Chapter 7 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] fear. So we don’t have to go particularly hunting for anything. It’s always there. And rather than going hunting for and making big stories to get very powerful emotions, put your attention on cultivating the quality of attention. So that whatever arises, you can actually be there. Okay? It’s less exciting, but … Judy. […]
Chapter 5 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] are madly looking at your crib sheets. [Unrecorded] But what’s your experience when you feel your awakened compassion? What’s your experience? [Unrecorded] So, you have a more powerful experience of loving-kindness. I’ll come back to that point in a minute. Are you all agreed that the four immeasurables are there? And how available are […]
Chapter 12 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] but we’re waking up something that’s already there. That may sound very mysterious, but to me that resonates even on an emotional level. But there is a power. I mentioned Gurdjieff earlier, his term for practice was self remembering. We don’t use the word self here, but remembering is a very interesting term, because […]
Chapter 11 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] own evolution, or some would argue, maturation as a teacher. Many years ago, I heard of a comment by Maezumi Roshi when someone had talked about how powerful a certain Zen teacher was, who was really strict, and very harsh with the students and drove them. And Maezumi Roshi’s comment was, “It’s quite easy […]
Chapter 10 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] comment, but approaching emotions or what happens with curiosity, I think is a really good attitude. And, I loved the part about kindness, I think it’s so powerful. Student: To go deep into the of the ache of the heart. Student: I like the fact that you opened up to me my world vs. […]
Chapter 6 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] of Buddhism is littered with these terms, because as soon as they become a belief system or something that you believe in, they can lose all their power to help people. And they actually become a hindrance. And there’s a wonderful quote, one of my favorite quotes from Saraha, who was an Indian master. […]
Chapter 5 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] It’s how he wanted to live. But these instructions really aren’t to be taken literally. They’re poetry, they’re movement in a certain direction, and they’re very, very powerful that way. But if you take it literally, it is like taking the story of the Second Coming, the Messiah, literally. The whole myth of the […]
Chapter 5 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] Is that what you’re saying? Sue: Not that I don’t have to do nothing anymore. I mean, opportunities to step out and do nothing are very a powerful reminder. Sometimes life can pick up, sometimes I can get caught up, but for the most part I pretty much increasingly have learned just to step […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] of others, it’s just not very practical. My teacher said something very interesting when he was teaching this on one occasion. Suppose that you actually had the power to take in all of the suffering of the world: all of the famine, all of the illness, all of the pain, all of the war, […]
Chapter 2 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] place, a bed. For those who need a servant, may I be their slave. May I be the wishing jewel, the vase of wealth, A word of power and the supreme healing. May I be the tree of miracles, For every being the abundant cow. (which is a thing from Indian mythology) Just like […]
Chapter 1 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] to his guest. Now Bay-Akal, not knowing what had gone before, started to think how he could perform a similar wonder. He knew that dervishes had strange powers and concluded that it was necessary only to beat them to obtain gold. So he arranged for a feast to be held to which every dervish […]
Chapter 2 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] in the retreat, the head of our order, the 16th Karmapa, visited us. Now the 16th Karmapa was a very, very interesting person, a person of extraordinary power. When you’re in the same room as him, it was just like, what’s going on here? When I was married, my wife—who also did the three-year […]
Chapter 3 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] nourishing all who can draw in the moisture. And from these kinds of similes, you get the idea that you become something very, very big and very powerful and very wonderful, but that’s entirely misleading. In the Chinese tradition, you get such things as: the accomplished person leaves no traces whatsoever, disappears and is […]
Chapter 1 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] for a half an hour, doing qigong, sitting for a half an hour and so forth. If you have regular practices, such as taking and sending, or power practice, or Chenrezi some of you are doing, death meditations, whatever. Use one of those half-hour sessions—if you have two then you can use two—most of […]
Chapter 7 of “Finding the Way”
[…] gold to his guest. Bay-Akal not knowing what had gone before, started to think how he could perform a similar wonder. He knew that dervishes had strange powers and concluded that it was necessary only to beat them to obtain gold. So he arranged for a feast to be held to which every dervish […]
