Chapter 7 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] energy available for attention. So you develop more and more powerful attention, so you can see deeper and deeper into the working of things and dismantle the reactive patterns and so forth. But if you’re protecting an area of your life from the practice, it means you’re not including it in your attention. However, although […]
Chapter 5 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] your own experience. In essence the offering of torma is an offering of attention to, on the one hand, those aspects of experience which pull us into reactive patterns, and on the other hand, those aspects of our experience and activity which are an expression of being awake. Okay? Don’t waste any time Ken: Someone […]
Chapter 22 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] Ken: So let’s move on to intention. Joe, we can come back to you. Joe: What you said was really true. For me, was sort of like reactive pattern’s greatest hits. [Laughter] Ken: Say a bit more please. Joe: Just seeing what I wanted, they were all the result of patterns running. Ken: I see. […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] resting mind, just as you are experiencing now, it is stable and clear. Is everybody with me on that? What can happen is the stability is lost. Reactive patterns create disturbances. That’s where you start thinking; that’s the loss of stability. And then you just go off. The other thing that can happen is you […]
Chapter 1 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] four immeasurables, but particularly things like meditation on suffering, meditation on impermanence, and so forth in which you’re using these practices to dismantle the operation of various reactive patterns. One of the simplest ways to think about or to understand the reactive patterns is from the Theravadan tradition, the three marks of existence which are, […]
Chapter 2 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] do you have a question then? Student: Well, I just have a comment on homeland. When I think about it, it reminds me of comfort zone, or reactive patterns, sort of getting out of your comfort zone. Ken: Well, let me talk about homeland a little bit. One of Milarepa’s more famous sayings is, “If […]
Chapter 5 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] like it or not, it’s irrelevant. It’s to be awake in it. If we’re not awake in it, then whatever is arising is going to be triggering reactive patterns, and they’re going to be determining what we’re doing. Our own awareness, intelligence and so forth will not be determining what we’re doing. And that’s the […]
Chapter 4 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] prayer, an act there. Confessing evil actions. Confession is an unfortunate term. The Tibetan really means just to open the whole thing up. You cannot undo a reactive pattern without acknowledging that it’s operating in you. So when we do something that’s unwholesome or harmful to another, the very first step in undoing the karmic […]
Chapter 6 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] out. What is going on in inside the person is being pointed out, so the person can work with it in some way, free themselves from those reactive patterns, or what have you. It’s that quality of looking into. Now, when you’re on the receiving end of this, your experience is of being cut. Being […]
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[…] is arising and experience it as completely as possible without getting lost in it. Do I do anything to address the adversity? Well, as long as the reactive patterns are running, it’s generally better not to. If, in the process of practice, my relationship with the emotional reactions shifts, then I’ll be able to see […]
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[…] teacher are three: To show you the possibility of presence To train you in the techniques and methods you will need To direct your attention to the reactive patterns that prevent you from being present in your life Everything else is extra and is usually based on the projections of the student, the teacher, or […]
Chapter 1 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] and we will just ignore it. We just literally won’t see it. When am I being swept away by my own karma, the momentum of my own reactive patterns which makes it impossible for me to practice? When do I have no faith, no confidence and so no inclination? You can do the similar things […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] need, and so forth. And then the third function of a teacher is to point out the stuff in yourself that gets in the way, your own reactive patterns and so forth. Now, most people want all of those three qualities in the same teacher, as functions in the same person. It’s not actually necessary. […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] this is part of his experience, that he can move forward. But this first part is very important, because it describes how those demons get there. They’re reactive patterns reacting to the spiritual opening. Paul: So what should I do? Ken: What we do all along here. You just open to the experience and be […]
Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] of them and touching each of the centers in the body. So today, I want to shift the emphasis of the practice from purification—that is undoing the reactive patterns—to transformation of energy and from there movement into practice of direct awareness. Now some of you who have worked with me before, are familiar with the […]
