Chapter 2 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] world. Okay? So to review, they are, the full ripening—that’s the traditional term—of the projection of the reactive emotion that’s driving the action. That’s one of the six realms: hungry ghost realm, hell realm, etc., etc., and we’ll go into more of those later. Then there’s the predisposition which has developed in you, that’s the […]
Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Money and Value”
[…] which you didn’t cover explicitly, is that when you regard money as the problem or money as the issue, you are inevitably operating in one of the six realms. Frequently, it will be the hungry ghost realm. But it isn’t necessarily. It may very well be the god realm. It can be any of the […]
Practice Material
[…] the time,May I and others find refuge in the Three Jewels and the Three Roots.May love and compassion be born from the depths of my heartFor all six kinds of beings, my parents, infinite as the sky. Practice In an uninhabited place in the mountains with all the favorable conditionsMay I practice single-mindedly and […]
Chapter 7 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] number of emotions like depression, things like that. When that emotion is up, you’re necessarily experiencing the world through the filter of the emotion. This is the six realms, so you experience everything is against you. And just saying, “The trouble is I believe my feelings,” just saying that wakes something up. Okay, this is […]
Chapter 6 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] in a storm, and whirl around like the wind at the base of the world. To all of you I offer my body. I offer you the six pieces of flesh from my body, may you attain the six perfections. I offer the nine orifices into my body, may you attain the nine vehicles. […]
Chapter 3 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] emotion are the emotions that are organized around and defend a sense of self. These are ones you’re all familiar with—the typical list in Tibetan with the six realms—so anger, greed or neediness. I think neediness actually is a better translation for greed. Most people don’t relate to being greedy, but a lot of people […]
Chapter 2 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] something like, well, it’s subsumed in the preta realm, or it’s subsumed in the god realm ’cause those are ways that it’s subsumed when you take the six realms to five. But I don’t know why they didn’t put it here. So, when you think of this list this way, what happens in you? The […]
Chapter 4 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] way you can experience the world is through these very, very narrow windows, where everything does not look very nice. And those narrow windows are called the six realms: hungry ghost realm, hell realm, animal realm, human realm, titan realm, god realm. You know, they’re very, very narrow. Yes? The four forces: regret, reliance, remedy, […]
Chapter 9 of “Pointing Out Instructions”
[…] just liked it so much. There’s all of this extraordinarily flowery language and metaphorical language etc., etc. It’s describing how we actually experience things. It’s what the six realms are describing. So as you’ve heard many many times, your own mind is buddha. Know it that way right now. How do you do that? You […]
Chapter 28 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] just love, not so good. He only lists these three, but you could say if your giving is based on any of the reactive emotions of the six realms, then it just is a reinforcement of those realms. So, those are impure motivations and then— Joe: I have a question about one of the impure […]
Practice Material
[…] to the pure Realm of Bliss.6 Guru Avalokitesvara, think of me.Look upon me from the sheer clarity of the vastness of enjoyment.Calm completely the suffering of the six realmsAnd churn the three realms of samsara to its depths. Guru Padmakara,7 think of meLook upon me from your palace, Lotus Light, in Chamara.8In these dark times […]
Chapter 7 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] desired world one will not be affected by its faults.” Well, in the prayer that we do at the beginning we say, “Suffering is present in all six realms, may I not be born in those states.” Now in mythic vocabulary you regard the six states—the six kinds of beings—as actual places where one will […]
Chapter 13 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] told him to practice, he never missed a day. He just, “I’ll do that” and that was it. So I introduced him at some point to the six realms—hell realm, hungry ghost realm, animal realm, human, titan, and god. He looked these over. He said, “Mmm.” And he knew he had a lot of anger […]
Chapter 5 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] and disdain. These are the monsters that haunt you. Yes, Robert? Robert: What happened to the sixth emotion? Ken: Oh. They have different lists. There are the six realms and the six reactive emotions and then other times people prefer five so they just drop one—it’s usually greed or pride or something. To these, I […]
Chapter 2 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] we know what is right. And then how do we know what to do? Well, this is a possible answer. Here again, are the teachings on the six realms. The six realms describe how the world appears to us when we are in the grip of reactive emotions. In this case, those projections lead us […]
