Chapter 7 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] be good, so you also cultivated a relationship with Chenrezi, and then yeah, but you’re feeling a little weak in the world, so you meditate on vajra power, which is Vajrapani. So you ended up doing all these different practices. In Indian Buddhism that wasn’t usually the case. A person was given one deity […]
Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] the centers. But when you said relax I just kind of [makes relaxing sound]. Ken: Very important to relax here. This resting quality is where all the power of practice comes from. It doesn’t come from pushing, comes from resting. Anybody else? Your experience. Peter? Peter: I just kept fading in and out. Ken: […]
Chapter 7 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] of practice, and you’re going to serve people much better, you take the lineage holder.’” [Laughter] Student: [Unclear] Ken: Well, it was felt dissemination would reduce its power. So, it was given to just very talented people in each generation. Student: What was the real reason? Ken: And what do you think the real […]
Chapter 34 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] way, what arises in experience is just an experience; it’s not a fact, in the sense that it exists absolutely. And this is not to negate its power and importance, the fact that it affects other things, and so forth, and so forth. But we find that reactions arise when we forget that things […]
Chapter 14 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] transformation of sensory energy, transformation of emotional energy, all of these things. And the idea is you generate these high states of attention and use that to power your practice. But what frequently happens is that people get attached to the high states of energy as ends in themselves. And now they start working […]
Chapter 3 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] is the theme and it’s part of this conversation. Okay? Larry: I don’t know if it’s off-track here, but I am interested in some thoughts on the power of resolve. It seems there’s a continuum here. I’ve heard people talk about resolving not to do something for an hour, a day, a week. And […]
Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Making Things Happen”
[…] helpful. Now as I was putting this together, I thought, “you know, this is interesting.” These correspond to another framework that I use more in connection with power, which we’ll be working with in the spring retreat very explicitly. They’re the four steps of standing up. You have to show up in the situation, […]
Chapter 1 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] mind is precious. May it arise where it has not arisen. May it not fade where it has arisen. May it ever grow and flourish. Through the power of truth of aspirations made with the totally pure mind, Through the inevitability of dependence and conditions totally formed, And through the force of what is […]
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[…] way that environment shapes what does arise. The effect of a technology is far reaching. In Understanding Media, McLuhan writes: The availability of cheap writing materials affected power in the Mediterranean. The Romans depended on papyrus from Egypt. When the supply was cut off by the Muslims, they lost control of the Mediterranean. Parchment […]
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[…] core, there is nothing with which to identify. With the destruction of the ordinary personality, along with its dualistic fixation, all the qualities of being awake — power, openness, insight, and compassion — are free to express themselves in our lives. What is personality? Most people take it to be the complex of behavioral, […]
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[…] what arises in experience to avoid questioning that view of life and what we feel we are. Disillusionment Siddhartha could not simply ignore what he had seen. Power, wealth, and position became meaningless to him in the face of illness, old age, and death. His conception of life and what he was were turned […]
Chapter 5 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] powerful guy, and when he was giving you instruction in the nature of mind, he was not always very subtle. And this instruction was delivered with such power in his presence that it was basically like being picked up by your collar, and said, “Here’s the nature of mind”, and then being thrown against […]
Chapter 3 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] is. In the work environment, even though we may form friendships, it’s really mutual benefit. I’m being paid for my labor, maybe my labor is my brain power, maybe my physical labor, but I’m being paid for that. And that’s the actual basis of the relationship. Be clear about the basis for the relationship […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] the union of all sources of refuge: buddha, dharma, sangha, lama, yidam, protector, so forth. Feel this as deeply as you can, because this is where the power of respectful appreciation and devotion as I was describing in reference to the short Vajradhara prayer at the beginning of the retreat. Traditionally, you’re instructed to […]
Chapter 7 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] just as problematic, a little more enjoyable, but just as problematic—become I am awakened compassion. And as you keep coming back to that, it’s going to gain power. And this is way beyond an intellectual idea. It’s actually very much beyond an emotional idea. This is what is, and you approach it that way. […]