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Showing posts with label immediacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immediacy. Show all posts

Monday, 9 December 2019

It will always be there grinning at you!

   Once you accept that there’s no way you can interpret Tantra according to intellectual criteria; you’re left with simple non-conceptuality.  And that; is absolute directness and blunt immediacy.  You’re simply left suspended; left high and dry.  There is nowhere to run; nowhere to hide.  You’re left sitting with that in the moment.  There is nothing to do with it apart from experiencing it.  You can accept it or attempt to reject it; but it will always be there grinning at you.

p14, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4 

Monday, 5 February 2018

Bedazzlement

Space exists but we tend to miss it.  We miss space because we are always looking for it.  A vast dimension exists, but we never seem to see it.  We tend to be too concerned with the microscopes and telescopes of conventional credibility, but we never gaze at immediacy with our naked eyes.  If we simply looked we could find the specialness of reality.
All we need to do is gaze tenderly at the living bedazzlement of existence.  We could just simply gaze at whatever arises and enjoy the immense vision.  We would then realise that celebration is taking place in the vastness of inner and outer space.

p198, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7