Chapter 2 of “Living Awake: Surviving Stressful Times”
[…] Okay, what was this like? Questions, challenges or insights. Anybody? Mary? Mary: I experienced a certain amount of chaos, going from deconstructing my beliefs of the country taking care of me, or whatever parental feelings I have on, “I am safe.” But I’m also a cancer survivor, so I experienced that nine years ago, […]
Chapter 6 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] tell the child “You think you will live forever. You cannot live forever. All things are impermanent, you, like me, like everyone, will die one day.” Do taking and sending with all of the reactions that registers in the child’s face. The child’s form grows brighter with light, then tell the child, “You want to have […]
Chapter 8 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] UCLA, probably a number of others at various universities around the country. Lots of papers. Lots of studies going on. You know what the next candidate is? Taking and sending. Student: Maybe they’ll patent it and [unclear]. [Laughter] Ken: Well, fortunately I think there’s enough of a history that the patent office will reject that. Well, […]
Chapter 6 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] So now you have a chance to do nothing, and you don’t want to. Susan: [Pause] Okay. [Laughter] Ken: It’s not romantic, is it? Susan: Am I taking up too much time? Can I just— Ken: No, I think this is extremely useful from my point of view, because I doubt if there’s anybody […]
Chapter 5 of “Monsters under the Bed”
[…] titan realm. The god realm Claudia: Take one more breath. Move into the god realm. You don’t have an alarm clock. The cook’s already in the kitchen, taking care. The nanny’s dealing with the children. You don’t have to worry about that. You just wake up naturally in the morning. You run the company. […]
Chapter 1 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] And that’s why I’m going to pull stuff from all of the other different translations because they all have their merits. A very different approach and I’m taking a particular approach to this translation. Not translating it for scholars, or academics, but very much translating it for practitioners. So, with that as a beginning. […]
Chapter 3 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] a piece from their childhood where something very uncomfortable, very painful happened like some form of abuse or something like that. I will instruct people to do taking and sending with that child. What they’re doing taking and sending with is something that is locked inside them. And by doing that, they’re actually opening that up […]
Chapter 6 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] years ago I translated a book which is published under the title The Great Path of Awakening, and it’s a description of a technique of meditation called taking and sending. And it’s compassion meditation and in the commentary it’s described as the one path traveled by all buddhas. It’s extremely easy to infer from this kind […]
Chapter 6 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] said, you’re invoking, setting in motion, those very, very powerful energies, to deal with, originally, the contingencies in the world. Part of the genius of Vajrayana was taking these very primitive methods and transforming them to serve spiritual practice. Okay, here’s where it gets a bit rocky. How many of you have any of […]
Chapter 30 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] to do these days but, yeah, that was the kind of person. He would just get really, really angry. And, I had him meditating for years on taking and sending, and things like that. And little by little, we’d chip away, and I remember once he was in his office, I came to see him and […]
Chapter 2 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] do at the beginning of each of our meetings here, we say we take refuge in buddha, dharma and sangha. For many people that is interpreted as taking refuge in the historical Buddha, the teachings of the dharma, and the sangha of monks and nuns, which has existed for 2,500 years, and that would […]
Chapter 4 of “Monsters under the Bed”
[…] back out and go get more beer. When I went camping and my cigarettes got wet, that wasn’t the end of the camping trip. So I wasn’t taking care of my addictions all the time. So that was kind of the first thing besides not being drunk and not having so much conflict—and all […]
Chapter 5 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] your response is: Dedicate to him your body, your wealth, and all the good you’ve ever done or will do. Now, this is an extreme example of taking and sending—of this exchange that we’ve been talking about—and that is what he’s doing here. We need to distinguish between our “practical life” and our life of spiritual […]
Chapter 4 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] in them than we are able to cover right now. And that becomes one’s practice in the same way that meditating on death and impermanence or doing taking and sending, and so forth. Some of you have taken up the practice of Chenrezi in the retreat we did last year. That’s something you can take up […]
Chapter 21 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] is shot off …. you know, your world falls apart; you’re just going to use those circumstances to wake up. This is what—those of you who studied taking and sending, and the mind training teachings—this is what it talks about, over and over again. Whatever adversity arises, you make use of it to wake up. Lynea. […]