Ken McLeod: Practice

“The fundamental effort in Buddhist practice is to develop a sufficient capacity in attention so that you can experience your own non-existence.”

Ken McLeod

Awakening from Belief http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-traditional-modern-1. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org (2005-06-01) (Topic: Practice)

Effort

“Each time you sit down to practice, take a few minutes to feel in your heart why this is important to you.”

Ken McLeod

Practice Tip http://eofcentre.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/just-practice-so-simple-really/. (2012-06-25) (Topic: Practice)

Feeling , Time , Heart

“Some find they can practice effectively by bringing attention to the arising of like, dislike and indifference in their meditation practice and daily life. Others are able to use the power of loving kindness, compassion, equanimity, or devotion to change the way they experience things. And still others develop or naturally have enough capacity in awareness that they experience attraction as delight, aversion as clarity, and indifference as non-thought.”

Ken McLeod

Practice Tip http://onedharmanashville.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/practice-tip-from-ken-mcleod/. (2010-11-09) (Topic: Practice)

Love , Life , Way , Nature

“If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being.”

Ken McLeod

Wake Up To Your Life. (2002) pg. 12. (Topic: Practice)

Life , Understanding , Question , Teachers

“At every stage of practice a price has to be paid for clarity. The price is the loss of an illusion.”

Ken McLeod

Wake Up To Your Life. (2002) pg. 264. (Topic: Awareness)

Loss

“By just taking a breath you're moving into attention a little bit and so you get much less caught up in reactivity. A practical application of this in your life is, never say anything before you've taken one breath. It's a very simple practice--changes the dynamics of conversation with other people completely.”

Ken McLeod

Awakening from Belief http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-traditional-modern-9b. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org (2005-06-09) (Topic: Life)

Life , People , Change

“Greed for results, for something dramatic, undermines practice completely. The effects of meditation are subtle and take time to mature. When we are constantly looking for some kind of sign or attainment from our practice, we are essentially looking outside ourselves.”

Ken McLeod

Six Ways Not to Approach Meditation http://www.unfetteredmind.org/meditation-six-realm/0. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org. (Topic: Practice)

Time

“Attention, attention, the key to practice, so many teachers have said. It’s true. When we come to know, even a little, this truly miraculous and open nature of our being, we begin to appreciate the jewels and riches in these very simple instructions that come down to us through our teachers.”

Ken McLeod

Buddha Nature http://www.unfetteredmind.org/buddha-nature. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org. (Topic: Practice)

Nature , Teachers