[…] sit physically with that, how do you feel? And very often they’ll go, “Oh.” Their body knows what it wants to do. And so you work with direct perception; you work with what you know in experience, in yourself, which includes physical awareness, awareness of physical sensations, awareness of emotional sensations, and awareness of […]

[…] how it’s very helpful when you’re practicing to focus on one practice and go very, very deep in it. This actually is pretty well necessary. Our retreat director, his practice was mahamudra, it was just literally all he did. He taught three, three-year retreats, and after that Rinpoche let him go into retreat himself. […]

[…] things back into balance. So, that’s about all I can say at this point. It’s what moves things back into balance. And that is an intuitive, or direct knowing, that arises from presence. Student: [Unclear] Ken: Standing up. Student: [Unclear] Ken: Understanding, inclusion, service. I know, it’s like in martial arts class. Step with your […]

[…] in this context, define as a radiant warmth. And it’s just there. It’s not something that’s contrived. It’s not something that is manufactured or artificial. It comes directly out of letting the experience of receiving kindness in. [Unclear] And the natural response is loving kindness. And that’s what we feel for others, that radiant […]

[…] change but there isn’t anything which moves or anything like that. These are actually experiences which arise when you have a sufficient capacity in attention and you direct it in certain ways. Michelle? Michelle: I’m sorry. I’m stuck on a question about buddhas and bodhisattvas. Do you mind if we go back to that? […]

[…] masters of this whole process of the evolution of societies, that we can really determine how societies will evolve and make sure they evolve in the right direction, but we don’t have a very good track record for that actually. So, that whole notion of progress when it’s linked with spiritual values becomes quite […]

[…] learning lots of stuff. It’s about knowing what our experience actually is, how it actually is. And the reason is—and that knowing isn’t an understanding, it’s a direct knowing—because when we know it that way, then we can truly rest. And we experience peace, and we are free from the reactivity, because when things arise, […]

[…] Peri: Right. But I guess for me, rather than to think about trying to open, the question is— Ken: I want to go in a slightly different direction. And this comes under the rubric of this wonderful phrase in Tibetan: dag pa gnyis ldan gyi chos sku (pron. dakpa nyi den gyi chö ku)—which […]

[…] people because he was taking this point of view: One dharma, and nothing has any real existence. And there are other Theravadin teachers who’ve moved in that direction. And that’s still a debate about what is the ontological status of what we experience. Now, as Bill was saying the prajñā schools never really concerned […]

[…] to work with experience? And how to experience it? And if you know how to do that, that’s fine, whatever you call it. Anybody else? Nava: 37: Direct all the goodness generated by this effort to awakening. Well, I think I know what it means after we meditate. How do you do it every […]

[…] human destiny and the meaning of life. The teacher, faced with impatience, confusion and covetousness on the part of the students [no names will be mentioned] must direct them to an activity which is known by him to be constructive and beneficial to them but whose true function and aim is often hidden from […]

[…] here. I’ve got to go and find the source of all riches.” So he starts his journey and he asks around, people that he meets, “Can you direct me to someone who can tell me where to find the source of all riches?” And he’s sent from one person to another. And he wanders […]

[…] Gampopa, Herbert Guenther (translator), p. 187 Just where you want to be. Knowing arises when mind is quiet Ken: Then the next term that I want to direct your attention to is supersensible cognition [Guenther, page 187], and clairvoyance [Gyaltsen, page 219]. We associate these terms with extrasensory perception on which there have been […]

[…] differently, because I find that the frequency and the intensity with which people feel deficient in relationship to the world around them, I feel needs a more direct approach. And so in Wake Up To Your Life, it’s very directly focused on that. And these verses, not quite as directly, but you probably noticed […]

[…] you cultivate it through meditation practice so that it really becomes part of you, or you remove whatever is inside you that prevents you from living that directly. So we’re going to be working primarily—in the context of this class—with the first two, because practice just takes a lot more time. In terms of […]