ve given you six or seven different techniques, and there are many more. I’ve given you six or seven here. And these are all tried and true traditional methods, and […]
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 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] you. And you go to the doctor, and he tells you that, quite unexpectedly, you have an advanced form of cancer—lymphoma or something like that—and you have six months approximately. And he sketches out a number of treatment options. You’re a bit stunned, so your wife asks most of the questions, and then you […]
Chapter 3 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] self or a sense of other. That is it arises in the seventh consciousness, which is the sense of self, or it arises in one of the six consciousnesses, which are associated with the six senses. Student: So you’d say it leaves the basic ground. Student: Leaves kun gzhi. Ken: Well, you have just […]
Chapter 2 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] yoga is primarily about building capacity, and can also be very helpful for developing willingness. All the answers are in here, on page 34. There is a six-line guru yoga prayer, which comes from the Kagyu Ngöndro. I’ve always liked this prayer. It’s a prayer I learned back in the early 1970s, and I’ve […]
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 […]
Chapter 36 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] the first level, and there’s a list of them. And then footnote three, you’ll see that there’s another list there. And footnote five, another list. And footnote six, another list. And on page 450 and 451, there’s just one list after another. And so I have the impression that you had masses of scholars […]
Chapter 32 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] we were talking about with karma—the genesis of distraction, and the conditions of distraction, or which foster distraction. So when we move down now to the next six topics—the primary characteristics of agitation, the cause of agitation, the faults of agitation, and the primary characteristics of solitude, the cause of solitude, and the good […]
Chapter 8 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] been more suppressed or whatever because you haven’t had the capacity of attention in order to be able to experience it at all. So it’s a mix, six of one, half dozen of the other. You know, it’s very interesting. Anybody here play World of Warcraft? I have a student who’s a really avid […]
Chapter 1 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] going.” So he started to talk again, figured out something else to say, and when he finished that, Ajahn Chah said, “Keep going.” I think it was something like six hours later. And Ajahn Sumedho said, “It was horrible. I stuttered. I stammered. I repeated myself, over and over again. I said inane things. I kept saying […]
