Aro Quotation

With awareness and kindness there is no limit to the possibilities available in terms of being human. p114,  Spectrum of Ecstasy , Ngakpa Ch...

If you push any skill far enough‚ it takes you into the sphere of Vajrayana. It has to – because although Vajrayana is a religion‚ it’s also...

So there are choices to be made when you go beyond social convention. To a certain extent—where it only affects you personally—any consequen...

The Lama’s function is to mirror our intrinsic enlightenment. The Lama shows us the nature of what we actually are. If we have opened suffic...

Sectarianism and bigotry betoken the death of any spiritual culture; even if‚ ironically‚these activities are motivated by the wish to prese...

Being able to laugh at oneself is crucial. One has to see one’s contradictions and find them amusing. Once the contradictions are amusing‚ t...

For people who are not in the nondual state however – it might be more helpful to be at a retreat centre, by the ocean, or in a forest. As l...

Kindness gives confidence to others. Kindness encourages self-respect and authentic dignity. Tantra is the hot blood of kindness. In essence...

Craft is authentic practice when it is successful. Success necessitates the development of integrity, honesty, scrupulousness, accuracy, aut...

Why would you want to persuade anyone to do anything apart from what was going to be beneficial? It would be deranged. With the realised pro...

History was composed of what happened and what was sensed – what was ordinary and what was extraordinary. The important factor to bear in mi...

Anybody who wants power has a problem‚ immediately. Power is not something to want for itself. Unless it has a function and it’s operative i...

The idiocy of buying into prevalent conditioned perception and relating to arbitrary ideas as if they were truth – is that we can make no se...

You have to have a sense of suspicion or scepticism concerning what seems attractive – and this applies to clothing, music, Art, social conv...

Power is not necessarily concerned with having great capacities – but knowing the limits of one’s capacities and being willing to go to the ...

Engage with the sense fields. Become authentically involved with the senses. Being alive is being surrounded by colour, sound, fragrance, an...

The essential method is to be free in the nature of chaos . We always look for pattern in order to understand anything – but that kind of u...

Vajrayana was no longer something to be learnt word-by-word—fact-by-fact—category-by-category. It was a living coherent organism which was e...

My time in Tso Pema had turned into the most stupendous discovery. Rinpoche had taught me how to see the principle and function of the teach...

It struck me then—as it did so many times—that Vajrayana was ART.  Künzang Dorje Rinpoche had just brought out logic through poetry – the po...