Observe the play

‘Your neuroses’ are not separate from the ‘you who wants to destroy your neuroses’.  As long as you cling to that bifurcation—non-dual realisation will elude you.  You have to accept the entire situation or it can never be transformed—let alone self-liberated.  This situation is all we have—and there is actually no other way to proceed.  We have to celebrate the situation as it presents itself—and simply, wordlessly, observe the play.

p170, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7

The freedom to experience

When allowing the emotional realm to be as it is, the freedom to experience the texture of life arises directly – and it becomes possible to sidestep the sour orthodoxy of preordained likes, dislikes, and habitual concepts.  Allowing perceptual life to be as it is, everything is self-liberated as it is – resulting in freedom from restrictive social rôles, conventional preoccupations, conservative anxieties, and mundane personal expectations.

p12, Shock Amazement: The four naljors and four ting-ngé’dzin from the Dzogchen series of the nature of Mind.   Khandro Déchen and Ngakpa Chögyam,  Aro Books Worldwide, 2018, ISBN 978-1-898185-45-1