“The difficulties or pains or resentments that get built up when people live or work together, the assumptions you make about other people and how things should be done are like old food in the pot. Each morning, when you meet each other, let it be like new fresh food! So don’t put new arisings into your dirty pot of […]
» Read more“Everything is already integrated within this mind so it is not about keeping the good and the bad separate. The good and the bad have no essence or substance; they are the ceaseless play of the clarity of the mind.”― James Low, The Mirror of Clear Meaning: A Commentary on the Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje
» Read more“First you make a solid substance, ‘me,’ and then you can apply an evaluative matrix: good, bad, right, wrong, successful, unsuccessful and so on. But when I am here with you there isn’t a ‘me’ and a ‘you’; there is ‘me with you’. It is our being with each other that allows the evolution of the shared field of experience […]
» Read moreLife comes as it comes. We do not know what events will arise and impact us. Struggling to stay in charge of what is occurring is exhausting, whilst letting events determine our situation is unwise. The Buddhist Middle Way indicates that we can rest in open awareness while avoiding the extremes of over-involvement and under-involvement. The Dzogchen teachings of relaxing […]
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