p205, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Aro Quotation
Monday 18 March 2024
A heart sensation
Monday 11 March 2024
Out of the state of emptiness
p116, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
Monday 4 March 2024
The practice of yidam
p96-97, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
Monday 26 February 2024
A good horse which can be ridden with joy
rLung is the wind principle – which is powerful and direct. rTa means horse – the energy which can be ridden. rLung rTa is a sophisticated energy. which is clean, decent, honest, honourable, and committed – a good horse which can be ridden with joy. The situation resplendent with rising rLung rTa is fresh and exuberant – but only eminently rideable once you have mucked out, groomed thoroughly, and cared for the tack with assiduous patience.
p197, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7
Monday 19 February 2024
Self-sustainingly cheerful
p197, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7
Monday 12 February 2024
Likes and dislikes
p192, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7
Monday 5 February 2024
Assume kindness
p73, Rays of the Sun, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books worldwide, 2010, 978-1-898185-06-2
Monday 29 January 2024
Communicating with dignity
p56, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Monday 22 January 2024
Transparent to ourselves
The experience of meditation practice is essential as a means of realising the view. It is only within the development of the meditational experience that we become transparent to ourselves. When we become transparent to ourselves, we can witness the mechanics of stylised perception – and only then can we free ourselves from restriction.
p49, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Monday 15 January 2024
Dance with the situation
The dance costume of Vajrayana is demanding in terms of personal responsibility, integrity, and honour. One can don the costume and enter the dance – but to sustain the dance throughout one’s life requires a degree of familiarity with the pattern of motivation. Life resembles dance – and a piece of advice which Trungpa Rinpoche gave was to ‘dance with the situation’.
p42, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Monday 8 January 2024
Both imposters
p35, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Monday 1 January 2024
Karma
p60, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7
Monday 25 December 2023
The meaning of ‘accident’
p7, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7
Monday 18 December 2023
Continually breaking through
p86, Rays of the Sun, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books worldwide, 2010, 978-1-898185-06-2
Monday 11 December 2023
The basic ground of being
p102, Rays of the Sun, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books worldwide, 2010, 978-1-898185-06-2
Monday 4 December 2023
A superbly complete portrait
p97-98, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
Monday 27 November 2023
A grand illusion
p143, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
Monday 20 November 2023
Liberation
Liberation is ours to see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and ideate – but all we seem to sense is the shifting surface of that vastness. We see reflections, but are blind to the nature of the mirror. We see waves, but fail to experience the ocean. We see clouds, but cannot conceive of the sky.
p188, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Monday 13 November 2023
Tortuous patterns
Essentially we have always been nondual. Dualistic derangement is merely the fear of that fact – playing itself out in tortuous patterns.
p188, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4
Monday 6 November 2023
Inspiration
This is something crucial to apprehend. Inspiration surrounds us continually: in the laughter of seagulls; in passages of music; in the natural beauty of phenomena; in the beauty of the kindness which can flow out of human beings; in the unexpected, spontaneous, and surprising experience of existence.
p313, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4