Chapter 6 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] Ken: Nothing. Student: Not cooking? Ken: Nothing. Student: [Unclear] the food. Ken: Well, they cooked, they did that. But they’d just sit and do nothing. And my faith and appreciation of what these guys did, just like, “Wow. That’s really something.” And these people were willing to experience whatever arose: all of the disappointments, […]
Chapter 4 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] been divided up into groups, and each group was doing a report on one of the religions. And they wanted someone who was in each of the faiths. So they had somebody from Islam, and somebody from Christianity, and Judaism, and I was the Buddhist rep. The sixth-grader group got up and they gave […]
Chapter 14 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] to, as you say entertain, to provide stimulation, and this is where a few days ago I talked about bringing that emotional quality whether it’s trust, or faith, or loving-kindness or whatever. That’s where it’s really important because all that stimulation comes up because you’re feeling alone and there’s fear coming up. And so […]
Chapter 11 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] one develops a facility you discover that it doesn’t matter what the experience is. It can be peace. It can be loving-kindness or compassion. It can be faith, devotion. It can be anger. It can be love. It can be grief. And what happens is as we rest deeply in this—and this is exactly […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] that before or after reading Stephen Batchelor’s book, when he was— Ken: Which one? Jeff: The dharma as experienced during Zen. I think it was that. Ken: Faith to Doubt? Jeff: No, there was a guy in L.A. It was a client. He was talking about, “Listen … just listen.” And if you do […]
Chapter 9 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] open to that then there’s a possibility you’re going to experience what has been locked up for all these many long years. And that’s where courage and faith become very, very important in practice. So rather than make war on these parts of ourselves, cultivate the ability to meet these parts of ourselves. […]
Chapter 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] that I didn’t expect to see at all. And it’s since closed down, I mean it has closed down, but it really gives me some kind of faith that things can open up again, ’cause I didn’t even believe that could happen, but there was a lot of people talking about how could this […]
Chapter 2 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] Strange Land it’s where the word grok comes from. How many have heard that word? Okay, you know. And I can’t remember the term for it the faithful observer or something like that? No, the witness right? These professionals who can … Student: They wear all white. Ken: Yeah. Student: Yeah. Ken: What were […]
Chapter 6 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] sort of meanings arise? Donna: Well, if I’m not reacting and I’m just in attention, then I don’t have a need to assign meaning. That’s where the faith comes in: that whatever’s going on is going on, that’s it. Ken: So, you’re going to watch the world go to ruin: poverty, pollution, all of […]
Chapter 4 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] space? Student: No. You just feel it. You just experience it. Ken: Try that with emptiness. Don’t try to understand emptiness because, I have it on good faith, there’s nothing to understand. What you’re doing is what people have done for centuries. This word emptiness has driven people nuts for at least 2,000 years. […]
Chapter 2 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] realms; you live with Karmapa, you never see the higher realms.” In that, you see Karmapa—you are are tremendously inspired, etc. Your heart opens, and there’s great faith, and it’s very good for your spiritual practice. If you live with Karmapa, you see him as an ordinary being, and you get into all the […]
Chapter 4 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] the letters of the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, om gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. As you recite the mantra, with a strong feeling of faith and devotion in Machik, elixir drips from the hung in the mantra and fills her whole form with this brilliantly white elixir, radiating light. As her […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] feel the presence of this whole lineage and all of the inspiration and appreciation that comes out of it. So, within us there’s a great feeling of faith and devotion and appreciation. We’re raising that energy, that’s the purpose of this. And even if you can’t, don’t remember all of the figures, just to […]
Chapter 8 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] lose their ability to function. It is completely impossible to explain to them, because they don’t have an experience on which an explanation can be based. Hence faith and trust form an inevitable part of spiritual practice. And, people being people, are inevitably abused. This evening I want to focus on taking what we’ve […]
Chapter 7 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] have Devotion Pierces My Heart as the title of that prayer, and another prayer that Kongtrül wrote on the mind training lineage is Soothing the Pain of Faith. This tells you how you pray and the line that I read the other night from the fire offering, or the burnt offering: uprooting patterned existence […]