Chapter 4 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] or the space. So, this is a way of moving directly through a visualization process [snaps finger] into presence. No definition. Dissolving or transforming progressively all the realms of confusion—just as we’ve been doing in taking and sending. One manifests out of that as an expression—the perfection of wisdom is an expression of emptiness—as a dakini …
Chapter 12 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] blocks, or whatever, that prevent that from being present in you. Virtue Ken: Then, the third force is the force of virtuous seeds. This is basically about taking care of your internal environment. We noted earlier that when you do something virtuous, you feel clearer and lighter. When you observe ethical behavior, there is […]
Chapter 1 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] arises. You have a use for it. Whatever arises, you have a use for. Student: [Unclear] Ken: Perhaps it’s very quiet.We did the practice of taking and sending last summer. Taking and sending in the Commitments and Guidelines includes several instructions which are really about operating at the level of will. Whichever of two […]
Chapter 3 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] experience of “What am I doing?” And particularly in practice. When I’m trusting a certain practice such as mahamudra, dzogchen or something like that, or compassion or taking and sending, what am I actually doing? And the emotional quality is that I’m allowing myself to open emotionally. But when I really looked, it wasn’t that then […]
Chapter 3 of “Releasing Emotional Reactions”
[…] practice is exactly the same. There are these areas within us which we are alienated from. And we’ll be talking more about that in the context of taking and sending tomorrow. And what you’re doing here is just saying, “Okay. I’ve ignored you for the last ten, twenty, thirty, forty years, whatever. Now I will hold […]
Chapter 7 of “There Is No Enemy”
[…] of standing up: a review Ken: Saturday, October the 24th, There Is No Enemy. Afternoon session. There are a good number of loose ends to tidy up, and I think the first one will be from this morning. We were going through the four stages, but I was going through the four steps of […]
Chapter 8 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
Guided direct awareness practice Ken: This morning, not a lot to add, I wanted to do one thing this morning and one thing this afternoon. Last night, I talked briefly about the three kinds of meditation practices: the practice of presence, or direct awareness, purification practices and energy transformation practices. Up to this point, […]
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All beings who have taken a wrong way, the powerful, the arrogant, Those who could not be taught by buddhas throughout all space and time, May I teach each and every one of them And lead them in an instant to buddhahood.
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[…] final challenge of habituated patterns is to question direct experience. How do we know? How can we trust this knowing, which is totally beyond the ordinary conditioned experience of life? Like Buddha Shakyamuni, we turn to no external reference and live in the knowing. We rest in presence, in the very mystery of being itself.
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May we acquire all the abilities of the ground, path, and fruition. And clear away all disruptions in outlook, practice, and behavior. In the infinite expanse of the wonderful mind of Ever-present Good, May we take hold of eternal being in the youthful vase body.
Chapter 9 of “Being Mahamudra”
[…] five people who spoke English and about five or six people who spoke French. And so, I was translating into English, and then my French counterpart was taking the English and translating that into French. His English was better than mine, but his Tibetan wasn’t quite as good. And Dilgo Khyentse chose to teach […]
Chapter 17 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] we’ve explored here is that mind is how we experience things. So another way of looking at this is, how is your own experience of the world and of yourself undermined, negated or trivialized—any number of things—so that you don’t know your own experience or are unable to act on your own experience. Both […]
Chapter 6 of “Five Elements Five Dakinis”
[…] to understand the value of zero. You may recall that the number system in Grecian times consisted of the letters of the alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta and so forth. So alpha plus alpha equals beta; beta plus beta equals delta. If you ever try to do arithmetic with this system, it’s kind of a mess. […]
Chapter 2 of “Finding the Way”
The four noble truths Ken: Today is entering the village. And as I was saying last night, this retreat is primarily about how to explore your own experience. The aim in Buddhism—just to review this very briefly—the first formulation Buddha gave is known as the four noble truths. First noble truth is there is […]
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[…] being (bodhisattva) is one who is determined to wake up. So we have to separate from being concerned solely with our own welfare. The primary practice is taking and sending. It embodies the four immeasurables (loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity). “If you are attached to a position, you can’t see things as they are. When […]
