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Illusory Advice: Intensity

11 May 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "When you start to practise more intensely all sorts of aspects of yourself suddenly seem to come into focus and …

Illusory Advice: The Annoying Friend

5 May 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "Sangha members are the annoying friends who help each other to be real in the world and live their lives …

Illusory Advice: Pure view

29 April 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "To belong to a sangha and to be able to immerse oneself in the pure view of a practising Vajrayana …

Illusory Advice: Worthwhile pursuits

17 April 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "Spiritual practice is a worthwhile cause that can succeed. The path is valuable and the goal is achievable. Only spiritual …

Illusory Advice: Right livelihood

11 April 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "We are all always compromised. Being alive is the cause of discomfort or death for other beings. Every time you …

Illusory Advice: The perfect parent

5 April 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The path of the Mahasiddhas is to live life exactly as it is and to enable that to be the …

Illusory Advice: The wrong letter

30 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "Ngak’chang Rinpoche once told us a story. He was travelling with a lady who had experienced a difficult situation with …

Shock Amazement - Review - Each step has the quality of unfailing precision

25 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "This book elegantly traverses a very tricky subject. It crisply informs the reader about the exact nature of four different …

Illusory Advice: Looking good

24 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "When you attend an empowerment you are entering the presence of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel and presenting yourself smartly is …

Shock Amazement - Review - Introduction to Dzogchen

23 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "This book provides a clear and vigorous introduction to the practice of the first series of Dzogchen. The authors here …

Illusory Advice: Won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz

23 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "As practitioners it would be inappropriate to indulge in regretting having insufficient money to fulfil fantasies, such as going on …

Shock Amazement - Review - This is the best book on Dzogchen that I have ever seen

21 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "Dies ist das beste Buch über Dzogchen, dass ich jemals gesehen habe. Es gibt eine direkte Einführung in Dzogchen Sem-dé …

Shock Amazement - Review - A concentrated but spacious overview of dzogchen buddhism

19 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "This is one of my favourite books by Ngakpa Chogyam, or indeed of any other contemporary buddhist teacher. The writing …

Illusory Advice: Life is practice

18 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The style of practice in the gö kar chang lo is that life is practice. Practitioners find time to engage …

Shock Amazement - Review - Absolutely essential book on Dzogchen

17 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "Absolutely essential book on Dzogchen. Written with a simplicity and depth that makes this book a treasure to any practitioner. …

Shock Amazement - Review - A very clear introduction to the four naljors and the four ting-nge'dzin

15 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "This is the first series of Dzogchen. The nature of Mind. It gives a direct introduction to our non-dual nature.
It …

Shock Amazement - Review - a profound teaching and introduction to Dzogchen.

13 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "This truly is an amazing book. It is a slim volume, but needs to be read slowly. There is no …

Illusory Advice: It’s your birthday and I’ll cry if I want to

12 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "When a friend has a birthday you wrap their present as neatly as you can, knowing that the paper is …

Shock Amazement by Khandro Déchen and Ngakpa Chögyam - now available

9 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral Shock Amazement by Khandro Déchen and Ngakpa Chögyam
is now available from Lulu.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and other bookshops worldwide.
Dzogchen is the …

Illusory Advice: Worries

6 March 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "You cannot make the possibility of bad things happening go away by worrying about them. Facing fantasy projections does not …

Illusory Advice: The most useful practice

29 February 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The most useful practice to help cope with emotion when it arises is … yes you guessed … silent sitting. …

Illusory Advice: Difficult people

23 February 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "You cannot give up on someone because you find them difficult to be with, and you cannot condemn them to …

Illusory Advice: Energy of emotion

17 February 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "It is always a shame when an event does not go how you would have liked it to go, but …

Illusory Advice: Solutions

11 February 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "When you are working within a lineage of practice you allow the lineage to be bigger than you. Through embracing …

Illusory Advice: Visiting

5 February 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "It is always valuable to spend time with one’s teachers just doing ordinary things together. This encourages opportunities for informal …

Illusory Advice: Reflection

30 January 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The teacher offers the opportunity for the student to see the situation from a new perspective and transform it for …

Illusory Advice: Change

24 January 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The main changes that occur to practitioners are internal. As your understanding and depth of practice increases, your view will …

Illusory Advice: Scary Teacher

18 January 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The relationship with the teacher needs to be challenging if you wish to change, but there are other aspects of …

Illusory Advice: Opinions

12 January 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "Most people have times when they are opinionated and self-important, and recognising this is half way to letting such things …

Illusory Advice: Ignoring or accepting?

6 January 2020

’ö-Dzin Tridral "The Dzogchen approach is indeed to accept, with cheer and goodwill, that whatever way things are happening, that is the …