Chapter 4 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] so much about doing things right, as about being completely in the experience of whatever we are feeling or doing at every moment. Now, there’s a very powerful effect that comes from that. That is, when you are right in the experience, then you will sense in the moment what is in balance, what […]
Chapter 5 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] exactly what we are doing here today, moved right into the experience of what was arising and found nothing there. Non-self. And this occurred because of the power of his attention that he’d trained previously at a very, very profound level. He found absolutely nothing there. And when you read the traditional accounts, it […]
Chapter 6 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] is an extraordinarily sacred object. Really important, you never let anybody touch your rosary, got all of the sorcery-cult stuff going on with it, your vehicle to power. So, very important. And he threw it down a latrine, which, in Indian culture, you just don’t do with sacred objects. And he said, “The hell […]
Chapter 4 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] stop, the energy that you’ve developed in your practice, because you’ve developed a higher level of energy, you’re over the beginning stages, that energy will dissipate and power the patterns even more so that if you stop at this point, you’re going to be worse off than when you started. Tibetan expression, “Perhaps better […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] 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 feeling one is divine, eternal in some way. And then there’s, of course, obsession with a sense of self, the inflation that comes […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] wielding a sword. I mean, when you read his stuff, you feel like he carved what he’s saying into the paper with a sword. It’s just extraordinarily powerful writing I’ve never read anything like it in Tibetan or English. And he says that for the practice of chö, you need three qualities in order […]
Chapter 10 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] verse 29 There are two qualities that you need in your attention. One is stability, which is what the stillness is referring to. Stability is where the power comes from. Insight is where that cutting quality comes from. You see into things and in Buddhist context, to see into the working of things, reactive […]
Chapter 1 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] beginning of one of his books—I’m paraphrasing this a bit—”In its institutional forms, Buddhism has provided very powerful answers to questions of the spirit, but sometimes the power of those answers overwhelms the stammering voice which asks the questions.” And one of the things that I want to bring out in our work together […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] the other religions but that’s another matter. He definitely uses the word gods as something that we regard as higher or superior and has some kind of power and intervene in this. Now, the way that my colleague Michael Conklin and I, and a lot of other people now, approach this is, what are […]
Chapter 8 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] intense physical and emotional pain. I say physical, because the emotional pain of such a happening in one’s life, there is pain in the body from the power of the emotions. And you open to that, and you experience that to the best of your ability. What happens here is you step out of […]
Chapter 11 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] the sun shines on it. That energy is experienced as highly emotionally charged thoughts. You have these thoughts which are absolute total insanity, but they’ve got tremendous power in them. And they’re very often, most of the time, they’re connected with a sense of who you are. So you really feel like your identity […]
Chapter 4 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] actually don’t have a lot of experience with this practice. But it feels like two vast seas coming together at the same time. And it’s physically quite powerful. Ken: Yeah. So,? Marie: I have the sense that building capacity is really important. Ken: Sure. That’s why you practice. Marie: To be a container for […]
Chapter 9 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] it may increase your confidence in practicing. In terms of actually changing how you experience the world, or how you interact with experience, it has relatively little power. There just isn’t enough energy in intellectual understanding to effect very much change. As you continue in practice and the mind becomes quieter, body in balance, […]
Chapter 6 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] I have a very, very good supply. Now, it’s like the movement of the ocean. There are all of the waves. And this is a very, very powerful storm. You go down ten feet and there’s very, very little motion. In a very, very powerful storm, maybe you have to go down 20 or […]
Chapter 8 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] of open awareness. And that’s one of the essential methods of the Vajrayana. In the Theravadan tradition, one uses loving kindness to transform experience into attention and power attention. In the Mahayana path, you use compassion. That’s what bodhicitta is about. In Vajrayana: it’s faith and devotion. If, as is the case for some […]
