Chapter 2 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] plexus, where a white sphere, same size, a white sphere of light forms. This is the element water. Rest your attention there, including the earth element, but resting principally with the water element. And think of rain, water, rivers, oceans, flow, cohesiveness, fluidity, anything that flows. Internally, the element water manifests as blood and […]
Chapter 3 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] we look we see no thing. And yet, experience is vivid and present. And those two things are not contradictory. They’re both there. And when we are resting like that inevitably various thoughts arise. Thoughts along the lines of, “Everything’s empty. There is no good or bad. It’s all space.” And many, many other […]
Chapter 5 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] or awareness side, and one which is going to be on the compassion or appearance side. Student: Why? Ken: Well, what are two practices? Very simply, say, resting in attention, or mahamudra, or dzogchen, on the one hand, and taking and sending on the other, which is a compassion practice. That would be one example of […]
Chapter 2 of “Power and Presence”
[…] habit of when I’m trying to experience something else, I don’t breathe. I’m a breath holder. Jeff: That’s quite common. Do you ever notice that when you’re resting attention on anything in meditation practice, that you tend to bind up a little bit? There’s hard attention and there’s soft attention. You might experiment with […]
Chapter 35 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] places. Joe: So it might be more fruitful for me particularly to think of them as they are explained earlier in this book, or, someplace else, as resting places, rather than traps from which you cannot– Ken: Oh, yes, and I think it’s much better to view them as places where your curiosity stops. […]
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[…] final challenge of habituated patterns is to question direct experience. How do we know? How can we trust this knowing, which is totally beyond the ordinary conditioned experience of life? Like Buddha Shakyamuni, we turn to no external reference and live in the knowing. We rest in presence, in the very mystery of being itself.
Chapter 4 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] different ways of building capacity. The traditional and probably most widely practiced method for building capacity is known as shamatha, which means, if you translate it literally, resting in peace, though it doesn’t have the connotations that that phrase has for us in Western society. There are a lot of misconceptions about shamatha practice, […]
Chapter 4 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] to have at times. And when I open to my senses more fully—I’ll come back to some of the phrases that you’ve used—I have an experience of resting that is, excuse the acronym, but that is both full and empty at the same time. Ken: Okay. Lisa: That is reset. Ken: Yeah, you like […]
Chapter 2 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] according to theories, where you’re getting down to the actual structure of space and time itself. I think well beyond that point, you may find yourself just resting in experience. So 10 to minus 35 millimeters, it’s very small. But the nice thing about when we do this kind of exercise, we don’t have […]
Chapter 6 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] attention being eaten by the thought, it becomes available. Ken: Could I interpret that as a kind of waking up? What happens when you recognize that you’re resting? There we are resting. What happens? Do any of you know this experience? Caroline, what happens? Caroline: I stop resting. Ken: Do you? And then do […]
Chapter 3 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] again. And in his pointing out instructions, his summary of his teachings, he says this over and over again. So when mind’s at rest, when you’re experiencing resting in your practice, you just recognize that. And when there’s thoughts and stuff going on, you just recognize it. Now, the possibility of recognizing it is […]
Chapter 6 of “Monsters under the Bed”
[…] attention, so that the level of energy in attention is actually higher than what’s arising in experience. It’s one of the reasons we work so hard at resting meditation. It’s because we’re building a capacity in attention so that when thoughts and sensations arise, we do not have to do anything with them. So, […]
Chapter 8 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] to sort them out, you don’t try to analyze, you don’t try to deduce, you don’t try to understand them. You just experience them. Now, you continue resting with the breath. You have the main feeling, or whatever small part of it, and you’re holding that tenderly. And then you have all of these […]
Chapter 6 of “Finding the Way”
[…] your knees bent and your feet standing on the floor just comfortably. If that is an extremely uncomfortable position, you can have both of your legs long, resting. Your intention is to choose one of your legs and extend it along the floor. Try that out once or twice so you know what the […]
Chapter 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] death corresponds to the dissolution of the fixation with the elements that arises in meditation practice. And all of this comes about in the end, simply by resting in experience and letting things unfold. To do so requires a level of attention that operates at a sufficiently high level of energy, that it is […]
