Slogan 25 - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Slogan 25 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.

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Life is practice - Illusory Advice

 

The style of practice in the gö kar chang lo is that life is practice. Practitioners find time to engage in formal sitting practice because it feeds and expands their capacity to engage in everyday-life as practice.

page 102, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6

 

Tantrikas are all always responsible for the results of their actions even if those results were unintentional. - Illusory Advice

From the perspective of karma, a complete karma requires intention, the act, and satisfaction about the completion of the act. Hence if there is awareness (intention) and somebody gets hurt through the action, whether or not it is a complete karma will depend on whether the instigator is satisfied that someone got hurt. If they are not and regret that there was harm, then this is not a complete karma. Tantrikas are all always responsible for the results of their actions even if those results were unintentional. If someone has been hurt through your actions—whether or not there was intention, self-control or awareness—you remain responsible for the outcome and should try to help the person who has been hurt.

page 101, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6

 

Slogan 24 - 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 24.

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.

If you fantasise committing an unskillful action, such as violence towards someone, imagine enjoying the action and feel satisfied that it has been enjoyable, then you have patterned your perception - Illusory Advice

 

If you fantasise committing an unskillful action, such as violence towards someone, imagine enjoying the action and feel satisfied that it has been enjoyable, then you have patterned your perception to some extent though not as strongly as if you had actually committed the act. It may be that you are not aware of deciding to have the fantasy because it is too fast – phhhtt! You are just in there. Try to engage with the energy of the fantasy, rather than the conceptual content of the fantasy – stare at it in the same way that you would stare at an emotion. Then interesting things may start to happen, and the compulsion of fantasy creation will begin to lose its power. As with dreams, the content is ultimately irrelevant. It is the energy of the experience, and what we do with that energy that is pertinent.

page 97, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6

 

As a practitioner you can learn to dwell in the emptiness and form of each new moment - Illusory Advice

 

Each aspect of experience has its qualities to be discovered and appreciated. As a practitioner you can learn to dwell in the emptiness and form of each new moment of every day, so that nothing is ever experienced as mundane or mediocre. Through yearning for what might be, fretting about what isn’t, and worrying about what is, there is the risk of missing the vibrant, sparkling possibility of each moment.

page 95, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6

 

Slogan 23 - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Slogan 23 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.
Zoom Meeting ID: 85249620913
Passcode: 640389
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:
https://www.youtube.com/c/AroLingCardiff

Monday Meditations

 

Many apologies for putting up a cancellation screen last night. Monday Meditations was not cancelled! - and thank you to those who stayed till starting time anyway. We will be continuing as usual Mondays 7 to 8:30 on Zoom.

 

Details here: http://aro-ling-cardiff.blogspot.com/p/meditation.html

 

Practice details for Monday Meditations here: http://aro-ling-cardiff.blogspot.com/p/practices-monday-meditations.html