[…] 48 Demons you can think of as being emotional eruptions. Kind of things that you feel temporarily insane. That’s a demon. Because they help to increase your faith and virtue, they’re emanations of your guru or of buddhas. So I was okay. Then he gets to, Illness is the broom for evil and obscurations. […]

[…] climate from our own practice. I don’t know if you have the chant booklets here, but the prayer that we read this morning, Soothing the Pain of Faith, this prayer was written by Kongtrul and traces the lineage of mind training. And you can see in the third stanza, Dharmakirti and Lord Atisha. Tracing […]

[…] open and swallow me. And so I open to that experience. Sometimes—and this really is going to sound stupid, it’s going to cause everybody to lose total faith in me—is that … Cara: [Whispers] No. Ken: … I just hate feeling that unimportant. Cara: You mean like out of control? Ken: No, no, no. […]

[…] of Wisdom. Whether you regard that as a goddess—because there is a Perfection of Wisdom who has four arms, etc., in the iconography—and feel a lot of faith in that, or you regard the Perfection of Wisdom as the wisdom aspect of your own mind, in a certain sense, it doesn’t make any difference. […]

[…] at our experience is the propaganda job. That’s why science—and many people have written about this—is the dominant religion of our age. Because that’s an article of faith: only that which can be measured exists. Fundamentalism is the reaction to that religion. It is also a modern phenomenon that arises because of the imposition […]

[…] able to. And then look at the experience of the emotion. What do you see? Look at the emotion, whether it’s anger, envy, sexual desire, love, compassion, faith. Look at the emotion itself. What is it? What do you see? Anybody? Joe: Energy. Ken: You see energy, Joe? Joe: “See,” you say? Ken: Yes. […]

[…] or the precious human body or the precious human existence is an answer to?” Anybody give thought to that one? Student: What is actualized when you have faith supported by interest, dedication and capacity? And then the other one is kind of different but—when is our one opportunity? Ken: Okay, anybody else? Susan, then […]

[…] they will take a long time, but I don’t see the proof. I’m being asked to believe it. And having been born and raised in the Catholic faith … Ken: Catholic Church. Frances: It’s my … to reject everything. Ken: A healthy attitude, which I applaud. Frances: Yeah, well, it didn’t go over so […]

[…] the sangha in Buddhism, one of its functions has been to provide the security of transmission of teachings from generation to generation, which it has done very faithfully over 2,500 years. So it would be incorrect, really, to regard institutions as the problem. That’s a bit like regarding thunderstorms as a problem. I mean, […]

[…] The relationship is for the benefit of the person whose stuff is being pointed out. And there has to be that confidence, whether you translate that as faith, or trust or whatever you want—doesn’t matter. You know what I’m talking about—that this is being done for your benefit. A friend of mine studies with […]

[…] Maybe I didn’t want to hear that part, but it gets actually harder and harder. And I will say that in the end, it released. It ran faithfully in a certain situation related to the teaching group for three or four years almost, regularly, before it let go. Ken: Three or four years? Not […]

[…] Shakyamuni. I give him 500 measures of gold from Gulang. It is just like seeing the Buddha himself. My hair stands on end, I weep profusely. Genuine faith arises within me. In a fit of utter devotion, I join my hands and ask him this: Be a fountain of teachings my monastic preceptor. Please […]

[…] these are actually the mental processes through which experience is organized, basically. So, you get all of the reactive emotions and the positive emotions and things like faith and embarrassment. But you also get strange things, because we use them, like ownership and date, etc. So, all experience falls into one of these five […]

[…] But I’ll give you more detail on that in a moment. Fall, trusting nothing whatsoever Ken: The other thing that’s required—and we have various words for this–trust, faith. It’s a peculiar form of trust, because ordinarily we think of trusting in something. Here, in order to practice non-distraction, you are going to trust nothing […]

[…] suffering arises like magic, we do a practice which is like magic, we experience an enlightenment or awakening which is like magic, all through the power of faith. And when I first heard those lines, which is like many, many years ago now, they just struck me so very, very deeply. One of the […]