We need to observe the way in which we do actually seek emptiness when form becomes too oppressive. We need to observe the way in which we solidify emptiness and crush our own freedom by attempting to make form come into being too quickly.
Maybe, it would be interesting to allow things to remain undefined just a little bit longer than we usually do. Maybe we could attempt to settle into the sense of uncertainty and feel the texture of that. Some understanding needs to evolve, in which we come to regard experiences of both emptiness and form as beads on the thread of energy that comprises the nature of what we are.
p34, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
We actively feel the environment – seeking out anything which will justify our perception as being accurate. This is karma – and this is the law we’re trying to break through meditation.
Karma is entirely how we perceive the world – moment by moment. So the ‘law of karma’ is not just law – it’s the entire legal system. Our perception is the legislation and our responses enforce it. We’re our own judge, jury, and prosecution.
p52, Rays of the Sun, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books worldwide, 2010, ISBN 978-1-898185-06-2
Approaching Tantra is what you’re doing now! Tantra is not separate from the stream of reality that you are living all the time. Especially when you allow yourself to enter into confusion – when you regard that as workable ground. And when, the workable ground is one in which the ‘working’ itself is indeterminate. That is very much the ground of Tantra. This is what you could call living the view.
p118, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
No-one else is responsible for how we perceive the world. We accept and reject society’s influences and the influences of our parents and friends on our own terms. We fabricate our own perception, and unless we discontinue the process and de-structure our perception, we’ll merely continue to be repressed by our personal totalitarian regime. The responses we make to our environment will remain the same and we will attract the kind of circumstances which match our perception.
p51, Rays of the Sun, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books worldwide, 2010, ISBN 978-1-898185-06-2
We need to observe the way in which we do actually seek emptiness when form becomes too oppressive. We need to observe the way in which we solidify emptiness and crush our own freedom by attempting to make form come into being too quickly. 