Aro Quotation

Recently appearing gTérma are effulgent with the warm breath of the khandros – and their authenticity is palpable. Within each lineage ther...

Everywhere where there are dualised beings is going to look like samsara – if one is dualised. One cannot escape samsara by going to a retre...

Target practice—with bow, rifle, or hand gun—is a valuable way of taking awareness into the physical dimension. One sees the proof of one’s ...

Somehow it was true when I was with Düd’jom Rinpoche. There seemed to be a version of ‘me’ who seemed to rest in the natural state when with...

Rinpoche explained that a mark of authentic teaching—stemming from authentic realisation—gave rise to joy. If what was taught was merely int...

Actually shi-nè and lhatong—stillness and change—are the two major considerations whatever the activity in which you engage. p184,  Warp and...

Shi-nè is the moment of silence – the moment of stillness in which there is no distraction. Lhatong is the moment in which the practitioner ...

“It’s understood in The Tibetan tradition” added Khandro Déchen “that you can just end up not achieving anything, if there’s nothing that y...

The experience of spaciousness can arise through entertaining uncertainty – and by failing to feel threatened.   p263,  Tracts of the Sun  :...

It is far more interesting to have absolutely uncontrollable lust for everyone everywhere to get everything they want. When lust is contra...

One has to have the courage and confidence to let anything happen.  Then one’s actions are always spontaneous and playful. This is because t...

We cannot be responsible for many things – but we are all responsible for how we feel about what happens. To embrace emotions as the path, o...

As long as people have patellar reflex responses to anything it means they haven’t stabilised shi-nè, let alone lhatong, nyi’mèd or lhundrüp...

The realised state can be experienced through the entire phenomenal world – but it’s easier  through the natural world. It’s more direct.   ...

At some point in any sequence of ‘forms’ – ‘emptiness’ will happen. If this was not the case – everything would be predictable – everything ...

The more one realised the patterns of duality the funnier the situation became in terms of one’s experience. There was also sadness when obs...

Pottering can accomplish a great deal – but one has to surrender all sense of achievement and live in the moment.   p182,  Tracts of the Sun...

Tidying is an aspect of pottering – but true pottering is more sporadic. It is a haphazard mode which often facilitates discoveries and unex...

Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen are a continuum in terms of involvement. One practises what is appropriate in terms of how one is in the moment....

It’s the huge myth of renunciation being the answer.  We need to grow out of that – or Vajrayana is out of the question. p416,  Warp and We...