Illusory Advice: The most useful practice

"The most useful practice to help cope with emotion when it arises is … yes you guessed … silent sitting. Recognising the movement of mind is all that can help: something arises, abides, and dissolves. You get used to the emptiness of dissolution and this makes your relationship with change more comfortable. Gradually this enables you to be more present in the moment."

p82, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor'dzin & Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2016, 978-1-898185-37-6

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Illusory Advice: Difficult people

"You cannot give up on someone because you find them difficult to be with, and you cannot condemn them to the confinement of a pigeon-hole you have fabricated for them. By remaining open to people you always have the opportunity to approach every meeting afresh and to be continually surprised and delighted."

p81, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor'dzin & Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2016, 978-1-898185-37-6

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Illusory Advice: Energy of emotion

"It is always a shame when an event does not go how you would have liked it to go, but such experiences bring you face to face with the habit of living through expectation and projection rather than in the present moment. The connection between distracted and liberated emotion is simply the energy of as it is. In a dualistic, distorted relationship with energy, form is forced as an experience, ignoring emptiness. Energy does not change when you let go of manipulation, but your relationship with it changes – you are able to experience energy from the perspective of nonduality; you are able to experience the energy directly. "

p80, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor'dzin & Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2016, 978-1-898185-37-6

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Illusory Advice: Solutions

"When you are working within a lineage of practice you allow the lineage to be bigger than you. Through embracing the greater view of the lineage and path of practice, you can let go of referentiality and free yourself from the limitations of your own solutions. By remaining open to the view of the teacher you can avoid defaulting to finding your own solutions preferable to the suggestions indicated by the teacher, lineage, and practice. The scope of your own perspective can be more comfortable, but sometimes rather limited. Practitioners avoid going for the comfort of limited view and embrace the potentially unsettling challenge of the vastly more expansive view of the teacher, lineage, and practice."

p70, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor'dzin & Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2016, 978-1-898185-37-6

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Illusory Advice: Visiting

"It is always valuable to spend time with one’s teachers just doing ordinary things together. This encourages opportunities for informal teaching and transmission to arise. This is an essential aspect of the gö kar chang lo’i dé."

p48, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor'dzin & Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2016, 978-1-898185-37-6

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