Hall of mirrors

No matter to what degree the dualistic hall of mirrors distorts the emotions; a connection with the intrinsic unmanifested nondual condition remains.

p156, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions.  Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books Worldwide, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4

Without acting out

One has to address one’s fear.  Fear can be an aspect of compassion in simply being with ‘what is there’.  One accepts the entire texture of what is is felt.  One feels it without acting out; lashing out; or, initiating a primitive bid for self-preservation.  

p116, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions.  Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books Worldwide, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4

Existential definition of being

Being is both: thought and absence of thought; phenomena and emptiness; pattern and chaos.  When practising shi-nè however, it becomes evident that this existential definition is not comfortable to a dualistic mindset.

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Another dimension

Empowerment is a context in which Vajrayana speaks in twilight language.  Twilight language is the bridge between the known and the unknown.  It is poetic in the way that Vajrayanaa ritual is artistic.  Every sense field is a conduit of realised communication.

p87, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions.  Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4