Chapter 3 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] … I think the last time it existed really was probably about the time of Buddha. Yes Richard? Robert, sorry. It was an R, I was close. Resting in breathing Robert: [Unclear] Resting with the experiencer sometimes just seems like resting in the breathing. I don’t know if that’s clear, but if it isn’t— […]
Chapter 3 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] gaining ideas. But as our practice matures, we see that it’s not so much about getting something from the practice, but that the more that we are in the experience of what is, the less suffering arises for ourself and other people. Our tendency is to postpone experiencing unpleasant things. We would prefer to […]
Chapter 6 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] encouraging you to rest in attention, not to push in it. Because if you just do the pushing side, it’s problematic. Equally, if you just do the resting side, it’s problematic. You end up sleeping a lot. So this business of learning how to do something requires feedback and refinement, things like that. If […]
Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Who Am I?”
[…] Okay? Some of you may find this a little disorienting or a little uncomfortable. That’s par for the course. But the emphasis here is looking, and then resting in the looking. So let’s just take a few minutes. Meditation on self Ken: The first question is, what in me never changes? What in me […]
Chapter 7 of “Death: Friend or Foe?”
[…] but do nothing while you walk. Yes, Kerry? Better luck second time, eh? Kerry: I asked this question while Janet was reacting. Do we alternate that with resting on the breath, as with the other instructions, or— Ken: If you wish. That works for me. Explore. It’s very interesting. Where’d all the anxiety come […]
Chapter 2 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] clear, returning them to what they actually are, which is just energy. And we ourselves are the movement of energy. And that’s why we end up just resting in our experience. That’s where the practice ends up. So there’s no sense of separation. Whereas in terms of what Ryan was saying and what you […]
Chapter 12 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] With wisdom freed from the three domains. Anything else? George? George: In verse 35, what does it mean to crush or destroy reactive emotions when we are resting in our awareness of their arising? Ken: Yes, here we are: ‘bur ‘joms byed pa (pron. bur jom jé pa), which is as they arise you […]
Chapter 9 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] not particularly comfortable, but that’s how you are all the time. Student: Yeah. Ken: Yes. Student: I wrestled with my experience so it didn’t matter that I was resting in attention. [Unclear] super tense. Ken: Sixteen eyes in all directions, right? Yeah. Student: Yeah. Ken: Yeah, good. Okay, we’re going to stop here with the questions, okay. […]
Chapter 1 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] than it usually is in the Tibetan and even Zen traditions for that matter. But I found it’s extremely important because you simply cannot rest unless you’re resting in the body. When you rest in the body, you’ll naturally feel how the body wants to sit. The body actually will want to sit straight, […]
Chapter 4 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] collection of stories. They’re all teaching stories. Some of them are pretty straightforward and some of them are more than a little enigmatic. This one is more in the straightforward category, I think, but you’ll decide about that. It’s one of about three or four stories in here, which has to do with the […]
Chapter 9 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] away at the practice, and then one day you sit down, and it’s not there! And you kind of poke around; it’s not there! Then you’re just resting very peacefully, and your body doesn’t hurt anymore, there aren’t any of those stories, and there’s no emotional upset. This is a very important experience. Not […]
Chapter 15 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
Q&A Ken: This is mainly a question and answer period. So where should we start? Rebecca? What’s in a name? Rebecca: I was curious about your Tibetan name, Lodrö Gyatso. Ken: Yes. Rebecca: Can you tell us what that means? Ken: Lodrö Gyatso (Tib. blo gros rgya mtsho) means Ocean of Intelligence. Students: Ooohhh! […]
Chapter 4 of “Living Awake: Money and Value”
[…] Our last section. We’re probably going to go a bit past four. Is that any problem for anybody? Student: No. Ken: Okay. I got a little lost in timing in there but things like that happen. Okay. Quick review. Problem. What generates the problem? We took a somewhat chaotic look at a possible solution. […]
Chapter 3 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] do is to give some very, very general principles for five or ten minutes and then take up your questions and have a dialogue about this. And in posting this on my website, I said, “Relationships, what makes them work?” So I’m going to talk very generally about relationships as a whole, the different […]
Chapter 4 of “Ideology & Wisdom”
[…] any of the other tools that you know—yidam practice, taking and sending, mahamudra, etc., etc., any of these tools—it’s possible you will come to an experience of resting, of being at peace, in which any sense of “I” as a separate entity in the way that we were discussing, vanishes. If you’re able to […]
