“Why can’t you play like a normal boy?!”

Silent sitting seemed to be the heart of it all – and so I sat every day. The idea of sitting was intriguing because I'd sat silently since childhood – and had been harangued about it by my father “Why can’t you play like a normal boy?!” I was always able to sit and stare – without going off into dreams. I’d just observe the colours and sounds of my environment and allow them to drift in and out of my observation. 

It was the idea of silence that eventually led me to Dzogchen as being the heart of everything.  

p26, Wisdom Eccentrics : Rumours of realisation as told by Künzang Dorje Rinpoche with additional tales of the unexpected.  Ngakpa Chögyam,  Aro Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9653948-6-4