Chapter 2 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] experiences now has a basis of calmness and we begin to relax into the feeling. And this is the beginning of a very important point in practice: resting in the experience. By this point in this process we have a pretty full experience of the feeling and everything that’s going on with it. And […]
Chapter 5 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] the whole … or … Ken: Oh, I think you end up doing that, yeah. No escape. [Laughter] It plays itself out. And we find ourselves just resting there. And as Franca pointed out, all of the energy that was being dissipated in the struggle becomes available for attention. So as I say, one […]
Chapter 7 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] it as a fact. There’s a huge difference there. So when thoughts arise, if we experience it as thought it doesn’t matter. It just goes and we’re resting in awareness. If we experience it as a fact, then that’s where we need that remembering to come in. And this is where taking and sending […]
Chapter 1 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] don’t have to do anything else. You don’t have to push it away, or try not to be distracted. You just go … And you return to resting in seeing no thing. Okay? Student: At that moment can you observe [unclear]? Ken: Yes. You can observe that you’re thinking and just watch the thoughts […]
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[…] we find that a whole realm of experience begins to open up to us: thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, sounds, images, memories. Our conditioned tendency is to regard some of these as good and some as bad. Through power, we have established a place for our attention to rest. Now we make an effort in ecstasy…
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Many problems in meditation practice come from confusion about what we think should happen, what we want to happen, and what actually happens. One way to clear up this confusion is to be clear about the purpose, method, effects and results of meditation practice.
Chapter 10 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] that cycle. This is really really fast what happens here. Student: So right at the top of this elliptical thing is an open space. It that you resting in the fear? What is that? Ken: I’m going to come to that in a minute, okay? I just wanted to get how it goes around […]
Chapter 14 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] a little bit, just to the degree that you can actually stay with it. That’s one aspect of the experience of that particular situation. So just breathe, resting in that experience, just the physical reaction if you wish, the physical sensations that arise in your body associated with that experience. It’s not necessary to […]
Chapter 4 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] On the front, he would be 124 when he died. Ken: I’ll have to check that. But part of the problem there is you have 60-year cycles in the Tibetan calendar, so it can be difficult to tell over a factor of 60. I’ll have to check that one. But those are the dates […]
Chapter 3 of “Heart Sutra Workshop”
[…] here in The Heart Sutra, Because for bodhisattvas, there is no attainment, they rest, trusting the perfection of wisdom. Now this morning I talked a bit about resting. So let’s do that again. Let’s just rest. But I want you to do it with a difference. You’re never, ever, ever going to get anywhere. […]
Chapter 1 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] fruitfully, 10 or 15 minutes to allow the attention to rest. 15 to 20 minutes working with the actual meditation. And then about 10, 15 minutes just resting again at the end. That kind of sandwich approach is very effective. In the beginning you’re going to work with yourself. It’s: May I be free […]
Chapter 2 of “Monsters under the Bed”
[…] the sense that it’s fundamental. Because any kind of internal work requires a certain ability or capacity for clear, stable attention. In some respects you can regard resting meditation like scales in music: You never actually play scales in a concert, but the more you practice scales, the better your musicianship becomes. And it’s […]
Chapter 4 of “The Unfettered Mind”
[…] different quality to arise. And while in the beginning it doesn’t feel as stable as that initial just holding onto it, one finds that over time, that resting is sustainable. And a very different kind of knowing presence arises, something which we may not have even considered in our imagination before, may not even […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] all of a sudden I became extraordinarily quiet. I’d never experienced that before by myself and I still can’t do it by myself. And even when I’m resting fairly well, I drift off into oblivion or what you refer to as dullness. Ken: Mm-hmm. Helen: But, I just have real doubts about being able […]
Chapter 1 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] It means to rest in the actual experience. So tomorrow morning, when we get up to meditate, I want you to take the first session, and practice resting in experience. Now for many of you this is not new material, but for some of you this is. So I am going to go over […]