[…] over the last couple of days, I mean, it’s really, really high-level stuff. If you put this in the Catholic tradition, in terms of the study of prayer, this is the very highest level of prayer in the Catholic tradition. And because it’s so readily available to us, we often don’t appreciate just how […]

[…] becomes … or in effect it becomes unrestricted. So it becomes very, very alive. Juice. Sonia? Sonia: You made reference to buddha mind and with the refuge prayer, it’s like we want what’s been coming up in practice. But when I do the sky-gazing the lines remind me of the experience of the sky-gazing. […]

[…] feel very unprepared. Peri: Very. Ken: Okay. Peri: Thank you. Ken: Anybody else? Joe? Joe: I just had one thought. Somebody said, maybe you said, about the prayer, we get to the part where we say the line “May I live a life of no regret.” Apropos of this subject and whenever I get […]

[…] [laughs] okay? And if they don’t unfold in the way that’s satisfactory, then you can take your question up again. Okay. So this, opening lines to this prayer, it’s kind of a strange opening to a prayer, isn’t it? “All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, […]

[…] outlook and practice, but not behavior. Ken: Which is that you’re studying? I can’t read that from here. Oh, this is somebody else’s translation of the mahamudra prayer. Mary: It’s your translation. Look on the back page. Ken: This is a very old one. Oh, good God. You’re right. Dear, dear, dear. Okay, the […]

[…] to do this evening. The awareness that there is nothing other than mind. The awareness that there is nothing other than mind. Find this in the mahamudra prayer. Look at objects, and there is no object: one sees mind. Aspirations for Mahamudra That’s what we’re going to do this evening. That’s cool. And then […]

[…] ground natural awareness—what is. Internal and external distortions do not touch me. The stupor of mindlessness does not conceal me. Projections do not contaminate me. Ever-present Good’s Prayer of Intention etc. That’s basis of everything. Okay. Over the page. First, the fourth stanza. First, for confused beings Ground awareness does not arise. That blankness, […]

[…] So, by meditating on every one of those, explicitly, you’re actually covering the whole range. And that’s a very traditional method of doing so. I have a prayer with me which Jamgön Kongtrül wrote called The Mind Training Prayer. It’s never been translated into English that I know of. And he just goes through […]

[…] in a certain sense your mind is always at rest. One of the ways this is accomplished through mantra, and in the Christian tradition through the centering prayer, is that you repeat mantra, and it can be a mantra like om mani padme hum, or the centering prayer or whatever. You repeat it literally […]

[…] take refuge in all the Buddhas, the supreme beings among the two-leggeds. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Gampopa, Konchog Gyaltsen (translator), p. 141 That’s literally what the prayer says. In Tibetan it’s rkang gnyis rnams kyi mchog (pron. kang nyi nam kyi cho(k)), which means the “supreme among the two-leggeds” which refers, of course, […]

[…] of refuge. So don’t look it up in your books. please. I’m going to give you a very short instructional meditation for this. You notice in the prayer that we do at the beginning of the class. Could you read that Randye? Or just let me, because you don’t have the mic. Yeah. The […]

[…] 72, Gyaltsen]. It means one can maintain meditative concentration, and “if born in the desired world one will not be affected by its faults.” Well, in the prayer that we do at the beginning we say, “Suffering is present in all six realms, may I not be born in those states.” Now in mythic […]

[…] knocked on the door. Knock, knock. Nothing. She just continued praying. So then he knocked a little louder. The only response was an increased volume in the prayers. Finally he knocked very loudly and says, “Mrs. Phan, it’s the village elder, please come down I need to speak with you.” There was a crash […]

[…] because I’m not getting from it what I want.” There’s a story. One of the Nasrudin stories. Nasrudin went to the minaret to do the call for prayer. Shortly after he did the call, he was seen running like mad away from the minaret. Somebody called out to him and said, “Nasrudin, what are […]