Chapter 5 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] everything will be fine.” [Laughter] How often has that worked? It’s one of the great themes of literature, isn’t it? And, one of the English lords, “All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Student: Is that what you meant by universal selfhood? Ken: Well, that’s one way that people take it, “I’m going to […]
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All beings who have taken a wrong way, the powerful, the arrogant, Those who could not be taught by buddhas throughout all space and time, May I teach each and every one of them And lead them in an instant to buddhahood.
Practice Material
[…] our connection with the direction of our practice and our motivation. Creating the Presence of Amitabha e ma ho Wonderful Buddha Limitless Light, And Great Compassion, Great Power, and others, Buddhas and bodhisattvas beyond reckoning, I pray to you with single-minded devotion. Inspire in me the awakening of Limitless Light. om amidheva hri (Repeat […]
Chapter 10 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] his head. He is naturally present in magnetization regalia. Magnetization is one of the four forms of awakened activity in which you use your personal energy to power what needs to happen. And the color associated with this is red, red of magnetization. So you can imagine this fierce determination, this black monster in […]
Chapter 7 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] that these chants are written in, and you have Lotus Pema Kara, Wisdom Yeshe Tsogyal, etc., Tilo, Naro, Marpa, “please approach and grant your blessings,” all the power is vested there. As students we’re to approach and relate to them very much as a subject to a king, and we receive blessing and guidance […]
Chapter 6 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] head of the Kagyu order, His Holiness Karmapa, came to visit us for a morning. And he gave us a teaching. Now Karmapa—the Sixteenth Karmapa—was a very powerful individual, an extraordinary presence. And while capable of great subtlety, subtlety wasn’t the first thing that came to mind when you were interacting with him. And […]
Chapter 3 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] and cultivating attention mixed with activity Note: Students were not recorded. Ken: If you look at it in the four ways of working: first verse is about power, the second is about ecstasy, third is about insight, and fourth is about compassion. Everybody’s going to look at that and see if that’s of those […]
Chapter 7 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] put it this way. Just do the practice right now. And in addition to doing this, experience the unpleasantness of the pattern. [Pause] What happens? Susan: The power and energy in the pattern sometimes surges so that attention and awareness temporarily drop out, and then I can bring them back. Ken: Okay. The pattern […]
Chapter 3 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] I think in the way he says it is, “In its institutional forms, Buddhism has provided very powerful answers to questions of the spirit. However, sometimes the power of those answers overwhelms the stammering voice which is asking the questions.” And in my own work in Los Angeles, one of the things I’ve always […]
Chapter 6 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] against interruption[s]. Jewel dakini increases wealth. Lotus dakini gathers energy. Action dakini gets everything done. When wanting and grasping hold sway The dakini has you in her power. Wanting nothing from outside, taking things as they come, Know the dakini to be your own mind. The essence of mind is knowing. Know that the […]
Chapter 26 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] the animal and in the plant world and in our brains. There are so many things that function through a process, through evolutionary processes. It’s a very powerful way of looking at things. But it’s not particularly linear. When things build up to a certain point, you find yourself in a new space. And […]
Chapter 2 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] is transference; many of you will know that as phowa. Offering your body as a mandala, that’s number two. The white feast, the red feast, and the power offering. So, that forms another five. And then in the conclusion phase there is dedication, dissolution, and taking it into life. Those three points, that makes […]
Chapter 4 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] encounter very strong feelings. And it’s very likely that all kinds of thoughts, images, associations will arise. This is not journey work, this is the work in power. So you do these exercises in your meditation as a ritual, that is you just go through each step experiencing what arises in each step. But […]
Chapter 9 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] long division in Roman numerals? Yeah, this is where you really appreciate this place holder. So that the principle of being no thing had a lot of power and emptiness is simply what makes everything possible. And as we did at the beginning of this retreat, we look at our experience and it all […]
Chapter 8 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] Now there are huge dangers in this. One of the dangers is, that there is a hierarchy of knowledge, and that that hierarchy can be exploited for power. That’s happened pretty reliably over the last 5,000 years. Not by everyone, but by enough. And at the same time it’s also true that there are […]