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Podcasts & Audio Files
Periodically, Ken conducts courses on specific topics, such as mahamudra or the four immeasurables. Or he may give a course on a particular text, such as The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva. These courses are recorded and posted on the UM website for everyone, e.g., people who missed a class and want to catch up or people who are unable to attend the course in person and want to follow it.
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Below are links to .mp3 files of these podcasts grouped by class. Select a grouping from the list below to see the list of files for that class. When you click on a file title, a new window will open to play the sound file. You can put the window in the background and continue to browse while you listen.
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- Ganges Mahamudra (Class, 5 files) Jan, Feb 2010, Los Angeles, CA
- Sutra Session (Q & A, 9 files) ongoing, varied
- Meditations (Class, 1 file) ongoing, various
- Eightfold Path (Class, 2 files) May, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
- Ideology and Wisdom (Workshop, 4 files) May 2009, Los Angeles, CA
- Surviving Stressful Times (Workshop, 4 files) January, 2009, Los Angeles, CA
- Heart Sutra workshop (Talk, 4 files) September 2008, Los Angeles
- Anything’s Possible (Talk, 2 files) 2008, Port Townsend, WA
- Then and Now (Class, 37 files) 2007 - 2008, Los Angeles
- Who Am I? (Class, 4 files) 2008, Los Angeles, CA
- Making Things Happen (workshop, 4 files) 02/03/08, Los Angeles
- Money and Value (workshop, 4 files) 12/02/07, Los Angeles, CA
- Four Immeasurables (Class, 6 files) February - May, 2007, Los Angeles
- Mahamudra (Class, 6 files) November - December, 2006, Los Angeles CA
- Relationship and Conflict (tele-teaching, 4 files) October, 2006, Los Angeles
- Practice Issues (Talk, 3 files)
- What Do I Do Now? (Class, 4 files) August 2006, Los Angeles CA
- 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva (Class, 20 files) April-June 2006, Los Angeles CA
- Other Talks
- Learning from the Lives of Lineage Holders (Talks, 3 files) November-December 2004, Los Angeles CA
IAW01: Ideology and Wisdom (workshop)
Direct Experience
Sufi teaching story: “The Story of Fire”; examples of ways traditions move away from direct experience and straightforward application in life; what do we seek in practice?; guided meditation: primary practice; expanding to include the full field of experience, and resting; discussion of uses of such an experience; explanation of reasons that traditional texts were restricted.
Duration 01:50:58
IAW02: Ideology and Wisdom (workshop)
What am I searching for?
Meditation on “What am I searching for?”; resting in the full experience of this question; meditation: “I practice in order to be at peace with the world.” ; samsara as the chaotic process of moving among different ways of experiencing different worlds; “I” as a narrative that is constructed in order to give a semblance of rational consistency to this chaotic process.
Duration 01:08:19
IAW03: Ideology and Wisdom (workshop)
Worship
Fascination with tools we develop in practice; skandha map; human tendency to worship; honor and appreciation toward those who show us something valuable; discussion of Pure Lands; falling into worship, moving into projection and away from living awake.
Duration 01:10:57
IAW04: Ideology and Wisdom (workshop)
Compassion
Wisdom; meditation: observing what changes when we rest and relax with a problematic experience; experiencing what is actually arising and being at peace at the same time; spiritual opening as memory, idea, belief; beliefs vs ideology; compassion; emptiness as the means to compassion; compassion and ideology.
Duration 01:16:37