Chapter 19 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] a path where you continuously open to what you don’t know. So it’s a path of exploration and opening. It’s a step that’s a representation of a faith in a process. So it’s a combination really of a commitment and a step into faith. Why does taking refuge have such power? Ken: And why […]
Chapter 9 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] know who you are, right? How do you define yourself now? Randye: I guess by certain agendas. Ken: Yeah. How’s that working? Randy: Confusion and struggle. Where faith comes in Ken: [Laughs] So one way of looking at this whole section that we’re going to be dealing with is formulating a different view of […]
Chapter 6 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] I don’t know when exactly that happened, but that’s an aside. We can come back to that, if it’s relevant another time. Last week we talked about faith, and I posed a distinction between faith and belief, which many of you corroborated through your own experience. When you thought of belief there was a […]
Chapter 5 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] “For us there is only the trying, the rest is not our business.” And you can see when we look at it this way, the importance of faith, just opening to whatever’s there. You can’t control it, don’t control it, and you just open to it. Again, from Four Quartets, “Wait without hope, for […]
Chapter 2 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] everything, yeah. Because in that, there is a seeing through all the facades. A seeing through, in which there is no judgment. Catherine. Catherine: And you’re also having faith that the world can see you, just as you are. That occurred to me. Ken: Well, I think that we go around most of the time […]
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[…] appeal to the higher emotions, namely, love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Institutions and movements can be built on the basis of love (e.g., healing communities, communities of faith and devotion), compassion (e.g., communities of service) and joy (e.g., communities of accomplishment), but equanimity is more of a challenge, as it requires people to be […]
Practice Material
[…] and beliefDistance themselves from spiritual principles.All their acts and blindness I take into me.I give to all beings, in their infinities,Such virtues as the three kinds of faith.6May they know deeply within That the results of their actions can’t be avoidedAnd cultivate virtue as they give up sin.A mind that takes its own confusion […]
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[…] the Guru from Afar1 namo gurave Everyone knows the form of prayer called a call to the guru from afar. The key to invoking the energy of faith is devotion, devotion that is inspired by both disillusionment and determination,2 devotion that comes not merely from your lips mouthing the words but from the depths […]
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Compassion is the difference between a faith that opens you to what life brings and beliefs that force you to close down to protect what you cannot or will not question. Compassion enables you to accept and appreciate the experience of those with whom you have differences. In difficult situations, it leads you to […]
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[…] wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the […]
Chapter 10 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] of a symbol of a place called Sukhavati—which means the land of bliss or the realm of joy—in which can be attained, purely through the power of faith, through the vow of universal redemption, that all who call upon my name will be saved. And so this is what is being invoked. That faith, […]
Chapter 6 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] And what happened in the 19th century, and this is very, very understandable, but also from my point of view, quite tragic, is that people felt their faith was being taken away from them by all of these scientific concepts and so forth. And when they looked at how that was happening, they saw […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] compassion like the Buddha, who offered his body to a tigress, an understanding of emptiness that is like the sky, infinite without limit, and a very deep faith. I can’t remember the metaphor that he used for faith but it was something similarly dramatic. You sort of read it and go, “Oh, what’s the […]
Chapter 3 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] of expectation. But trust that we’re talking about here has no quality of expectation. Then what do we trust? Refuge is the basic formulation in Buddhism of faith, confidence, trust: go for refuge in the three jewels. In the Tibetan tradition, these are interpreted on several levels. And in the beginning, as the Dalai […]
Chapter 7 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] have all of these longings in us. “I want this. I want that.” And as many of you experience when you worked with the longing form of faith, all of those other longings said, “Oh, longing? Yeah,” and they jumped on board. Now, the instructions I’ve given you here is, you don’t try to […]
