[…] many different bumps and wrinkles to it. And there are areas of our life where these intentions, these sentiments, these attitudes; they operate, and they operate very powerfully. And then there are other areas of your life, or other situations, when we become a five year old or a reactive this, or what have […]

[…] are, the less clearly we see things and the more likely we are to do something similar in the future again and again. So, part of the power of doing something as a remedy is that it allows us to let go of it so that we are at peace with it, and the […]

[…] we ordinarily use the word trust, which is very much rooted in a kind of duality. This is one of the reasons why faith is such a powerful and profound aspect of religious practice or spiritual practice, because it is through the experience of faith that we can touch directly into non-separation or non-duality, […]

[…] this way—harping on, is making practice real in the sense of giving it expression in the world, so that there are real consequences. And it’s very, very powerful. I don’t mean making it something like solid but making it real in the sense it actually takes expression in the world, and there are actions […]

[…] purification, in the sense that you’re working on something. And then there’s energy transformation practices in which the purpose is to transform energy into higher states to power attention. Now, primary practice is the first and third. Four immeasurables are the second and third. So because the intention in the primary practice is to […]

[…] your identity—who you think you are, your self image—starts to change. This is something that came up right at the beginning. Maybe you end up feeling more powerful than you realized, and for a lot of people they back off right there saying, “I can’t handle this.” Other people feel more vulnerable, it opens […]

[…] is about familiarizing yourself with that awareness; not with the clarity, not with the non-thought, not with the bliss. Those may arise, and those may fuel or power your attention so that it’s easier to stay in touch with the awareness, but it’s actually about the awareness. It’s not about the experiences. You with […]

[…] a rosary- Expecting, perhaps, to be freed from pain. Some worship a collection of sacred tomes Full of subtle concepts and subtler logic- Confident, perhaps, in the power of reason. Some worship bliss, clarity, emptiness, Or other altered states- Convinced, perhaps, that there is something to gain. Apparently no one told them How to […]

[…] our being consumed by the effects of it. It just burns up, or resolves itself, or dissolves, or whatever metaphor you want to use. It’s very, very powerful, but it does involve experiencing everything that’s going on. Many years ago I was on a phone call, one of my coaching clients, a person back […]

[…] That, you know, there’s a sort of a self-contained cycle of energy sitting in meditation, that maybe it feels a lot more peaceful when you actually feel powerful, or self-contained in some way, you know, like, you feel a certain solidity. When you feel a certain solidity in yourself you actually feel quite peaceful. […]

[…] everything is viewed in terms of money. We actually devalue the intercourse and interaction which binds and makes society society. And we also undermine emotional connections very powerfully. People who are very astute about money understand this very well. Quotation from Henry Ford who certainly understood something about money: “It’s a very sad thing […]

[…] refer more or less to directly to chö. So, that’s another reason I wanted you to have this background. As Kongtrul says, this is not about gaining power. It’s not about developing sorcery abilities. It’s not about being able to heal people. It’s about cutting through what causes disturbance. Chö actually combines a number […]