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Fear is a reactive mechanism that operates when our identity is threatened. It works to erode or dissipate attention. We move into one of the six realms and react: destroy the threat or seek revenge (hell being), grasp at safety and security (hungry ghost), focus on survival (animal), pursue pleasure as compensation (human), vie for […]
Chapter 9 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] all of the details of the mantra visualization. I’ll go over that later. Just imagine light radiating from your heart, and growing out to each of the six realms of existence. You can do each one separately. As that light radiates out, you really feel all of the suffering, say of the hell realm, all […]
Chapter 4 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] kick up a fuss about really meaningless stuff, because she wasn’t thinking in the larger picture. You follow? So, if you think of the work on the six realms, you may find this useful. When you feel like killing somebody, which is hell, realm stuff, right? And you can say, “What am I opposing? Do […]
Chapter 6 of “Karma: Awakening From Belief”
[…] thing to do nothing for an afternoon. Actually it’s not hard to do it for three weeks, although I think it would drive some people nuts. One, six, twelve years—as Longchenpa did—totally different ball game. Meditating with patterns Ken: Okay, now I want to go into meditation instructions. We’ve got to do some this […]
Chapter 7 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] outlook, practice, and behavior, you still hold as real your activity in means and wisdom. The Wisdom Experience of Ever-Present Good This refers to things like the six perfections, but also the first two behavioral tantras, which is charya tantra. You’ve moved beyond just ritual in terms of doing everything right to how you […]
Chapter 8 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] go on about this and I said, “You really think government is irrelevant?” He said, “Absolutely.” This guy earns a salary, or earns something in the mid six figures every year. I said “Well, what about the third of your pay check that goes to the government every year, is that irrelevant?” It was […]
Chapter 10 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] resting—and we’re doing a good bit of that during the day—then you actually need less sleep. So, I mean the retreat we usually got between four and six hours a night. That was fine. As the mind grows clearer then dreaming becomes more vivid and you’re just going to remember them more. And there […]
Practice Material
[…] me energy to live a life of no regret.The laws of the way things are work internally.Grant me energy to live without shame.Suffering is present in all six realms.Grant me energy not to take birth in these states.The three jewels are the reliable and definite refuges.Grant me energy to trust them.The beings in the six […]
Chapter 3 of “Chö: Cutting Through Demonic Obsessions”
[…] see things as they are, and all kinds of other things set in. Arrogance creeps in very, very easily. Complacency, feelings of entitlement—in the parlance of the six realms we move into the god realm. And a one-liner summary of the god realm is, “I’m right and that’s just how it is.” And it’s a […]
Chapter 9 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] and what you might do with them. I also want to talk a little bit about where does one go from here. So, first turn to page six. You notice that Franca, page six. Franca: It’s your favorite page. Ken: This is the Aspirations for Mahamudra. We’ve taken a quick look at some parts […]
Chapter 4 of “Living Awake: Who Am I?”
[…] very useful and informative and the tools. But I certainly think that waiting … [unclear]. Student: I hate these summaries at the end, because I can’t process six hours worth of information all that quickly. But I think what I’m thinking about right now is about storytelling, a lot. And this requirement that we […]
Chapter 2 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] will experience hell. If you put your energy into trying to get things, you’ll experience poverty—hungry ghost realm. And so forth, and so forth, through all the six realms. In other words, anytime you put energy into reactive emotions—emotions that are organized around a sense of self—you are creating the circumstances in which you will […]
Chapter 29 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] kind of thing. That’s what I want to try and bring out through this. Now does this address some of the issues that were raised? Okay. Well, six of one, half a dozen of the other, which translation here? So, we’ll probably use both again. We are on page 163 in Guenther and 196 […]
Chapter 16 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] they clarify one’s motivation, what one’s actually doing in practice. Then, “being attached to the pleasures of samsara,” this was addressed through the contemplation of the the six realms of existence and the workings of karma. A lot of people think that karma—and you were referring to this Cara—is the balancing mechanism in the universe. […]
Chapter 3 of “Ideology & Wisdom”
[…] and so forth. They’re the concepts we use for communication, internal as well as external. In this bucket is consciousness. And there are, for our purposes here, six or— depending on how you count them—eight. But we’ll just use eight. There’s a consciousness associated with each sense. Like there’s something that’s conscious of seeing. […]
