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Friday 31 March 2023

The Arts lie behind everything we’ve ever done. - Tracts of the Sun

“The Arts lie behind everything we’ve ever done. We do not necessarily mean Art in the literal sense. We mean that which lies beneath the Arts: the space from which the Arts arise.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Thursday 30 March 2023

Relaxation is necessary if one is to progress with shi-nè. - Tracts of the Sun

“Although the fruit of shi-nè is the profound relaxation of mind, voice, and body, the initial phase cannot be described as relaxation. Relaxation however, is necessary if one is to progress with shi-nè.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Wednesday 29 March 2023

It’s not possible to experience either love or compassion if one’s sense of oneself exists separately from the experience of others. - Tracts of the Sun

“It’s not possible to experience either love or compassion if one’s sense of oneself exists separately from the experience of others.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Tuesday 28 March 2023

Love and compassion as terms appear different in a relative sense – but love and compassion as aspects of the energy of nonduality are divisionless. - Tracts of the Sun

“Love and compassion as terms appear different in a relative sense – but love and compassion as aspects of the energy of nonduality are divisionless.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Monday 27 March 2023

There are as many different approaches to nonduality as there are differences of nature and capacity. - Tracts of the Sun

“The basic illness of duality is the same in everyone and everything everywhere – but personalities and capacities differ. There are, therefore, as many different approaches to nonduality as there are differences of nature and capacity.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Sunday 26 March 2023

It’s not the nature of existence itself that has the quality of suffering; it’s the experience of existence that is characterised as suffering or dukkha. - Tracts of the Sun

“It’s not the nature of existence itself that has the quality of suffering; it’s the experience of existence that is characterised as suffering or dukkha.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Saturday 25 March 2023

The Lama’s job is to cut through the convolutions of interminable psychological and emotional process. - Tracts of the Sun

“The Lama’s job is to cut through the convolutions of interminable psychological and emotional process. Without the Lama one would have to uproot every illusion individually. Without the Lama one would have an extremely long trail to tread.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Friday 24 March 2023

Wishing one hadn’t done something is the thing that helps us not to do it again. - Tracts of the Sun

“Wishing one hadn’t done something is the thing that helps us not to do it again. One can begin by asking “Does a practitioner do this?” One could ask “What would my Lama think of this?” One could conjecture “Could I tell my Lama what I’m about to do?” Put simply—if you have a Lama, or anyone you respect—don’t do anything you’d be ashamed to admit.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Thursday 23 March 2023

Fear can be an aspect of compassion in simply being with ‘what is there’. - Tracts of the Sun

“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 felt. One feels it without acting out; lashing out; or, initiating a primitive bid for self-preservation.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Wednesday 22 March 2023

Shame, guilt, regret, and remorse ... some lives would be vastly improved by a healthy dose of such feelings. - Tracts of the Sun

“Shame, guilt, regret, and remorse are somewhat underrated in contemporary psychotherapeutic culture – but some lives would be vastly improved by a healthy dose of such feelings.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Tuesday 21 March 2023

For those who take to the open fields, woods, rivers, and untracked mountains – linear sequentiality may make little sense. - Tracts of the Sun

“Although the spiritual path can be viewed as systematic, linear, and sequential – this only makes sense according to the requirements of those who use roads. For those who take to the open fields, woods, rivers, and untracked mountains – linear sequentiality may make little sense.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Monday 20 March 2023

Of all the Arts, music is perhaps somewhat more aligned with meditation. - Tracts of the Sun

“Of all the Arts, music is perhaps somewhat more aligned with meditation – because it begins with a rigorous discipline which eventually gives way to spontaneity. This applies to all the Arts – but music is the most difficult to fake.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Sunday 19 March 2023

You’ve just fallen from an incredible height into a bottomless crevasse.... It’s bottomless, so you’re falling into space. - Tracts of the Sun

“We have bad news for you all. You’ve just fallen from an incredible height into a bottomless crevasse. However – that’s also the good news. It’s bottomless, so you’re falling into space. Happy landings.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Saturday 18 March 2023

The cowardly believe they can avoid death. The courageous know they are already dead. - Tracts of the Sun

“The cowardly believe they can avoid death. The courageous know they are already dead – and it’s merely the time of death which is uncertain.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Friday 17 March 2023

Recognition of the presence of rigpa, as the primordial natural ground of being, gives innate cognisance of the three spheres of being as the intrinsic awareness of the union of luminosity and emptiness. This is the vision of Dzogchen. - Tracts of the Sun

“Recognition of the presence of rigpa, as the primordial natural ground of being, gives innate cognisance of the three spheres of being as the intrinsic awareness of the union of luminosity and emptiness. This is the vision of Dzogchen.”
― Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Thursday 16 March 2023

To be authentically *unconventional* is the freedom to be conventional. - Tracts of the Sun

“To be authentically unconventional is the freedom to be conventional in any way which is pleasing to oneself and valuable to others – without any sense of adhering to convention or rejecting convention.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Wednesday 15 March 2023

Because Vajrayana practitioners receive empowerments into all three categories of yidam it is necessary to have a vital and vigorous appreciation of each form - Tracts of the Sun

“Because Vajrayana practitioners receive empowerments into all three categories of yidam it is necessary to have a vital and vigorous appreciation of each form – in whatever colour, gender, body-type, or mode of appearance the yidam displays.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Tuesday 14 March 2023

Finding Mind to be a referenceless ocean of space allows the dualistic knot of panic to untie itself. - Tracts of the Sun

“Finding Mind to be a referenceless ocean of space allows the dualistic knot of panic to untie itself. In experiencing this space, a brilliant discovery is made: being referenceless is not death.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Monday 13 March 2023

Do I contemplate death? No… dying is the very last thing I shall ever do. - Tracts of the Sun

“Do I contemplate death? No… dying is the very last thing I shall ever do.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Sunday 12 March 2023

The ‘new age’ proclivity tends to employ silent sitting as a form of ‘tuning out’. This has nothing in common with shi-nè. - Tracts of the Sun

“The ‘new age’ proclivity tends to employ silent sitting as a form of ‘tuning out’. This is a spiritualised form of introversion – a soporific withdrawal from life. This has nothing in common with shi-nè – so it is quite possible that many ‘new age meditators’ merely sit in a state of blankness.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Saturday 11 March 2023

Everyone and everything everywhere has the intrinsic nature of nondual awareness – the spontaneously arisen universe of pure qualities. - Tracts of the Sun

“Nondual emptiness is undivided from nondual form. Therefore, everyone and everything everywhere has the intrinsic nature of nondual awareness – the spontaneously arisen universe of pure qualities.”
― Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Friday 10 March 2023

The unobstructed luminosity of nonduality – and the entire spectrum of experience—whether deranged or liberated—is as the sun and its rays. - Tracts of the Sun

“The unobstructed luminosity of nonduality – and the entire spectrum of experience—whether deranged or liberated—is as the sun and its rays.”
― Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Thursday 9 March 2023

Rigpa is neither infinite nor temporary. - Tracts of the Sun

“Rigpa is neither infinite nor temporary. It cannot be established though specifics such as experiences or activities. It is the original face of nonduality which is beginninglessly pure, all-pervasive, and all-pervaded.”
― Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Wednesday 8 March 2023

Few people doubt the veracity of those whose assertions are the most voluble and widely quoted. This is why trite spiritual clichés and hackneyed spiritual jargon are so popular. - Tracts of the Sun

“Few people doubt the veracity of those whose assertions are the most voluble and widely quoted. This is why trite spiritual clichés and hackneyed spiritual jargon are so popular.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
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Tuesday 7 March 2023

Only make promises to yourself which you know that you can keep. - Tracts of the Sun

“Only make promises to yourself which you know that you can keep. Otherwise, you’ll never have confidence to make promises.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Monday 6 March 2023

Every time you sit should be the first time. Every moment you live should be the last moment. - Tracts of the Sun

“Every time you sit should be the first time. Every moment you live should be the last moment.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Sunday 5 March 2023

Ignorance—as a Buddhist term—is misunderstood. It is not lack of knowledge – it is not wanting to know. - Tracts of the Sun

Ignorance—as a Buddhist term—is misunderstood. It is not lack of knowledge – but ignor-ance. Ignor-ance is not wanting to know – it is ignoring, which includes: disregarding, overlooking, discounting, declining, rebuffing, rejecting, repulsing, spurning, and disallowing.
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Saturday 4 March 2023

If the quotidian domain is perceived of as mundane, pedestrian, and unexceptional – it ignores the fact that Dzogchen integrates the nondual state with everyday life. - Tracts of the Sun

“If the quotidian domain is perceived of as mundane, pedestrian, and unexceptional – it ignores the fact that Dzogchen integrates the nondual state with everyday life.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
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Friday 3 March 2023

Travelling at the Speed of Mind - now available in Paperback and eBook formats

We are very happy to announce that Ngakma Nor‘dzin‘s fifth book

 

Travelling at the Speed of Mind

 

is now available in both paperback and eBook formats

 

Travelling at the Speed of Mind’ explores the teachings illustrated by the Buddhist Wheel of Cyclic Existence.

Each chapter is a conversation between Ngakma Nor'dzin, her husband Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, and a student.

The cycle of the 12 interdependent links; the qualities of the six realms of rebirth; the result of the recurring patterns of perception and response which are created by attraction, aversion or indifference; are all examined in detail.

The text is illustrated with images taken from a commissioned Wheel of Life thangka.

Ngakma Nor’dzin, an award winning author, presents a lively and insightful discussion, which leaves the reader in no doubt about the immediate need to address confusion, and the ever-present possibility of liberation.

Ngakma Nor'dzin is the author of  Spacious Passion (p,e), Relaxing into Meditation (p,e),  Illusory Advice (p,e), and Battlecry of Freedom (p,e). These books are all available in Paperback (p) and eBook (e) formats.

 

Travelling at the Speed of Mind is available immediately from Aro Books worldwide as a Paperback and as an eBook.


The books will also be available soon via Amazon,Barnes and Noble and other good bookshops worldwide.

 

 

Rigpa cannot be assembled, constructed, or developed. It cannot be interrupted, discontinued, or extinguished. - Tracts of the Sun

“Rigpa cannot be assembled, constructed, or developed. It cannot be interrupted, discontinued, or extinguished. One is never separate from rigpa – nor does dualistic derangement disturb the nondual state.”
― Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
ISBN 978-1-898185-32-1 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide



Thursday 2 March 2023

We cannot express this awareness in words – and there is nothing with which to compare it, in terms of description. - Tracts of the Sun

“We cannot express this awareness in words – and there is nothing with which to compare it, in terms of description. It is not the mundane condition of emotional turmoil and conflicted thoughts – but neither is it the emptiness that is the cessation known as nirvana.”
― Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
ISBN 978-1-898185-32-1 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide



Wednesday 1 March 2023

Vajra commitment means willingness to enter the charismatic-chaos of nondual kindness. - Tracts of the Sun

“Vajra commitment means willingness to enter the charismatic-chaos of nondual kindness. This has no connection with becoming a cult guru; belonging to a cult; or becoming a cult victim.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
ISBN 978-1-898185-32-1 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide



Tuesday 28 February 2023

Nonduality is the is Dzogchen method vis-à-vis nonduality. - Tracts of the Sun

Self and other is the Sutrayana method vis-à-vis understanding nonduality. Subject and object is the Outer Tantric method vis-à-vis nonduality. Existence and non-existence is Inner Tantric method vis-à-vis nonduality. Nonduality is the is Dzogchen method vis-à-vis nonduality.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
ISBN 978-1-898185-32-1 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide



Monday 27 February 2023

Art is an obligation to a sensory entity. This is even true of objects. What is a fountain pen without a writer? - Tracts of the Sun

“Art is an obligation to a sensory entity. This is even true of objects. What is a fountain pen without a writer?”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
ISBN 978-1-898185-32-1 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide



Sunday 26 February 2023

Empowerment consists of wang, lung, and tri - empowerment through the enactment of vision, transmission through the auspices of sound, and, oral exposition of the method. - Tracts of the Sun

“Empowerment consists of wang, lung, and tri: empowerment through the enactment of vision – wang; transmission through the auspices of sound – lung; and, oral exposition of the method – tri.

It’s a natural procedure. If one meets a stranger, one initially appears in the sight of the stranger. One then introduces oneself by name. One then proceeds to provide details concerning one’s location, occupation, and predispositions.”


― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen


Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide
eBook:
ISBN 978-1-898185-32-1 Available from Lulu Publications and other shops worldwide