This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 11th October 2021.
Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom every Monday evening. Zoom meeting ID: 85249620913; Passcode: 640389.
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of The Four Immeasurables: loving kindness, comapssion, empathetic joy and equanimity.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 4th October 2021.
Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom every Monday evening. Zoom meeting ID: 85249620913; Passcode: 640389.
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 27th September 2021.
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Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Ten Paramitas’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 20th September 2021.
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Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, September 13th 2021.
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Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Four Denials: monism, dualism, eternalism, nihilism.'
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 6th September 2021.
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Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle. Everyone is welcome.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, August 30th 2021.
Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm (UK time) on Zoom every Monday evening. Zoom meeting ID: 85249620913; Passcode: 640389.
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘12 interdependent links of origination’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 23rd August 2021. Clarification of the five skandhas mentioned in the talk: form, feeling, perception, mental formation, consciousness.
Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 pm on Zoom (UK time) every Monday. Zoom meeting ID: 85249620913; Passcode: 640389.
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
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Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin and Ngakma Nor'dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Eight Worldly Dharmas'.
This talk was part of the 'Monday Meditations' session at Aro Ling Cardiff on 16th August 2021.
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This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 2nd August 2021.
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Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin and Ngakma Nor’dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Realms of Being’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, July 26th 2021
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Three Root Misconceptions: attraction, aversion, and indifference’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 12th July 2021.
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Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin and Ngakma Nor’dzin talk on the subject of ‘Kindness’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 5th July 2021.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘Refuge - establishing confidence in actuality’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 28th June 2021.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Noble Eightfold Path’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 21st June 2021.Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 on Zoom (UK time) every Monday.
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Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin talk on the subject of ‘The Four Noble Truths’.
This talk was part of the ‘Monday Meditations’ session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 14th June 2021.
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Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin and Ngakpa Nor'dzin talk about karma – explaining that it does not signify predetermination, but rather habitual perception and response. To awaken is to unlearn and unravel karmic patterning.
‘Monday Meditations’ is a weekly session at Aro Ling Cardiff, 7– 8:30 (UK time) on Mondays, and consists of yogic song, meditation and a short Buddhist teaching.
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June 7th – and then ongoing every Monday.
7 - 8:30 pm on Zoom (UK time).
Zoom meeting ID: 85249620913; Passcode: 640389.
Do join us for silent sitting and yogic song, with a short teaching in the middle.
The meetings are hosted by Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, an ordained teaching couple of the Aro gTér Lineage. They dedicate their time to practice, teaching, the Aro gTér Lineage, and working with their students.
Ngakma Nor’dzin is an award winning author. Her books are: Spacious Passion, Relaxing into Meditation, Battlecry of Freedom, and Illusory Advice (co-authored with Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin).
In this video from February 2010, Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin and Ngakma Nor’dzin discuss the reality and benefit of silent sitting practice.
Transcript
Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin: What we would say for the sake of somebody who’s considering beginning meditation practice, is that silent setting is all about boredom and pain.
Ngakma Nor’dzin: – it’s not that bad! You make it sound worse than it is!
Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin: I think it’s worth giving people a non-governmental health warning that those images of people looking serene – these are inspirational indications of perhaps the resultant condition and it doesn’t always feel that way when you practise.
Sitting practice is coming face to face with the reality of our own condition and the irony of the fact that we think our minds are our own, and they should do what we want. We sit, and we may attempt to have no thought – and at that point we can discover that thought actually seems to have the nature of an addiction.The process of that practice leads us to understand that we’re actually quite keen on thinking and we’re not too keen to let go – and that in itself is interesting.
So we realise that there is something else happening – some deep-seated habit or need that is saying: ‘Think. Think about anything. Think about shopping. Think about going to Tesco in your pyjamas. Think about almost anything rather than not think’.
So rather than leave a practitioner with this difficulty, we can then engage in various methods that are there to enable us to come to an experiential understanding that the possibility is there that we can sit and not be addicted to thought. This leads to the possibility of spaciousness that will be there spontaneously in the rest of our lives. But silent sitting practice in a formal sense is fundamental to giving us the opportunity for that to happen.
The habitual state of being we discover in silent sitting is actually what’s there all the time underlying our actions – that we develop certain habit patterns and they’re always there. We find them in their raw sense when we attempt to sit, and through that process discover what is behind that.
We discover that we can sit comfortably without thought, and then that spaciousness appears within our lives and allows us to see our emotions almost from a different dimension, and certainly a dimension that includes a sense of humour. As soon as humour can arise then the situation explodes. We no longer take it seriously. We no longer entirely take ourselves seriously, and we can let go of things that previously we had been so dreadfully attached to.
