Holding the five powers protects the mind - Battlecry of Freedom

The five powers - confidence, energetic application, alert presence, meditative attention, and intelligent discernment - apply to all areas of life, including sleeping and dreaming.

When falling asleep, the psycho-physical elements dissolve into emptiness and the dream body is born. The dreamer has dream personality and dream life circumstances. If the five powers are engaged, openness and kindness can be practised. If they are not applied, dream activity may be deluded and move toward patterning and self-protection – just as in waking life.

Responsibility remains for any activity that is engaged while dreaming, and the consequences of patterning remain the same as in waking activity. Murderous intent in a dream carried through into activity in the dream will carry the same consequence of patterning as with waking intent and activity.

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8 Part II - the slogans, p. 108

Stability - Battlecry of Freedom

Meditative stability enables practitioners to take responsibility for themselves at all times and in all situations. This enables them to also take on responsibility for others. Being able to join whatever is encountered in life with meditative awareness is to be fully engaged with awakening. Practice has reached a point of stability and life as practice is fully embraced. There is certainty about the methods of Mind Training, and confidence in an ability to apply them accurately and effectively.

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8 Part II - the slogans, p. 100

Slogan 33 - Battlecry of Freedom

Slogan 33 of ‘Battlecry of Freedom’ is now available to view on Aro Ling Cardiff’s YouTube channel: https://youtube/KiB48be8gCc

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Silent sitting and yogic song, finishing with a slogan from ‘Battlecry of Freedom’.
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Slogan 32 - Battlecry of Freedom

Slogan 32 of ‘Battlecry of Freedom’ is now available to view on Aro Ling Cardiff’s YouTube channel: https://youtube/KiB48be8gCc

For live commentary on these slogans of Buddhist Mind Training, join us for Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom, Monday evenings.
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Silent sitting and yogic song, finishing with a slogan from ‘Battlecry of Freedom’.
Everyone is welcome.

To see all videos with Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, go to:
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Immediately join whatever you meet with meditation - Battlecry of Freedom

This slogan expresses an heroic stance. It is the view of never taking a vacation from being responsible and working to benefit others. It is the view that whatever delusions and afflicted emotions arise they will be joined with practice. The opportunity to be present and kind is embraced in every circumstance. Meditation is not used in this slogan in the sense of a formal meditation session, sitting on a cushion. It is the application of meditation as presence of awareness in the moment. It is remembering Mind Training in every moment. It is paying attention to what is actually going on and embracing that as the path of practice.

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8 Part II - the slogans, p. 99

The perfect parent - Illusory Advice

Apprentice: I am becoming more and more excited by impending parenthood – a whole new adventure. I am aware however, that it is severely challenging to my ‘I just want to be a yogi in a cave’ head-trip and also makes my ‘walking around the world’ dreams look even more distant.

Teachers: You may not have to let go of all of your dreams, but you will need to consider whether being a parent can accommodate them without harm. The path of the Mahasiddhas is to live life exactly as it is and to enable that to be the path of realisation. Being a parent offers many opportunities for practice. You could become the ‘perfect parent’ and discover realisation through that as a method.

page 121, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6