If silent sitting is separate from the flow of life — it is merely a hobby. - Tracts of the Sun

“If silent sitting—the practice of the Four Naljors—is separate from the flow of life — it is merely a hobby.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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When performing Vajra dance dualistic contrivances and excuses are cut away by the enacting of precise movements. - Tracts of the Sun

“When performing gar’cham  – Vajra dance, one moves outside of the tired self-protective rationale into a frame of mind in which dualistic contrivances and excuses are cut away by the enacting of precise movements.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Language ... is mainly used for the governance of societal herd-conformity. - Tracts of the Sun

“Language ought to communicate meaning – but it is mainly used for the governance of societal herd-conformity.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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The ‘Art that is life’ requires enthusiastic investment - Tracts of the Sun

“The *Art that is life* requires enthusiastic investment – if one is to witness authentic sentience in the mirror of creative effulgence.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Empowerment is to be gutted like a fish, refurbished with a diamond heart – and set free to swim in the clear stream of lineage. - Tracts of the Sun

“Empowerment is to be gutted like a fish, refurbished with a diamond heart – and set free to swim in the clear stream of lineage.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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The knowledge that ’khorwa is a hoax, is provided by all lineages and the traditions of realisation. - Tracts of the Sun

“’khorwa (samsara) – the self-defeating cyclic nature of duality – never will function – no matter what we do. The knowledge that ’khorwa is a hoax, is provided by all lineages and the traditions of realisation. They all offer the means of living in the immediacy of the sparkling moment.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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If you actually hear the teachings – they are shocking. Shockingly wonderful and shockingly normal. - Tracts of the Sun

“If you actually hear the teachings – they are shocking. Shockingly wonderful and shockingly normal.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Practice is a pain in the anatman – the inauthentic anatomy of body, speech, and mind. - Tracts of the Sun

“Practice is a pain in the anatman – the inauthentic anatomy of body, speech, and mind.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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The good part of following fashion is that it is always possible to laugh at what you once used to wear. - Tracts of the Sun

“The good part of following fashion is that it is always possible to laugh at what you once used to wear. If you look back and find your appearance risible however – but cannot laugh at yourself, then there is nothing to be gained from fashion.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Only through direct experience can we begin to perceive our world differently. - Tracts of the Sun

“Only through direct experience can we begin to perceive our world differently.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Birth and death are the creative play of existence. - Tracts of the Sun

“Birth and death are the creative play of existence. They move within the womb of Space. Waking and falling asleep are the mirror image of birth and death.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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The lower the yana, the higher the throne. - Tracts of the Sun

“The lower the yana – Buddhist vehicle – the higher the throne.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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In terms of Drala, everything has history and connections. One becomes aware that there’s an inherent communication taking place. - Tracts of the Sun

“In terms of Drala, everything has history and connections. The longer the history the more connections there are. These connections create a fantastically rich texture – a consummately emanating texture. One can tell it when one touches objects, when one sees objects, when one hears sounds. One becomes aware that there’s an inherent communication taking place.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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It’s a simple choice for any Vajrayanist: you can either become star craving mad or stark raving mad. - Tracts of the Sun

“It’s a simple choice for any Vajrayanist: you can either become star craving mad or stark raving mad.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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If you rely on the absence of form then you have a far more reliable situation. - Tracts of the Sun

“If you rely on the absence of form: insubstantiality, impermanence, lack of discrete functioning, discontinuity, and lack of definition (or continuous redefinition) then you have a far more reliable situation.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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The *clothing* of vows is only complex if we become estranged from compassionate culture - Tracts of the Sun

“The clothing of vows is only complex if we become estranged from compassionate culture – through taking refuge in self-oriented dementia.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Dharma needs to be continually re-expressed. - Tracts of the Sun

“Because words change in meaning, nuance, implication, inference, insinuation, and connotation – Dharma needs to be continually re-expressed.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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The Lama’s anger is a flash in time and space. - Tracts of the Sun

“The Lama’s anger is a flash in time and space. Then it vaporises into vacuity. There is no escalation. There is no residue. It is merely the moment.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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If one authentically appreciates something within the realm of fashion – one is not a follower of fashion. - Tracts of the Sun

“Not following fashion does not have to mean the rejection of everything that is fashionable. It means being free to make choices based on individual perception. If one authentically appreciates something within the realm of fashion – one is not a follower of fashion. If one rejects everything that is fashionable – one simply follows the fashion of rejecting fashion.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Become authentically involved with the senses. - Tracts of the Sun

“Engage with the energy of the sense fields. Become authentically involved with the senses. Being alive is being surrounded by colour, sound, fragrance, and texture.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Study is necessary. The brain is like any muscle or organ– if you don’t use it, you lose it. - Tracts of the Sun

“Study is necessary. The brain is like any muscle or organ– if you don’t use it, you lose it. Vajrayana is not a Hollywood setting for ‘The Night of the Living Brain-Dead’.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Time and space simultaneously exploded and imploded. - Tracts of the Sun

“In 1971, Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje looked at me—or through me—and said “O yah – I see one White Khandro. You are seeing since young child.” Time and space simultaneously exploded and imploded. These are the words that made sense of nineteen years of bewilderment.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche

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Those who require overt reference points to feel secure, experience the most initial discomfort with shi-nè - Tracts of the Sun

“Those who require overt reference points to feel secure, experience the most initial discomfort with shi-nè – but once that discomfort dissolves, they are able to progress more rapidly than those who never experienced discomfort.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen
 

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Authentic Art is always authentically religious - Tracts of the Sun

“Authentic Art is always authentically religious – even though it might not resemble any existing religion.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

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Vajra command is the instruction to be totally alive - Tracts of the Sun

“There is no sense in which ‘vajra command’ is anything other than the instruction to be totally alive.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

 

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The essential method is to be free in the nature of chaos - Tracts of the Sun

“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 understanding is manacled to mundane meaning unless one can allow understanding to be amorphous, nebulous, unstructured, formless, or unformed.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

 

 

 

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Falling in love with one’s Lama - is the love that is inspired by the nature of reality - Tracts of the Sun

One cannot avoid falling in love with one’s Lama – but it cannot be romantic, in the Mills and Boon sense. It is the love one feels for a benevolent monarch, the noble captain of a ship, or an altruistic hero or heroine. More than this however – it is the love that is inspired by the nature of reality.
— Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen

 

 

 

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Joy is upliftedness – the natural response to phenomena and to being alive - Tracts of the Sun

“rLung rTa—Wind Horse—is enjoyment. Enjoyment means to occasion or to engender joy. Joy is upliftedness – the natural response to phenomena and to being alive.”
― Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen
 

 

 

 

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