Chapter 3 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] practice is exactly the same. There are these areas within us which we are alienated from. And we’ll be talking more about that in the context of taking and sending tomorrow. And what you’re doing here is just saying, “Okay. I’ve ignored you for the last ten, twenty, thirty, forty years, whatever. Now I will hold […]
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[…] being (bodhisattva) is one who is determined to wake up. So we have to separate from being concerned solely with our own welfare. The primary practice is taking and sending. It embodies the four immeasurables (loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity). “If you are attached to a position, you can’t see things as they are. When […]
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[…] teachings and their time-tested methods of practice that include: The development of stable attention, insight, and the uncovering of direct awareness; Mahayana mind-training including loving kindness, compassion, taking and sending (tonglen), the six perfections including the perfection of wisdom, and the Great Middle Way; Vajrayana practice, including teacher union, deity creation and completion, energy transformation, and […]
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[…] complexities of modern life. His approach is non-sectarian — drawing on various Buddhist traditions while focusing on the core practices of stable attention, Mahayana mind training ( taking and sending), the methods and rituals of Vajrayana, and the direct awareness practices of mahamudra and dzogchen. Author and Translator In addition to his teaching and translation work, […]
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[…] heritage (buddha nature), and all the various spiritual practices, meditation, contemplation on such themes as impermanence, suffering, non-self, compassion, emptiness, koan practice (in Zen), the four immeasurables, taking and sending, etc., are concerned, at least in part, with removing the blocks that prevent that direct knowing or with cultivating that direct knowing explicitly (as in mahamudra, […]
