Chapter 21 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] quality to it. So, Konchog Gyaltsen’s translation may be a little bit of a gloss. Okay? The notion of truth Ken: Now, this next bit—the classification by primary characteristics—this is really quite important, and also is the basis for a lot of confusion for people. The first division basically reflects compassion and emptiness. Now, […]
Chapter 1 of “Living Awake: Making Things Happen”
[…] just sheer strength, and that’s the capacity here. So these are typically the things that fall under capacity. Time, okay? Money. In organizational settings these are the primary things. Thinking too much. The reason I’ve put this under capacity is, one needs a certain capacity in attention. So you can actually stay present in […]
Chapter 7 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] And I said there were several techniques which could be used for that. One’s the five-step practice, which allows us to open more deeply. Another is the primary practice, which works both broadly and deeply. Student: Did you give us the primary? Ken: I gave it in previous retreats and we’ll be putting something up […]
Chapter 4 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] they’re really thinking, and so forth. Okay. But everybody has all five elements, they aren’t personality types. What I typically find is that most people have a primary relationship with one element, a secondary relationship with another, and often not a very good relationship with the others, which limits their range of responses. I […]
Chapter 3 of “Living Awake: Making Things Happen”
[…] Student: Squished. Ken: Squished. Some English words really work, you know. [Laughter] Squished. Microphone over here please. There you go. Student: Primitive. Ken: Primitive. Student: A very primary process if you’ll excuse the therapy language there, but primitive will cover it. Ken: Primitive. [Ken writes on board] Okay. Anybody else? Student: Revealing. Ken: Revealing. […]
Chapter 1 of “Living Awake: Surviving Stressful Times”
[…] things affecting you? I’m not going to go around and do a poll—just anybody who wants to volunteer, just in a sentence or two. Sharon: Well, the primary effect at the moment has been stock market loss, which there has been, so far, enough cushion that it hasn’t had a major negative impact yet, […]
Chapter 3 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] the retreat, everybody worked on everything. But once those names went up on the doors, then it was about 50/50. Fifty percent of the people put their primary effort into fixing up their room, and their spare time into working on everything [else]. And then some of us, and I was in this group, […]
Chapter 4 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] had to do with joy, and now I see. Ken: Okay, good. Okay. Are you okay with this? Joe: Yes. One final thing. [Laughter] When I’m doing primary practice, I suppose what I was looking for when I’m trying to just experience everything I’m experiencing, and drop the distinction between inside and outside … never […]
Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Who Am I?”
[…] arrive at very, very quickly through any kind of logic or analysis, runs smack into all of that conditioning, that habit. And that is one of the primary tensions in spiritual practice. And we address that tension by developing a capacity of experience, a capacity in attention, so that we actually can open to […]
