Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] that. And that’s what’s important. You are praying to awakened compassion. It just happens to be in this form, to give you a form to which to direct your feelings of appreciation, or respect, or whatever. But always come back to the idea that it’s awakened compassion, great compassion, and that is what this […]
Chapter 1 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] And we can create dense space or we can create open space, and it really changes your experience. Second part of the period will be drawing more directly on my Feldenkrais training using Awareness Through Movement lessons. They’re similar in that you create a simple intention of movement. We add a constraint. So, “Lie […]
Chapter 1 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] put it at the back of the book, on page 44), is by Kenichi Ohmae, “Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” The purpose of interviews Ken: And that is the main function of the interviews that we have on a daily basis. It’s why I started working […]
Chapter 5 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] we’re going to ask everybody to walk clockwise around the room. You can walk at your own pace, but we’re all going to walk in the same direction, to reduce the likelihood of collisions and other things like that. So, you just walk quite naturally, with the attention in the walking. The first recommendation […]
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[…] and practices that the modern world makes accessible. For instance, the groundwork or foundational practices in the Tibetan traditions (sngon.’gro) were originally developed as a preparation for direct awareness (mahamudra) training. The practices are not well suited to life in the West, and the expectation to complete this set of practices became an obstacle […]
Practice Material
When you open and relax, There is an emptiness that goes beyond true or false. Here, if you know arising release, natural release and direct release, You are no different from all the awakened ones. You are awake and no different from me.
Practice Material
[…] kama and terma lineages,11 think of me.Look upon me from the vastness of indivisible pristine awareness.Break through the darkness of my confused mindAnd bring the dawn of direct understanding. Complete knowing Trimé Özer,12 think of me.Look upon me from the vastness of the five naturally present lights.Help me to master how to be in […]
Chapter 10 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] an eye looking at compassion, looking at suffering. And this is the origin of the thousand-armed form of Avalokiteshvara, who has 13 heads actually, looking in all directions at all times. But Avalokiteshvara is not content because he’s seen how vast and extensive the suffering of the world is. And in contemplating that, a […]
Chapter 5 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] known as the four demonic obsessions, and there are various remedies or ways to cut through them. I’m going to give you two sets. One is very direct and to the point, and the other are phrases, a set of four phrases that you can use to recall presence. Yes? Dissolving the solidity of reactive […]
Chapter 1 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] seeing. And what happens when you do that? Student: Poof Ken: Yeah, “poof.” That’s what the line means. “Even the remedy releases naturally.” That is, when you direct attention right into it, what is it? It releases naturally. You don’t have to do anything else. You don’t have to push it away, or try […]
Practice Material
[…] and downfall. Through my awakened intentionMay beings inflated with self-importanceLet knowing relax in its own place.As awareness finds its own place,May they know the meaning of balance directly. The habituated tendencies that reinforce dualismLead to the pain of self-praise and criticism of others.They become increasingly quarrelsome and cutthroat,Titans, slashing and killing,And as a result, […]
Practice Material
[…] give up sin.A mind that takes its own confusion as real,The origin of struggle and pain, I take into me.I give to all beings, in their infinities,The direct experience of emptiness and non-self.May they know directly profound emptiness And come to complete awakening.In summary, to meet what you don’t like,Such as the sixteen threats,7To […]
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[…] regarded as unavoidable and deeply habituated patterns of misperception that confuse our understanding of what we experience. The fundamental block, in this model, is the lack of direct knowing of what we are. (Ask yourself, “What am I?” If you observe closely, you will see that there is first a moment of clarity in in […]
Chapter 3 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] it’s a rather interesting look at what happened to the Crow Indians and the approach that their last great chief, whose name is Chief Plenty Coups, the direction he pointed when they were herded onto reservations and their whole way of life is destroyed. And there he talks about a certain kind of courage, […]
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[…] God’s grace enters a sincere mind, through the action of grace that person is freed from the reactivity that gave rise to the original transgression. But this direct intervention by a higher power into the mindstream of another person is not a Buddhist notion. You may forgive me—that is to say, you may forgive […]
