Chapter 1 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] is then used to power attention. In the Mahayana, the four immeasurables are used primarily as a basis for the generation of compassion, using such techniques as taking and sending, and many others. And then compassion is used to transform one’s experience of the world. Zen tradition—and we will be taking a look at the way […]
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[…] is arising in me is just too intense. I am just not able to sit and do nothing. At such times, I turn to an old friend, taking and sending. We’ve known each other for many, many years now, so the practice comes easily. Whatever turmoil I’m experiencing, I take it in, taking it away from […]
Chapter 6 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] tremendous amount of pain for a long period of time. And there were very long stretches where all I could do was basically curl up and do taking and sending. I couldn’t do any other practice. And I would just sit there in pain going, “Breathing in, may I take all the suffering of the world […]
Chapter 5 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] that one can relax from the inside out. You’ve worked through those experiences, and you do that through meditations such as death and impermanence, and karma, and taking and sending, and the development of compassion, the four immeasurables, all of those kinds of things. Then another thing that we do is a lot of energy transformation […]
Chapter 1 of “Power and Presence”
[…] How many of you experienced that when you’ve tried to wield power in your life? Okay. Now we’re going to change the context slightly. Jeff, we’ll be taking you through this in terms of the meditation. You sit in meditation. You rest attention on the breath, say, or you rest in the experience of […]
Chapter 1 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] and very helpful for many people. That’s Thursday. On Friday, we’ll work with another technique which many of you are familiar with, and that’s the practice of taking and sending which is a Mahayana technique based on compassion but works very much in the vein that I am talking about. About creating the condition so that […]
Chapter 8 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] to his room because he could see there was no anger, there was nothing, totally cool. And that didn’t come from mahamudra practice. It all came from taking and sending practice. One of the other students said, “Why didn’t you get up and hit him?!” [Laughter] He had his own hell. He really did. He really […]
Chapter 9 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] would just leave your jaw dropping, well versed in all of the intricacies of very subtle and advanced techniques. And then he came across this technique called taking and sending, which consists of imagining taking in all of the suffering of others and giving your own happiness and joy to them, synchronizing that with the coming […]
Chapter 4 of “Ideology & Wisdom”
[…] engage that question, and engage it deeply with any of the tools that we’ve discussed today, or with any of the other tools that you know—yidam practice, taking and sending, mahamudra, etc., etc., any of these tools—it’s possible you will come to an experience of resting, of being at peace, in which any sense of “I” […]
Chapter 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] is Kalu Rinpoche’s successor, always advises that you do the practice that you find in the middle of The Great Path of Awakening, that is you do taking and sending, and from taking and sending you let your mind rest in sheer clarity. That’s the best practice. Now, there are all kinds of fancy practices that […]
Chapter 8 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] you are [laughter] completely crazy. And this is the true value of a relationship, of a good relationship, it brings you into balance. Student: [Unclear] Ken: Well taking and sending is a method, a very good method, that helps you feel what you are unwilling to feel. Student: Helps you what? Ken: Helps you feel what […]
Chapter 27 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] he keeps knocking him down, and Cool Hand Luke keeps getting up. And eventually the guy gives up fighting, because Luke won’t stay down, he just keeps taking punch after punch after punch. And then after that they become the best of friends. A hatred can’t endure in the face of patience. Perseverance applies […]
Chapter 3 of “Learning Mahamudra”
[…] happens time and time again with us, is that we get grabbed by the content of experience. It’s a bit like trying to know the ocean by taking hold of a wave. Do you follow? Yeah, the wave is the ocean, but if you try to take hold of the wave, you kind of […]
Chapter 2 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] talking about in here. In the middle of the paragraph, the main paragraph on page 39, We have become so accustomed to the world of giving and taking that we assume it is only normal to trade with another, and we lose sight of that life wherein trading has no bearing. How to Cook […]
Chapter 5 of “Four Immeasurables”
[…] they’re feeling. Okay? So what it does is it helps us to understand their humanity, to relate to their humanity. And when we treat people equally, we’re taking a humane approach to things. That was one of the declarations in the Constitution, “All men are created equal.” It’s not saying that they are equal, […]