Chapter 5 of “Finding the Way”
[…] ideas from you. We’ve been saying relatively little. This is how much know how you have available to bring to your practice. And Buddhism is a very powerful tradition, very strong tradition. What we get in the tradition is the distilled experience for whom a certain range of methods worked. Back in the early […]
Chapter 4 of “Finding the Way”
[…] me. Ken: Okay. Guy. Guy: I agree completely that there’s nothing necessarily profound, but I myself realize on this retreat that I have very much underestimated the power of observation as a way of becoming aware of much bigger emotional patterns. So it’s not so much the sensations, it’s just that. For me, that’s […]
Chapter 2 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] hand that has happened in human history is that since the scientific revolution starting in about the 17th century—post Galileo and then Newton, Leibniz and so forth—the power of these methods was so effective, being able to predict how things were going to take place in the world, we became seduced by the idea […]
Chapter 4 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] all beings awaken to buddhahood, or free all beings from samsara. So everything you do in your life is coming from that intention. And it becomes very powerful that way, because even the acts of eating and sleeping and so forth become part of one’s path. Because one is resting, sleeping, in order to […]
Chapter 2 of “Eightfold Path”
[…] thing is because she’d knew that she’d given it her best shot that whatever happened was okay. She wasn’t leaving anything behind. So this is a very powerful way to bring attention into action. Right Livelihood Ken: Now, let’s move on to right livelihood. The usual way right livelihood, is described as not living […]
Chapter 11 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] a fight with one’s spouse or partner. It’s painful, it’s really unpleasant and it leaves you feeling bad afterwards, etc. So I was putting forth a very powerful counterexample. And that caused Art to struggle a little bit. And he’s struggling, but there is something there, even in that, that’s important. And he talked […]
Chapter 3 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] awareness. So there can be sensations of energy moving in the body. There can be very strong emotions arising for seemingly little reason, just things resonate more powerfully and more deeply. And we can also experience much greater clarity and understanding. All of these things arise quite naturally. Okay, thank you, Julia. Presence masquerading […]
Chapter 4 of “Stalking Death”
[…] to here: “The tigress of knowing mind itself is adorned with vivid stripes.” And Milarepa is using this very striking animal imagery to get the sense of power and energy. Student: So, Ken, what you’re basically saying is if we have time or we’re awake enough, if you do just this each time when […]
Chapter 3 of “Stalking Death”
[…] can operate in terms of physical death, in terms of emotional needs, in terms of identity, and any one of those levels may speak to you more powerfully, okay? This is my usual, you know, mix and match scheme. Julia? Julia: This idea is a little bit more referring back. Today you were talking […]
Chapter 5 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] relationship doesn’t work that way, but you could say at a societal level, the German people’s shame led to the desire to feel conquering and invincible and powerful, and that collective nationwide thing led to the emergence of what then existed and stormed the earth and needed to be stopped. And so I think […]
Chapter 3 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] throwing that one in—and you may or may not want to do it—but it can be helpful because when you name something, it tends to lose its power. “Oh, that was marginalization.” “Oh, that was polarization.” “I’m only seeing these two poles.” Just naming. That often allows more to happen. When you’re able to […]
Chapter 2 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] resting in attention. Or you can practice the walking meditation as one breath, one step which is a slower form of walking meditation but can be very powerful in terms of really coming into the experience of walking. And then you do exactly the same thing as we’re doing in sitting. You are in […]
Chapter 9 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] Could you do that again? Ken: Geez, what did I say? I haven’t got a clue. Caroline: That can be something that you can go with quite powerfully. Ken: Well, intuition is a form of knowing. First off, intuition is a very vague word in English. What it actually is referring to is not […]
Chapter 7 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] into English. In the modern era, there aren’t any secrets. There aren’t any sealed texts. To try to maintain sealed texts simply becomes a way of exercising power. And doesn’t actually to serve any purpose. One of the problems in modern times is that the symbolic meaning and the true meaning of these texts […]
Chapter 6 of “Death: Friend or Foe?”
[…] deep breathing was coming out of nowhere. I felt like there was a real release within the tightness, in the constriction I hold, and that was quite powerful. And as far as the meditation itself, it seemed kind of like a brainstorming session with a lot of different possibilities coming to mind. And I […]
