Chapter 7 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] it is not, does not make it empty. To say “it is” does not make it solid. It is around beyond mind for experience is just there—no taking hold, no letting go. It is a space free from all complications of thought and object. Because I’m free from the thinking of that distorts experience, […]
Chapter 35 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] cultivation is about, is that it is letting this seeing, this knowing, have a fuller and fuller expression in one’s life. In the beginning, it just is taking place in one’s meditation, but then it begins to manifest in one’s life, and that’s what we will be looking at in the next chapter, because […]
Chapter 2 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] practice? Ken: In chö? Gary: With…well, chö and in a certain step in the primary practice if that’s possible? Ken: Well, let’s take a step back. In taking and sending, or tonglen—one way to view that practice is it’s a way of forming a relationship with elements of our experience from which we’re alienated. Student: Can […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] working with waking up to what is relatively true, whether you’re working with the emphasis on emptiness or on compassion, on everything being like a dream, or taking and sending, the fundamental intention and aim of the practice is to bring you into the experience of now. Exactly what you are experiencing right now. So, in […]
Chapter 3 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] you from which you are alienated, well you have a relationship because it’s part of you. And so you now start exploring that relationship by doing this taking and sending. Taking in the pain of that part, which is probably something that you’ve never touched, or only touched with great unwillingness. And we’ll return to this […]
Chapter 8 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] unpleasant and uncomfortable that it was a very vivid experience of experiencing me here, and my body there. Now, one of the approaches that I’ve taught in taking and sending—and some of you have been working with this a little bit here—is that when there are very strong emotions up—particularly emotions from early childhood, or one […]
Chapter 29 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] from doing so—like some kind of reward—and be punished if they don’t. When we take this approach to morality, to our behavior, how we act, we’re actually taking a very childish approach. This is how a child acts. A more mature and appropriate way is because we see that acting this way is skillful. […]
Chapter 5 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] coming in—I’ve had some people come and talk with me—and they feel that now that they’ve studied mindfulness in a rather academic setting—and studying mindfulness consists of taking a six-week course in it—now they know all about Buddhism. So it’s complete nonsense. And there are a whole bunch of us who’ve decided we won’t […]
Chapter 7 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] your mind in emptiness and compassion. So when you’re sitting doing formal meditation, everything’s like a dream, no one home, rest. And in that space one practices taking and sending, which is the expression of compassion. So compassion and emptiness are joined together. And going about the day. For instance, we have the work activity. Then […]
Chapter 4 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] same with everything. As you develop more capacity, then you can become more aware, not only of the particular activity, but the context in which it is taking place. And so something very different starts to happen. Okay? Michelle: What’s wrong with being totally focused on the activity itself? Ken: Nothing. It’s just a […]
Chapter 2 of “Eightfold Path”
[…] they started managing this person even when there was nothing to manage. And the third person felt the same kind of thing and kept stepping in and taking over the second person’s job. So that those two would get into a fight all the time. This happened in group after group, after group. Well, […]
Chapter 4 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] I’ve just blown my schedule, so I’ve just blown my teaching program. We’ll just have to salvage it as best as can be. Okay, we’re working with taking and sending, working with mind training in daily life situations. This is under Application, page 37 in the booklet. This morning I talked about the whole notion of […]
Chapter 22 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] to in the past. I got a sense of how that might be experience-able. And another story I told myself was: “This practice is a lot like taking and sending. It exists in itself in the practice of willing it. Apart from actually going out and doing it, there is some effect that happens.” That was […]
Chapter 1 of “Living Awake: Surviving Stressful Times”
[…] at things right there, that’s all there is, is conflict, okay? Now, what Sophie and Art have been talking about is not limiting ourselves to that, but taking, let’s say, a larger picture. And then Sophie’s way of looking would be [drawing], okay? There’s a whole story that has brought this about. You follow? […]
Chapter 4 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] the point. So that’s one thing to keep in mind. I know two very, very, present day, distinguished teachers, I’m pretty sure their main practice has been taking and sending, Mahayana mind training. It’s very deep and very powerful. And it has a special place for me because I was ill for much of the time […]
