Chapter 14 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] question. And the order is important. What you don’t notice, what you don’t question, what you don’t laugh about. Three key elements Ken: Work with the three primary factors. [Foster three key elements, 2005 ed.] The Great Path of Awakening, p. 39 The three primary factors again are: your teacher, practice, and the conditions […]
Chapter 3 of “A Trackless Path I”
Emotional material Student: So in doing the primary practice, is it important to keep four distinct steps as you practice? For example, when you open to the field, it feels to me like my heart just wants to open—but it’s an important thing to sort of keep those in stages? Ken: What happens to the […]
Chapter 28 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] you’re practicing or not; that’s the first one. Its essence: that’s like “What’s its essential gesture?” In generosity, it’s opening; it’s letting go. Classification: that’s straightforward. The primary characteristics of each class: that’s straightforward. And then, its increase: this would be more about how to develop it, or how to make it stronger or […]
Chapter 2 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] that’s another subject. Of course, when you actually experience that rubber band breaking, it’s a little bit scary, but it’s kind of interesting. Opening the mind: the primary practice Ken: Third one: opening the mind. Well, many of you are familiar with this one too, you know this as the primary practice. If you’ve used […]
Chapter 5 of “Power and Presence”
Expanding the visual field in the primary practice Jeff: So, as I sat in the corner, listening to what a lot of you had to say in interviews yesterday, I thought it might be good to point out that the approach to primary practice we went over the other morning, it’s just one approach. We […]
Chapter 2 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] so forth and not be killed by them, not be driven off by them, so the princess stays awake. That’s presence. Last night, I gave you the primary practice which is a practice of the genre called direct awareness. It moves you directly into awareness and presence. It’s a simple practice. It does the job. […]
Chapter 5 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] body and breath and mind are resting, then ask the question, “What is mind?” This is very equivalent to asking the question, “What experiences this?” in the primary practice that I taught a few days ago. When you ask this question, number one, do not try to answer it, because if you do, you immediately […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] detect that some kind of shift has taken place. And then they may push or challenge the student to see how stable that shift is. In the primary Kagyu training text, which is The Ocean Of Definitive Meaning, the title under which has been translated in the Instructions To The Teacher, it says, at […]
Chapter 6 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] you a number of ways of looking, a number of tools how to raise the level of energy, which can be done through guru yoga, or the primary practice, or other methods. And the purpose of raising the energy is so that you can stay in the looking without the attention being disrupted by the […]
Chapter 1 of “Heart Sutra Workshop”
[…] many of you would like to know this absorption? Oh, you know this absorption, do you? Oh, good. So, let’s spend a few minutes. Profound radiance: the primary practice Ken: Now, if you are going to have all elements of experience, it’s probably better if you have your eyes open, so you aren’t shutting things […]
Chapter 4 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] ready. For your practice this evening, I want you to continue with alternating the taking and sending and moving into the direct experience. These are the two primary techniques we’re going to be using. If you find the spell-breakers that I mentioned today helpful, by all means use them, they’re very useful, not only […]
Chapter 4 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] kaya, which is fifth one, so we’ll throw in the sixth one so we can hang that out in the six syllables too. You have the six primary emotions: anger, which is connected to the hell realm, and greed, hungry ghost realm, and instinct to the animal realm, and desire with the human realm, […]
Chapter 10 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] as we’ve been calling it. And yesterday afternoon I introduced you to another way of just letting the attention rest in presence. Some people call this the primary practice—it may have other names that I’m not aware of—focus, field, internal material, presence. Now, when you rest like that in the totality of your experience—which means […]
Chapter 6 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] practices were so male dominated. And that’s one of the reasons why Machik Labdron stands out as a key figure. Yeshe Tsogyal and Machik Labdron are the primary female teachers in the Tibetan tradition. Yes? Student: Wasn’t there an overall balance, though, in the energy of a particular moment? In other words, we are […]
Chapter 6 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] and you are awake in it. That’s why you need a high level of attention, which is why I recommend you do either guru yoga or the primary practice on a regular basis. Because that’s what helps to raise the level of attention. Student: When you’re asleep and you’re dreaming and you’re aware that you’re […]
