27 September 2022

Battlecry on Horseback

 

Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin and Ngakma Nor’dzin read from ‘Battlecry of Freedom’.

‘Battlecry of Freedom’ by Ngakma Nor’dzin, published by Aro Books worldwide in 2019, explores the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Lojong, Mind Training, as presented by Chekhawa Yeshé Dorje in the 12th century. His Seven Points of Mind Training offer a complete approach to daily practice in 59 slogans.

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15 September 2022

"When the world and life is full of malice and bad circumstances, transform it into the path of awakening" - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Bad circumstances offer particularly juicy objects and experiences for transformation. If an object or experience is labelled bad, there is energy there – there is an acuteness of dissatisfaction that is tangible and can be embraced as practice.

In the unusual circumstance of malice actually being personally directed, practitioners recognise the confusion and delusion behind such behaviour. Harmful actions are not perpetrated by happy people nor create happiness. Bad actions are harmful all round. If harm can be responded to with kindness, this offers the possibility of a change of view. But if harm is responded to with reciprocal harm, things just get worse and worse.

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8, Part II - the slogans, p. 77+78



08 September 2022

Practice should start to filter into ordinary life - Illusory Advice

 

 

Apprentice: I guess that my involvement with you both has short-circuited enough of my neuroses for me to feel relatively comfortable. Now that I can dissolve myself into the void and taste the aliveness of each moment, part of me just relaxes because life has never been this pleasant. Don’t get me wrong, I have plenty of uncomfortable times where I can see my emotions going haywire, but life seems more manageable. What do you think of this rationale?


Teachers: Practice should certainly start to filter into ordinary life so that it becomes enlivened with the sparkle of emerging view. This will be uncomfortable when you notice habit patterns and neuroses, but pleasurable when you relax into view.

page 66-67, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6