Chapter 3 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] I pray. Ken: What this line is describing is letting yourself feel that longing so deeply that it makes chaos out of all of your habituated patterns, reactive patterns, because that’s what comprises samsara. It’s a scary place to go to for a lot of people. For some, it’s actually quite an easy place to […]
Chapter 25 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] a very, very far reaching intention. This make sense to everybody? Okay. Randye: Along those lines, because I was editing all your teachings in the book about reactive patterns and dismantling, in that same vein with despair, what really struck me in thinking about despair and then listening to so much of that chapter in […]
Chapter 9 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] samsara? Ken: Now, what is samsara? It’s the six realms of existence, which means it’s living in one or more of the worlds which are projected by reactive emotions. Well, when you’re in the grip of a reactive emotion how much happiness do you experience? It’s always painful, isn’t it? Yeah. So really appreciating […]
Chapter 1 of “Four Immeasurables”
Reactive vs. higher emotions Ken: We’re going to begin what is a six session class on the four immeasurables. As all of you know, we’re going to be meeting every other week, not every week as we have in the past. On the alternate weeks the regular Tuesday group will be meeting here. […]
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[…] feel abandoned, bereft, heartbroken, and lost. At the point when prayer seems futile and hopeless, when we feel we can no longer tolerate the raging of these reactive patterns, something else begins to form. As one practitioner said, “Gates look like corners, until you go through them.” Unexpectedly, we leave behind the world of emotional […]
Practice Material
[…] turn your back on the natural path? Because you are enthralled by mistaken beliefs,Your puritanical practice is lopsided,Based as it is on some flawed metaphysical theory —How reactive you are, you irrational extremists! Mind itself, originally pure, is like space.As long as you look for it with conceptual tools,You are like a bug encasing […]
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[…] as not to waste the pith instructions.Although I haven’t visited frightening burial grounds,I haven’t seen any place more frightening thanAttitudes based on the poisons of the five reactive emotions1And the eight concerns about conventional success.2To these, I applied practice the way rock meets bone:The eight concerns dissolved like a rainbow,The poisons of reactive emotions […]
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[…] the situation, when it isn’t what we intended to say, or how we intended to say it. We will hear, with our own ears, the different emotional patterns that take over our speech. We will hear how what we say doesn’t fit with our intention, how it comes out of our confusion, how it […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] is fine, and you let your mind rest there. Then as you breathe out, you imagine hūm coming out of your heart. And all of your negativity, reactive patterns, confusion, bewilderment, etc. going out and just being dispersed, so it’s gone. This is traditionally done with om ah hūm. The om is white. The ah […]
Chapter 5 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] disc of the moon. And it’s got that quality. The coolness, in a sense, not a coldness, but the refreshing coolness of compassion after the heat of reactive emotion. So you can think of it. It’s mixing metaphors a little bit, but basking in the cool silvery light of the moon, and radiating this […]
Chapter 5 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] spiritual awakening is. We come and we have this wonderful spiritual awakening. And what happens so frequently when there’s some kind of spiritual awakening, is that the reactive patterns just shut everything right down. This has never happened. Anybody know this experience? And we go, what happened? I was so open and everything like that. […]
Chapter 10 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] mind. And there are four levels of that, which we’ll be discussing a bit more when we get to the chapter on karma. The worlds projected by reactive emotions Ken: So that you know what the terminology means, you have what are called the three world-spheres, or the three realms, which are the desire […]
Chapter 7 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] The cutting obsession with the external world or with materiality—I won’t go into all the details here—the key instruction: Regard everything as a dream. Cutting obsession with reactive emotions. This is something I’ve talked with some of you about in the interviews. The key instruction: “The trouble is I believe my feelings.” Now, what […]
Chapter 5 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] this, and I said, “Tell her to get in touch with me,” but she never did. It’s very, very straightforward. But all the habituated patterns, all the reactive tendencies are still there. When a thought does arise, when you’re not meditating or not resting that way, one tends to take it as a fact. […]
Chapter 7 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] energy available for attention. So you develop more and more powerful attention, so you can see deeper and deeper into the working of things and dismantle the reactive patterns and so forth. But if you’re protecting an area of your life from the practice, it means you’re not including it in your attention. However, although […]
