[…] and Freedom. And you can read it. It’s not a full exposition, but we’ve gone into them in great detail in some of the Warrior’s Solution and Power retreats. What I want to turn attention to is another four I came across not too long ago which come from our old friend, Francis Bacon, […]

[…] ruled by wanting. Because you cannot get at the basic emotional drives intellectually, or conceptually. The intellect or that level of functioning simply does not have enough power or energy to meet emotional drives with any effectiveness. Now, he says, you listeners, but what he’s referring to are these tendencies to take an intellectual […]

[…] itself With no name and no home. Simple is he, without distinction. To all appearances he is a fool. His steps leave no trace. He has no power. He achieves nothing, has no reputation. Since he judges no one, No one judges him. Such is the perfect man. His boat is empty. p. 115 […]

[…] internal processes. Troubled by your peaceful or other primary absorption, the spirits that live in that same haunted area cannot bear the overwhelming brilliance of the yogin’s power of reality, and they become agitated. In order to interfere with the yogin’s practice, a spirit relies on any resources of its own, or summons other […]

[…] disk of the moon, above this the letter hung, or the syllable hung, brilliantly white in color. Light radiates, shines from the hung, inviting the energy and power of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, teachers of the lineage in the ten directions. All this energy and power comes into Machik’s heart. Around the hung […]

[…] all the other elements and now they all vibrate together and they radiate light and this light fills your body. Now imagine as you rest in your power location, your power place. Sitting facing the vista, you open your eyes and you look out over the vista and you feel all of the elements […]

[…] in behavior is that people who are doing this will have these areas of their lives which are somewhat out of control. Maybe obsession with sex, money, power—they’re the usual culprits. It can be other stuff, but those are the usual ones. When they’re teaching they can be extremely good, but in other parts […]

[…] the guru yoga, you’re going to be alternating between pushing and resting. When you’re opening to all the sensory sensations you’re pushing a bit—there’s an exercise of power in that, but once it opens and you’re there, stop and just rest in it. Don’t keep pushing. This becomes extremely important when we move into […]

[…] you only get angry when you feel weaker than what’s opposing you. They hate that part. “But I don’t feel weaker than anything! I got all the power here. Why should I? Rrrrrrrrr!” Student: … pop a Xanax … Ken: … or something or have an aneurysm or whatever. But it’s great fun. Because, […]

[…] way of experiencing: sense of self, sense of other, etc. And so it becomes an expression of awareness, pure and simple. … can expand it through the power of discriminating … The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Konchog Gyaltsen (translator), p. 191 Sorry, just finish that one… This is the realization that the giver is […]

[…] subject to the reactive emotions. Actually it’s even worse, because now you have a higher level of energy in your system, so as that energy decays it powers the emotional reactions more powerfully than before. And then the other two things follow by themselves. Because one’s more caught up in reactive emotions, one doesn’t […]

[…] the back here relating how it was sufficient for one individual. These are quite wonderful stories to read. But let me just touch on these briefly. The power of regret or remorse Ken: The power of remorse or regret involves two or three things. One is acknowledgment: “I did this.” So there is no […]

[…] values also helps you to negotiate situations when you don’t want to take the kind of risks that I was just talking about. Okay? Jeff: In the power method you just went through, there are no boundaries, right? You’re not trying to draw a boundary in order to act? If there is a boundary […]

[…] with that. And that’s similarly challenging, especially if it’s a deep issue. And again there will be lots of stories. But they won’t quite have the same power ’cause you’ve already taken a step. Eventually we’re able to be in the body sensations, the emotional sensations, and all of the stories and associations. Now […]

[…] Chuck? Microphone over there. Chuck: Awake, enthused, loving, generous and connected. Ken: Okay. Anybody else? Katherine? Katherine: Powerful. Ken: Okay. You got four more. Katherine: Powerful, powerful, power … [laughter], spontaneous, fearless, creative, generous, joyful, aware, dangerous? Ken: Good. Anybody else? Lynea? Lynea: You asked what makes you feel alive? Ken: Yeah. Lynea: I […]