No one enjoys confusion, but as long as we cling to our dualistic vision, we will always translate not knowing as ‘confusion’. We don’t like confusion because within the space of confusion definitions become vague and intangible. That makes us feel insecure. Accepting or relaxing in that insecurity is in itself a practice.
p143, Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of Dzogchen, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Shambhala, 2002, ISBN 1-57062-944-7
The trust I'm speaking of here is not trust in someone or something. I am simply talking about trust; your own sense of knowing what you’re doing at a very fundamental level. This is trusting your own intrinsic goodness. This is the trust from which you can act on the basis of not knowing. You have some kind of hunch, some kind of intuition which isn’t simply based on wishful thinking. The trust is based on the experience of practice, and arises out of the very sane ability to be insane when the chips are down.
p207-208, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
No one enjoys confusion, but as long as we cling to our dualistic vision, we will always translate not knowing as ‘confusion’. We don’t like confusion because within the space of confusion definitions become vague and intangible. That makes us feel insecure. Accepting or relaxing in that insecurity is in itself a practice. 