[…] of manipulation. In union tantra you use thoughts to manipulate symbols of what is profound and clear, But to little effect, you followers of union philosophy! By resting in a state that doesn’t rely on effort or process, You can use the result, pure being, as the path. Instead, you use complex practices to […]

[…] is that through our work today, you can get some appreciation of what the whole thing is really about, which now can help inform the practice of resting in attention, resting with the breath. You see in Buddhism we have a wonderful array of approaches and practices. And these methods are very, very powerful. Every effective […]

[…] practice. Well, then you do some work. When your mind is less acute and does not truly rest. And this is very important. If there is no resting in mind there is no possibility of doing what he’s talking about. And we have hundreds, thousands of people in the West who have zero ability […]

[…] easy to develop attention just sitting. But when it comes to developing really deep attention, the primary way that really deep attention is developed is actually through resting. And the more deeply you rest, the more of your internal material you run into. And learning how to navigate, that’s quite important. And when it […]

[…] thinking about the present. So you’re not really there, you’re just thinking about it. Kate: Okay. So being in the present is— Ken: It is actually experiencing, resting in it. And of course the deeper you rest in it, the more you see what it is. And the more you see what it is, […]

Stepping out of the six realms Ken: Okay. Though it may not seem like it, we’re actually following a progression in this retreat. The first step was to establish a basis of attention. The second is to use that base of attention to move into an awareness of the material that keeps us from […]

[…] things like that, but they’re no longer in the experience. So these are three ways that this crops up, just that very little push, or in our resting meditation, or in the looking meditation. So this is what we’re going to explore. And we also explore how this applies in our lives. But right […]

[…] order to develop a sufficiently stable attention and to clear out the big emotional blocks and things like that, so that we have some possibility of actually resting in that looking. And as we’re able to rest in the looking, we find that we are able to look in the resting. This is not […]

Increasing capacity of attention Ken: Work at resting in the field and doing that for a while. You’ll develop a capacity in attention in which you can start opening to what’s inside. And even at the stage of the field, you can still work, to a certain extent, with a sense of balance and […]

[…] have heard of what are called the four jhanas, which is jhana in Pali, is J-H-A-N-A, but in Sanskrit is D-H-Y-A-N-A. These are four levels of the resting mind. It’s just the resting mind. I think it is in the first one that there is some examination and investigation, and joy and equanimity, I […]

[…] to arise. And sometimes something arises. We can’t hold onto that. We go back and now we do the same thing again. And that path consists of resting in the mess, and developing skill and capacity so that we can actually relax in the mess. And as we relax in the mess the tension […]

[…] knew that the sun went around the Earth. So this distinction between you knowing, and belief, we need to explore that a little bit. Let’s just start resting in attention. I’m going to talk you through a certain process here, which you may find helpful. [Gong] So begin by resting in the experience of breathing. And […]

[…] rather—expand to the field, the whole field of all sensory experiences: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. All of it. And you’ll probably experience another shift in energy. And resting in that experience, now include all of the stories, feelings, valuations, beliefs, and perceptual frameworks in you. All of your internal material—all that you can be […]

[…] components over three days so we’ll just work that out as we go forward. For tomorrow morning for your meditation practice I just want you to practice resting in attention so probably for most of you that’s going to mean just resting in the experience of breathing. So just very simple meditation, not trying to do […]

[…] lot of change takes place. On the other hand, there are many, many places where people practice meditation, and they get very, very good at meditating, and resting in attention. They can rest in attention quite deeply, but they never bring that attention to the operation of the patterns. So as soon as they get up […]