[…] are, that clarity … there’s still a knowing going on. In the dzogchen tradition, there’s a practice where you imagine that you are in various of the six realms. And you really get into it, you know, being in the hell realm or being in the hungry ghost realm. And then you imagine that you’re […]

[…] which have been tested by time and experience. And that’s what Gampopa is relating here: everything we’ve talked about in terms of impermanence and karma, and the six realms, and loving-kindness, and compassion, etc. All of these things, and what I talked about in Wake Up to Your Life. These are things which all help […]

[…] cultivate loving-kindness and compassion. Now when most people read this, they think, “Okay that’s nice, yeah, I got the point.” Realistically speaking, those two pages, represent minimum six to eight months work on regular practice on just those two thing, so you actually develop loving-kindness and compassion. A number of people here were with […]

[…] consists of the first, second, and third, and fourth meditative stages, and the formless stages. [Gyaltsen, p. 259] You may recall when you were going through the six realms, we talked about the god realms, the form gods and the formless gods. This is where all of this stuff comes in. What they are describing […]

[…] Person, child, parent, job. You know, all of the concepts we use to function. The fifth one is consciousness, of which for our purposes, we’ll just use six or seven. I think there could be eight, there could be nine. But the six are the five associated with each of the senses and the […]

[…] emotional patterns. As Claudia said, that’s usually well set in place by three years. In fact, an awful lot of it is laid down in the first six months. It’s a little frightening. Any of you who are into attachment theory know about that. You spend the rest of your life dealing with those […]

Reactive vs. higher emotions Ken: We’re going to begin what is a six session class on the four immeasurables. As all of you know, we’re going to be meeting every other week, not every week as we have in the past. On the alternate weeks the regular Tuesday group will be meeting here. Anybody […]

[…] look at the next three or four verses for next time. Let’s do the next three verses. That’s verses two, three and four, because verses five and six go together. These don’t have as much traditional material embedded in them in the way that the first three verses did. They’re fairly straightforward but I […]

[…] is provoked, you don’t fall into confusion. Student: Okay. Thank you. Ken: But is this challenging? Highly. Are we quarter past 12 already? I haven’t touched the six perfections yet. Okay. Yes. Anger and compassion Student: Well, when you’re talking about anger and rage and that sort of thing, it reminds me of how […]

[…] would like you to explore is: “What do I trust? What can I trust?” How do I relate? Ken: Then the next stanza: The beings in the six realms are as kind as my parents. Give me energy for loving-kindness and compassion. Prayer to the Perfection of Wisdom I’ve thought about this one quite a […]

[…] rendition, but it was to that effect. Now, I don’t expect you to do all of these. In fact, that would be quite counterproductive. I’ve given you six or seven different techniques, and there are many more. I’ve given you six or seven here. And these are all tried and true traditional methods, and […]

[…] emotion, which is a different practice. Student: Is there a basic set of emotions, like one through ten, one through five? Fear— Ken: Sure, one through six— six realms. Every one of them has, at the basis, fear. But don’t worry about lists like that, just work with your own experience, and that’s fine. Student: […]