Ultimately every man and every woman are no different from Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel. - Illusory Advice

 

 

Ultimately however, every man and every woman are no different from Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel. Hence viewing one’s teachers and oneself as Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel can be embraced as an inspiring practice. If you wish to practise this view you need to be realistic about your capacity. If you are viewing us as Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel, but feel that we have made a mistake in a teaching—for example—or seem to have had a lapse in concentration, this may create tension and confusion for you. You may find it difficult to reconcile the ultimate view when faced with the relative reality of our ordinariness. However if you find what we have to say useful and illuminating, this could be inspiring because we are ordinary people.

Tantra plays with ambiguities and apparent contradictions to help the practitioner escape the rigidity of their neurotic patterning. Allow this confusion to dance in your field of perception, so that you do not fix your view.

page 54-55, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6

 

The Seven Line Song of Guru Rinpoche - Dorje Tsig Dün

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk about the Seven Line Song of Guru Rinpoche - Dorje Tsig Dün, during ‘Monday Meditations’ at Aro Ling Cardiff, February 14th 2022.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time); https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85249620913, Passcode: 640389.

Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle. Everyone is welcome.

To see all videos with Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, go to: https://www.youtube.com/c/AroLingCardiff.

Empowerment

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk about Empowerment, during ‘Monday Meditations’ at Aro Ling Cardiff, February 14th 2022.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time); https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85249620913, Passcode: 640389.

Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle. Everyone is welcome.

What is the point of eating another meal? - Spacious Passion

 

I experienced it as something of a relief to discover that a feeling of dissatisfaction is universal. I felt that I could let go of depression and know that the niggling feeling of ‘surely there has to be more to it than this?’ or ‘what is the point of getting washed and dressed again, going to work again, eating another meal?’ did not mean that I was going crazy. I could get washed and dressed knowing that there was no ultimate purpose in these actions. I could go to work knowing that in the grand scale of things it was pointless. I could enjoy eating the meal knowing that it was a transient satisfaction. I could let go of wondering whether I was socially acceptable in the way I dressed and behaved, because social norms are ultimately hollow. I could let go of wondering whether it was alright to really like a particular type of music, because I understood that all opinions are ultimately empty. No-one else’s dress-sense, behaviour, likes and dislikes, and opinions had any more value than mine. I was free to be exactly who I was.

Spacious Passion, Ngakma Nor´dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9653948-4-0, chapter 7 Sparkling Puddles, page 163

 

The yidam - awareness being

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin  introduce the yidam - awareness being, during ‘Monday Meditations’ at Aro Ling Cardiff, February 7th 2022.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time); https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85249620913, Passcode: 640389.

Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle. Everyone is welcome.

To see all videos with Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, go to: https://www.youtube.com/c/AroLingCardiff.

The Three Vehicles: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen