[…] of the perfection of wisdom, om gate gate paragate parasamgate bhodhi svaha. And as you recite the mantra, light radiates from her heart, inviting the energy and power of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, lineage teachers, yidams and protectors of the ten directions and the three times. All of this energy pours into Machik […]

[…] Ken: Can you stop there? Franca: [Unclear] Ken: But can you stop there? Franca: No. Ken: No … that’s right. Franca: [Unclear] Ken: People who are using power, and doing evil, they aren’t on this page at all. They’re mind killing. Franca: [Unclear] Ken: Pardon? Don’t keep secrets from yourself Student: [Unclear] Ken: Yes. […]

[…] with that official, but it has its limits. When you can’t resolve the conflict by enrichment, you move to magnetization. Magnetization is to use your own personal power to resolve the conflict. That may be done through challenge, intimidation, threat, withholding cooperation. Boycotts are an example of magnetization. One of the ways that I […]

[…] balloon, goes over to the wag and says, “If you’re me, who am I?” [Laughter] Awareness itself, because of ignorance, is mistaken for a self. Through the power of dualistic fixation, I wander in the realm of existence. It doesn’t exist: even buddhas do not see it. Aspirations for Mahamudra Now, when I first […]

[…] mind,” we don’t see anything. Okay? How long can you stay there? Anybody? Ralph: Just a glimpse. Ken: What happens, Ralph? Ralph: The conceptual mind is so powerful, and its energies are so strong that it feels threatened and like emotions that arise in my body are fear and automatic … [unclear]. Ken: Yeah, […]

[…] your intention at the beginning of the day and concluding the day setting your intention for when you sleep, and so forth. Setting intention is a very powerful way of creating momentum in your practice. The next section: the four reminders. The infamous four thoughts to turn the mind. Everybody in the Tibetan tradition […]

[…] the titan realm you’re always going up against the gods, and they always beat you up. And you’ve got all of this wealth and all of this power and things like that, but there’s always somebody better than you. And you just can never get to the top. Sound like anybody you know? And […]

[…] given them. They weren’t given to everybody, but only those who could really use them, and would really use them. And secondly, a way of preserving the power and energy in the teaching is to restrict it. This is totally contrary to how we approach education and teaching and learning, where we just make […]

[…] at the beginning of this retreat this is learning another language. It’s a mythic language. It’s also a metaphoric language. And in it’s own way it’s very powerful. One of the themes that I found very useful in both practice and in my life, is the theme of balance. And this is certainly some […]

[…] One Two Three …Infinity back in the 50’s. And a google is a one followed by a hundred zeros. A googolplex is ten to raised to the power of one google. Huge numbers. This is not just the value of zero. This is the value of emptiness. It makes anything possible. That’s why I’m giving […]

[…] and often not a very good relationship with the others, which limits their range of responses. I remember a friend and I were doing a program on power actually, which also incorporates work on the elements, for twenty-five women down in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, which is a very conservative part […]

[…] she sees things clearly. Exactly as they are. And again, you may find this a little intimidating—really nowhere to hide. So let yourself feel that. A very powerful, present woman, clad in brilliant white. And she sees you in total clarity, without any sense of threat. How do you respond? And you know you’re […]

[…] off an onion. This to me is a balanced and reasonably safe approach to practice. In the retreat, we were given energy transformation techniques which were very powerful. And unless you have a corresponding ongoing capacity of attention, i.e. mindfulness, weird stuff starts happening. And I’ve definitely come to appreciate, at least for myself, […]

[…] be very, very capable in giving instruction and guiding people in certain contexts. But you put them in another context and their desire for sex, money, fame, power, or whatever, is just right out of control. And the way that you see this is that, when you interact with a person if you hit […]

[…] the ten stages of bodhisattvahood. The lower seven are regarded as the impure stages because all through this there is still some active distortion operating from the power of emotional reactions, even though you have all of this very deep experience of emptiness. And that’s finally finished at the end of the seventh level. […]