First Gear: Investigate the Objects of Attention. Balance Concentration and Investigation. My first spiritual opening came in 1982, when I was 23 years old. This first, powerful awakening to the fact that there was a deeper reality than my habitual way of seeing the world completely changed my life; having…
Mahamudra and the Joy of Failure
Kenneth guides a student to the happiness that does not depend on conditions. Embracing failure as the ideal condition for progress. (Guided meditation. Mostly audio only, with some video toward the beginning of the talk.)
How to Get Enlightened
What would I say if I had just five minutes to give comprehensive instructions for awakening? You are unenlightened to the extent that you are embedded in your experiences. You think that your experiences are you. You must dis-embed. Do that by taking each aspect of experience as object (looking…
Practice Tips
Vipassana technique: Q: So, what do you think? Bear down and increase concentration on primary object? Or keep letting it play out?
The Simile of the Hard Drive: Vertical and Horizontal Development
One way to model spiritual development is by comparing it to a computer hard drive. A hard drive is a device for storing information in a digital magnetic format. The first hard drive was introduced by IBM in 1956. It was as big as a washing machine. Since then, hard…