Practice Material
[…] sung spontaneously by Karma Rangjung Kunchab (Kalu Rinpoche) at the request of the diligent practitioner Karma Sherab. Through this prayer, may the energy of the glorious teachers enter his heart. This song of devotion was translated by Ken McLeod at the request of Daniel Boschero, who wished to use it to cultivate faith and devotion.
Practice Material
[…] you keep going all the time. What is a measure of progress? Night-time sheer clarity takes hold. What are signs that you are on the right path? Faith, compassion and wisdom grow through their own momentum. How does direct experience come easily with little difficulty? You will know this through your own experience. Why […]
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[…] and my own limited experience. Traditionally, in doing yidam practice, one uses a form that symbolizes the awake ideal or the reactive emotion. These forms have been faithfully handed down from generation to generation. But once we genuinely know the principles, you could, as Kongtrül famously said, use the personality of a clay cup. […]
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[…] nothing actually there. There is no one to be. To experience ourselves that way isn’t a contradiction. It involves a deeper sense of dying. This is where faith connects with the practice of insight. The door here is emptiness or openness. There is nothing to hold onto. Change shows us that we will not […]
Chapter 3 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] last? Ken: Now, what are the conditions that make a relationship last? Well, there are a couple, three or four. The first is, you have to be faithful to the basis of the relationship. In a mutual benefit relationship, if you cheat—if I’m buying something from you and I give you counterfeit money—that’s not […]
Chapter 6 of “Power and Presence”
[…] he’s got to fulfill. So he is on his horse and he’s galloping towards the black mountain where he can find the white bird. And again, his faithful horse companion carries him very, very far until finally they come in sight of the huge black mountain. There’s nothing growing on the mountain. It’s utterly […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] emotions. We even regard our emotions as something Other—anger took me over. I’ve been blinded by love, this other force which is somehow acting on us. My faith got me through the situation. We talk like this, there’s always a sense of Other and then there’s obsessions with pleasure and power, kind of a […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] to give up everything that you think you know and is familiar to you … [Unclear] And then the deeper you go, maybe it’s less based on faith, and there’s more … [unclear] you experience, let’s say. You take it all the way ultimately to include everything. Ken: Right? Okay. So, it’s an ongoing […]
Chapter 10 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] just be with what is and really feel some confidence that that’s going to work. And that’s what I really appreciate. I feel like I have more faith that I can do that because I have a better belief it’s going to work, it’s going to produce a result. And, thank you very much. […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] but also to how to work with myself, so I’m unlikely to go in those directions again. And when I hear a person saying, “I can’t have faith in this practice because so-and-so is behaving this way,” my heart wants to cry out because such a person is closing a door on their own […]
Chapter 11 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] Ken: The way that Tibetan Buddhism is set up—this may or may not be apparent to you—but the way that I wrote this book is actually very faithful to the way Tibetan Buddhism is organized. In one sense we’ve left out a step, which caused some problems in the way that people were practicing […]
Chapter 6 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] itself. Milarepa’s Song to Lady Paldarboom I’ll give you a secret instruction on this. Learn to breathe underwater. What do I mean by that? Pam? Pam: Have faith. [Laughter] Ken: Well, it’s certainly one interpretation of it. Actually, I mean something slightly different. Yes. Student: I was going to say learn to come up […]
Chapter 2 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] Kagyu tradition, but generally in Vajrayana. Vajrayana, by and large, is devotional in nature. And I want to say something about devotion. Devotion does not mean blind faith. The term in Tibetan is mos gus (pron. mu gu) which is probably best translated, clumsily, as respectful appreciation. That doesn’t have enough juice in it […]
Chapter 2 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] as: constantly being swallowed by anger, or greed, or survival issues, constantly distracted by sensory pleasures and the desire to satisfy them, inability to understand people, lacking faith, not having the opportunity to practice, and so forth. So, how do I know what experience? It is an invitation to consider what you actually experience […]
Chapter 5 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] that would be a fruitful way for you, and some people do, then please proceed. That’s on your own. You’re here, clearly out of some form of faith and trust and also appreciation, from what you’ve said. So, find things that speak to you. And it may not be the Perfection of Wisdom sutras. […]
