Chapter 5 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] your own experience. In essence the offering of torma is an offering of attention to, on the one hand, those aspects of experience which pull us into reactive patterns, and on the other hand, those aspects of our experience and activity which are an expression of being awake. Okay? Don’t waste any time Ken: Someone […]
Chapter 22 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] Ken: So let’s move on to intention. Joe, we can come back to you. Joe: What you said was really true. For me, was sort of like reactive pattern’s greatest hits. [Laughter] Ken: Say a bit more please. Joe: Just seeing what I wanted, they were all the result of patterns running. Ken: I see. […]
Chapter 13 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] Trungpa’s description of practice: “One insult after another.” Now as we become clearer and are able to relate to situations more clearly and hence more appropriately, less reactively, more responsibly, all of that stuff, people who are around us go, “How did he do that? That was very skillful.” Or “She has extraordinary patience.” […]
Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Money and Value”
[…] job just like that.” [Ken snaps fingers] “Oh, then how are they messing with your livelihood?” “Oh,” she said. [Laughter] Okay. What I’m talking about are these reactive parts in us that really believe that survival depends on money. In this case it drove her to act inappropriately in the workplace. We’ve all got […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] resting mind, just as you are experiencing now, it is stable and clear. Is everybody with me on that? What can happen is the stability is lost. Reactive patterns create disturbances. That’s where you start thinking; that’s the loss of stability. And then you just go off. The other thing that can happen is you […]
Chapter 1 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] four immeasurables, but particularly things like meditation on suffering, meditation on impermanence, and so forth in which you’re using these practices to dismantle the operation of various reactive patterns. One of the simplest ways to think about or to understand the reactive patterns is from the Theravadan tradition, the three marks of existence which are, […]
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[…] Jr. Freedom is not a state; it is a process. It is something you are, not something you have. In freedom, there is a continual releasing of reactive material as it arises in each moment of experience. The reactive process doesn’t stop by itself. As Gampopa wrote eight hundred years ago in The Jewel […]
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[…] this confused state, our habitual patterns have a great deal of power, for there is no strength in our attention or mindfulness and we tend to be reactive and go with whatever impulse arises. This is exactly the kind of confused, reactive state that advertising and store displays are intended to cultivate. As an […]
Chapter 2 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] do you have a question then? Student: Well, I just have a comment on homeland. When I think about it, it reminds me of comfort zone, or reactive patterns, sort of getting out of your comfort zone. Ken: Well, let me talk about homeland a little bit. One of Milarepa’s more famous sayings is, “If […]
Chapter 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] do nothing, that’s doing something, it’s really tricky just to cease. Ken: That’s right. Steven: It would be like in a state of inertness, just inert, non- reactive. Ken: Then you’re doing something, aren’t you? If you’re … “I’m going to do nothing now,” now you’re doing something. Yes. It’s not really an inert […]
Chapter 5 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] like it or not, it’s irrelevant. It’s to be awake in it. If we’re not awake in it, then whatever is arising is going to be triggering reactive patterns, and they’re going to be determining what we’re doing. Our own awareness, intelligence and so forth will not be determining what we’re doing. And that’s the […]
Chapter 4 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] to do with passion and creativity, where you’re willing just to pour your energy in. So I hope this gives you some kind of feeling for it. Reactive process based on avoiding fear and isolation Ken: Now, the problematic side of that is that pouring that energy into something can consume you, and can […]
Chapter 4 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] prayer, an act there. Confessing evil actions. Confession is an unfortunate term. The Tibetan really means just to open the whole thing up. You cannot undo a reactive pattern without acknowledging that it’s operating in you. So when we do something that’s unwholesome or harmful to another, the very first step in undoing the karmic […]
Chapter 20 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] didn’t want to go to, by these friends of ours. He was being recognized as “the kindest person of the year,” and that’s one half of the pattern, so you can guess the other half, so anyway we told them … Ken: He’s a rather ruthless businessman? Chuck: [Laughs] He’s gone through more secretaries […]
Chapter 6 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] out. What is going on in inside the person is being pointed out, so the person can work with it in some way, free themselves from those reactive patterns, or what have you. It’s that quality of looking into. Now, when you’re on the receiving end of this, your experience is of being cut. Being […]