Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} E-mailing the From Afar by Ngakpa Chögyam E-mailing the Lamas From Afar by Ngakpa Chögyam. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Cloudflare Ray ID: 6619e320eb07c2a9 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. E-mailing the Lamas from Afar. Heart Advice from Two Buddhist Teachers to Their Students. By Ngakpa Ch�gyam and Khandro D�chen. This book carries into the 21 st century the teachings of an ancient spiritual tradition, non-monastic , the vehicle of transformation and of direct essential understanding of the nature of mind, within the activities and circumstances of ordinary human life. Two contemporary teachers reply to the e-mail questions of their students, questions which concern the full range of the students� lives, from the fine points of Buddhist teachings to the nitty-gritty details of relationship, work, family life, and interpersonal conflict. They demonstrate, through concrete examples, the unconditional applicability of Vajrayana Buddhist teachings and practice to all realms of experience. Serious practitioners of Buddhism or any other spiritual discipline rooted in ordinary human life will find here a wealth of warm-hearted and incisive personal advice. Dechen. If you have information about this name , share it in the comments area below! Numerology information Dechen: Name Number: 3. Meaning: Communication, Interaction, Friendship, Joy, Lightness, Humor, Art, Positivity, Optimism. 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Books about Dechen: Spectrum of Ecstasy: Embracing the Five Wisdom Emotions of Vajrayana Buddhism - Jul 8, 2003 by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen Spectrum of Ecstasy: Embracing Emotions as the Path of Inner - Nov 1997 by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of - Dec 3, 2002 by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen E-Mailing the Lamas from Afar - Apr 13, 2012 by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen A PRAYER TO MEET WITH THE TEACHINGS OF JE TSONG KHAPA - Jan 28, 2011 by Kyabje Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo and Vincent Montenegro Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon - Apr 13, 2009 by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth - Dec 1, 2014 by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechen Way of the Serpent: A Novel - Jun 5, 2015 by Donna Dechen Birdwell E-Mailing the Lamas From Afar - Feb 9, 2009 by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen PLEGARIA PARA ENCONTRAR LAS ENSEÑANZAS DEL GRAN JE TSONG KHAPA (Spanish Edition) - Jan 18, 2011 by Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoché Dechen Ñingpo and Rosario Abraham Montenegro Spectrum of Ecstasy: Embracing the Five Wisdom Emotions of Vajrayana Buddhism by Chogyam, Ngakpa, Dechen, Khandro. - by Chogyam Dispeller of Darkness: A Dechen Zoban Mystery II (Dechen Zoban Mysteries) - Dec 14, 2011 by Robert J. 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It is located in the northern part of the Sauerland at Iserlohn. 360 metres of the 870-metre long cave have been laid out for visitors. Dechen Phrodrang meaning "Palace of Great Bliss" is a Buddhist monastery in , . It is located to the north of the city. In 1971 it became a monastic school and currently it has 450 student monks enrolled in eight-year courses with a. Dechen Shak-Dagsay is a contemporary singer of traditional Tibetan Buddhist mantras in new modern melodies for younger generation. She is the daughter of the Dagsay . Born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1959, Dechen and her family moved to Switzerland. Dechen Chöling is the residential practice center of the European Shambhala Buddhist community. The center sits in a land of rolling meadows near Limoges, France. Dechen Chöling is a part of Shambhala Europe - a network of more than 45 urban. Dechen Wangdu is the wife of Adam Yauch. Jetsun Dechen Wangmo was a Tibetan Buddhist. Princess Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuck is a princess of Bhutan. She is the daughter of the 4th King of Bhutan and sister of the 5th King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. She has a degree in international relations from Stanford. Dechen Pem started singing in 1994 and had an album produced through Norling Drayang. She won numerous awards including the award for Best Playback Singer at the 8th National Film Awards as well as the award for Best Playback Singer at the 1st. Antonio Pérez Dechent is a Spanish actor. He performed in more than ninety films since 1987. The , also known as Pungtang Dechen Photrang Dzong, is the administrative centre of Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan. Constructed by , 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, in 1637–38, it is the second oldest and second largest dzong. Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen was a German geologist. He was born in Berlin, and was educated at the University of Berlin. He subsequently studied mining in Bochum and Essen, and was in 1820 placed in the mining department of the Prussian state. Dechen Yangzom Wangchuck is the daughter of Jigme Singye Wangchuck and Tshering Yangdon. Dechencholing Palace is located in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, 4 kilometres to the north of the Tashichho Dzong and 7 kilometres north of the city centre. It was built in 1953 by the third king of Bhutan . Virginie Dechenaud is a French beauty pageant winner who represented Rhône-Alpes and placed first runner-up to Miss France 2010. illusory advice. illusory advice is a collection of brief teachings on Vajrayana Buddhism by Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, a married teaching couple in the Aro gTér . Each teaching—a page or two of text—is an edited version of an email exchange between the authors and one of their students. This format is the same as in E-mailing the Lamas from Afar by Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen. The ‘content’ of the book might be considered similar too, but each manifests the unique personality-display of its authors. Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin’s style is exceptionally straightforward, down-to-earth, and practical. That makes illusory advice particularly suitable for beginners. The topics are not merely ‘introductory,’ and long-time students of Vajrayana may also find the book valuable. However, you could understand almost everything in it with no prior knowledge or experience of Buddhism. illusory advice is not an introductory overview, textbook, or practice manual. It is direct personal advice on how to make sense of Vajrayana as part of everyday life in the contemporary world. That often remains mysterious to Western students—even to those with advanced conceptual understanding of Buddhist theory, and who may have practiced diligently in a traditional style for many years. Conventional texts on Tibetan Buddhism do not touch on the question, and few Tibetan teachers have much to say about it in person either. Ngakpa Zhal’mèd, who edited the book, organized the individual teachings into seven chapters: Truth & method; Relationship with the teacher; Living the view in everyday life; Being a practitioner in the world; ; The hell of being a practitioner; and Practice & openness. Of these, I especially appreciated the first and last. “Truth & method” largely concerns the relationship between and Tantra, which is the greatest source of confusion for Vajrayana beginners. “Practice & openness” could be taken as an introduction to Dzogchen, without any of the conceptual complexities that typically accompany its presentation. The book is copiously illustrated with striking black-and-white photographs taken by the authors. To give a sense of it: below are the editor’s introduction to the last chapter, and then two sample teachings. (The footnotes are in the original, not my additions.) illusory advice is available from Amazon in the U.S., and from other online booksellers worldwide. Practice & Openness. A recurring theme in Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngapka ’ö-Dzin’s teachings is the encouragement to develop a greater sense of openness. The word ‘openness’ can tend to be used as a synonym for ‘awareness,’ but whereas awareness can be understood in a wide variety of ways, ‘openness’ is somewhat more straightforward. Ngapka ’ö-Dzin describes it as the ‘capacity to remain uncertain about the outcome of a given situation.’ Openness is the key to Tantra in that it allows us to start relinquishing our tight grip on our definitions and preconceptions about how things should be. When I can remain open about a situation, and consider various outcomes without necessarily being fixed on the one I prefer, I begin to entertain the capacity for ambivalence. Ambivalence is the experience of having simultaneous conflicting feelings about a situation—being attracted to something and simultaneously put off. Most of the time, ambivalent situations make us feel uneasy because we have no convenient ‘form’ to latch onto, but our moments of ambivalence—if we manage to relax into them—can allow us to glimpse our nondual nature. When describing how our capacity for ambivalence reflects our capacity to live the view, Khandro Déchen says: ‘ The sensation of ambivalence is emptiness. The subject of ambivalence is form. The practice of ambivalence is to allow the two to seamlessly partake of each other. ’ Through openness we begin to get to know ourselves at a level of experience that is amorphous, manifold and in flux. And the more we cultivate our capacity to remain with this, the more we learn to cooperate with the sparkling through of our realised nature. Manipulation. Apprentice : How can I found out what is the purpose of my life? Sometimes it feels so hollow and pointless even though I practice. I feel as though I am manipulating my reality. Teachers : There is no purpose to life—in the sense of an ultimate purpose—there is only purpose in the moment. To give a simple example: there is a purpose in brushing your teeth because it will make your mouth feel nicer and help prevent gum disease so that your teeth won’t fall out. Your life will be more comfortable with a mouth full of teeth in healthy gums. However eventually your gums will rot and your teeth fall out—if not while you are alive, then certainly after you are dead—so there is no ultimate purpose in brushing your teeth. Being aware of the transient, in-the-moment purpose of brushing your teeth, you do so conscientiously, beautifully, with presence of mind—brushing teeth becomes an art form. It has its own purpose. Apprentice : Isn’t finding meaning in the moment manipulative—creating something that isn’t there? Isn’t practice merely a different sort of manipulation? Teachers : Practice could be seen as skillful manipulation. The aim of practice is to become kind and happy people, who benefit others and avoid harm. Practice skillfully manipulates your dualistic condition to change it into the realised state. You are not attempting to change a situation to a predetermined state, you are trying to open the situation and encourage clarity so that it can be exactly what it is. The outcome is open and undefined. Apprentice : I feel as though I am battling with the reality of my situation. Teachers : You may be experiencing a sense of battling because you are not allowing the situation to open of itself , but are trying to force something to happen. If your experience is a lack of purpose, then that is the experience of the moment and you enter the dimension of purposelessness. We would advise that you do not try to force a sense of purpose into it. Pure… impure? Apprentice : I have a question about practice in relation to one of the fourteen root vows of Tantra. 1 This is about the vow of not regarding the five psycho-physical elements 2 as impure. I have a strong tendency to regard my sensory experience very much as ‘not enlightened’—somehow unrelated to practice. It is as if the psycho-physical elements are magical things existing in some ‘other space’ disconnected from my ordinary moment-by-moment experience. This often leads me to view my ordinary life and experience as a hindrance or obstacle to practice, which doesn’t seem quite right! Teachers : You have a background of sutric practice, so it is going to take you a little while to understand the Vajrayana perspective. To regard the body as impure—or anything as impure—is a limited and dualistic perspective. Purity and impurity may appear as definite separate states, yet we can quite easily understand—with a little investigation—that purity or impurity are only relative definitions base in a particular view. From the perspective of Vajrayana there is no pure or impure—everything is available for transformation. Tantra begins with the experience of emptiness—the pregnant space from which form arises. Form is simply that which arises—and does not need to be viewed in terms of pure and or impure. Human bodies are as they are and are available for appreciation. Samsara is not a separate existence to . 3 They are the same experience—it is the view that changes. The fourteen root vows of Tantra are the central practice of any tantrika. They are vows of ‘view’ in that one practices viewing phenomenal reality according to the vows. At an essential level, the fourteen root vows are a dynamic description of realised mind. To practice the vows is to attempt to remain within the felt meaning of what they indicate. In Sutra, the psycho-physical elements are taught as the five : form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness… In the view of Sutra, liberation involves their progressive purification. In Vajrayana, however, the psycho-physical elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space) are considered intrinsically pure. One does not need to purify them, one simply recognises their beginningless purity. Samsara: literally ’going around in circles’; cyclic existence characterised by dissatisfaction. Nirvana: state of perfection. To say that nirvana and samsara are not separate is a Dzogchen view. In Dzogchen, samsara—duality—is seen as a distortion of non- duality. As such, nirvana is discovered when we let go of our dualistic habits. Copyright © 2008-2021 David Chapman. Some links are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program. Books by Aro gT�r Tradition Lamas. 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