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

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Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
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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

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Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
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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

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Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
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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

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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

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Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
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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

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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

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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

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Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
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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

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Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books worldwide, 2022
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