Let it flow - Relaxing into Meditation

 

Imagine that you can direct the flow of the out-breath through different parts of the body. and that all tension flows out with the breath. First of all imagine for several breaths that your breath flows into the centre of your chest, and then flows out from there through your arms. Imagine that your breath emerges from your fingertips and from the spaces between your fingers, taking away all tension in your arms... In this relaxation, if a colour occurs to you for the out-breath, then you can imagine the out-breath leaving your body as that colour and taking all tension with it. If a colour does not spontaneously arise however, there is no need to create one unless you wish to. If you do wish to imagine the breath as a colour, you could choose a spacious blue, a soothing green, a warming red, a cleansing white, or an enriching gold.

Relaxing into Meditation, Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-898185-17-8, page 25 - 27

Refuge - establishing confidence in actuality - Monday Meditations

 

 

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.

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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The ability to be curious and discriminating gives rise to humour. - Spacious Passion

 

 

The ability to be curious and discriminating gives rise to humour. When our habits and opinions are noticed or pointed out to us, we are able to laugh at ourselves.

Spacious Passion, Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro books worldwide, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9653948-4-0, chapter 4 Coming up for Air, p97

The Noble Eightfold Path - Monday Meditations

 

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. 

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Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 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

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Transform the three poisons into the three roots of goodness, - Battlecry of Freedom

 

To transform the three poisons into the three roots of goodness, it is necessary to let go of personal identification and classification. 

Whatever is perceived must be recognised as a new unique experience in the present moment. It must be free of self-referentiality – free from the continual habit of referencing phenomena in terms of its capacity to support, threaten, or be irrelevant to personal identity. 

This view allows the possibility for the object to be perceived directly and with clarity, rather than through the filter of past experience and future projection. The distorted view of the objects dissolves into emptiness. 

Direct and clear perception creates an open space in which response can also be open and clear. The poisonous quality of response dissolves into emptiness. 

Letting go of the self-referential view of objects, and the habitual poisonous response, there can be appreciation, humour, and interest in everyone and everything, everywhere. 

The roots of goodness become the basis for the growth of awakening. 

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8, Part II - the slogans, p66  

 

The Four Noble Truths - Monday Meditations

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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Monday Meditations: 7 - 8:30 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

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Vows are held internally, for oneself, and are not yardsticks for judging others. - Illusory Advice

 

Vows are held internally, for oneself, and are not yardsticks for judging others. Evangelism is not part of Buddhism. Buddhism always stresses that one must work on oneself. The external manifestation is kindness, appreciation, and respect towards others.

Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6, p27