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 […]
Chapter 7 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] of standing up: a review Ken: Saturday, October the 24th, There Is No Enemy. Afternoon session. There are a good number of loose ends to tidy up, and I think the first one will be from this morning. We were going through the four stages, but I was going through the four steps of […]
Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
Guided direct awareness practice Ken: This morning, not a lot to add, I wanted to do one thing this morning and one thing this afternoon. Last night, I talked briefly about the three kinds of meditation practices: the practice of presence, or direct awareness, purification practices and energy transformation practices. Up to this point, […]
Chapter 9 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] five people who spoke English and about five or six people who spoke French. And so, I was translating into English, and then my French counterpart was taking the English and translating that into French. His English was better than mine, but his Tibetan wasn’t quite as good. And Dilgo Khyentse chose to teach […]
Chapter 17 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] we’ve explored here is that mind is how we experience things. So another way of looking at this is, how is your own experience of the world and of yourself undermined, negated or trivialized—any number of things—so that you don’t know your own experience or are unable to act on your own experience. Both […]
Chapter 6 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] to understand the value of zero. You may recall that the number system in Grecian times consisted of the letters of the alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta and so forth. So alpha plus alpha equals beta; beta plus beta equals delta. If you ever try to do arithmetic with this system, it’s kind of a mess. […]
Chapter 2 of “Finding the Way”
The four noble truths Ken: Today is entering the village. And as I was saying last night, this retreat is primarily about how to explore your own experience. The aim in Buddhism—just to review this very briefly—the first formulation Buddha gave is known as the four noble truths. First noble truth is there is […]
Chapter 4 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] p. 59 He’s referring to the duck who sits on it’s eggs and turns them over when it’s too hot. What often prevents us from seeing and taking care of our life in its widest dimensions and covers our passion for life is fanaticism—political, philosophical, as well as the following of a blind devotion […]
