Slogan 5 - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-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.

This video is Slogan 5.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom Monday evenings.
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Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, finishing with a reading from ‘Battlecry of Freedom’. Everyone is welcome.

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By remaining open to people you always have the opportunity to approach every meeting afresh - Illusory Advice

You cannot give up on someone because you find them difficult to be with, and you cannot condemn them to the confinement of a pigeon-hole you have fabricated for them. By remaining open to people you always have the opportunity to approach every meeting afresh and to be continually surprised and delighted. You have now discovered this for yourself experientially and will always have this understanding to draw on when you meet other people you find difficult to get along with. The more you practise, the easier it will become. The more you practise shi-nè, the more space there is to allow such discoveries to arise, and to remember helpful experiences.

page 81, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6 

 

Slogan 4 - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-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.

This video is Slogan 4.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom Monday evenings.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85249620913
Zoom Meeting ID: 85249620913
Passcode: 640389
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, finishing with a reading from ‘Battlecry of Freedom’. Everyone is welcome.

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

Slogan 3 - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-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.

This video is Slogan 3.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom Monday evenings.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85249620913
Zoom Meeting ID: 85249620913
Passcode: 640389
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, finishing with a reading 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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Illusory Identity II - Nothing remains exactly the same from one moment to the next. - Battlecry of Freedom

 

If not existing in the body, perhaps it may be felt that identity is therefore intangible, dwelling in energy or mind. Analysis, however, also cannot reveal anything that exists permanently and unchanging in the emotions or thoughts. Nothing remains exactly the same from one moment to the next. Through analysis the mind is discovered to be fundamentally empty.

The delusion that identity is a something, that exists independently, continually, and without changing, creates the need to protect and support it.

The illusion of a self-existent identity is isolating and selfish – I am in pain, which is much more important than your pain. The illusion of a self-existent identity prevents enjoyment and appreciation – you are happy, but I cannot appreciate it, because it is not my happiness.

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8, Part II - the slogans, p. 81+82

 

Slogan 2 - Battlecry of Freedom

 

 Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-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.

This video is Slogan 1.

Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom Monday evenings.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85249620913
Zoom Meeting ID: 85249620913
Passcode: 640389
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, finishing with a reading from ‘Battlecry of Freedom’. Everyone is welcome.

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

We practise living the view to encourage the entire context of our lives to become our practice. - Illusory Advice

 

Living the view is perhaps one of the most fundamental practices in the Aro gTér Tradition. We practise living the view to encourage the entire context of our lives to become our practice. Living the view is the interface between our formal practice and our everyday lives. In one sense, living the view is the most advanced Buddhist practice because it means taking the recognition of the nonduality of emptiness and form—the realised state—into every moment of our existence. At a more accessible level however, we practise living the view by trying to actively recognise the infinite permutations of emptiness and form in every facet of our lives, so that everyday experience starts to reflect the nonduality of emptiness and form.

page 77, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6