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Acknowledgements

• Acknowledgements – it is with great gratitude…

Animal realm

• Coming up for Air: animal realm – they are bound by the limitations they place upon themselves and are bound by their submission to limitations placed upon them by others.

Application

• Spontaneity: application – the path of the Vajrayana practitioner is a marathon not a sprint.

Appreciation

• Infinite Impermanence: appreciation – how delightful to quaff the electricity of existence!

Aro Lineage history

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Aro Yeshé.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Ayé Khandro.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Jomo Menmo.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Khandro Chö-ying Nyima.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Khandro Tsé-wang.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Mönmo Tashi Chhi’drèn.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – MagÇig Labdrön.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp.

Aro Yeshé

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Aro Yeshé.

Authenticity

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: authenticity – the Four Thoughts teach us everything we need to know to be authentic practitioners.

Author

• Author – the first Western Ngakma to wear the robes of the white sangha.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin – cover photograph.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin – having trained in homœopathy, reflexology and hypnotherapy, it was a natural progression for her to begin practising pulse diagnosis.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin – teaches with her husband and sang-yab, Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin Tridral.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin – celebrating tsog.

Awakening

• Awakening: fear – they fear that they have lost their power and influence over me.
• Awakening: method – method means that the way of practice can be followed without the whole structure of the religion being understood from the outset.
• Awakening: practice – Dharma teachers continually emphasise the need to practice.
• Awakening: preliminaries – each approach to the realised state includes a set of preliminary practices.
• Awakening: pullquote – one discovers that the nature of being.
• Awakening: religion – a religion has a structure and clear parameters which cannot be ignored when they do not suit our convenience.
• Awakening: therapy – but then I would be a therapee who practices silent sitting.
• Irrational Reason: awakening – there is nowhere to hide if you take refuge in Buddha.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Ayé Khandro.

Ayé Khandro

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Ayé Khandro.

Biography

• Author – the first Western Ngakma to wear the robes of the white sangha.

Blog

• Blog – http://spacious-passion.blogspot.com.

Book cover

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér.

Buddha karma

• Quelling the Storm: Buddha karma – there are four Buddhakarmas which relate to the elements as they arise from space.

Cause & effect

• Quelling the Storm: cause & effect – response, effect, reaction is not predetermined.

Coming up for Air

• Coming up for Air: animal realm – they are bound by the limitations they place upon themselves and are bound by their submission to limitations placed upon them by others.
• Coming up for Air: gods – everything is perfect and easy in their self-referential world.
• Coming up for Air: hell realms – where psychosis is vividly and excruciatingly intense.
• Coming up for Air: human realm – they have the capacity to observe their own processes of discrimination and to laugh at their own need to philosophise.
• Coming up for Air: jealous gods – are actively ambitious but lack potency and commitment.
• Coming up for Air: perpetuation – we tend to continue to create the causes for whatever perceptual state we find ourselves in.
• Coming up for Air: precious human rebirth – to live with wholesome dedication to a path which develops wisdom and compassion is not so common.
• Coming up for Air: pullquote – we must live our lives as warriors.
• Coming up for Air: realms – I heard that I had probably spent aeons in the lower suffering realms of physical existence prior to this life.
• Coming up for Air: rebirth – to take rebirth does not necessarily mean having to die physically and be reborn physically.
• Coming up for Air: struggle & relaxation – the non-referential quality of these practices enables us to let go of our ordinary view.
• Coming up for Air: yidags – they are always hungry, for mental and physical nourishment.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Jomo Menmo.

Commitment

• Irrational Reason: commitment – You have to saturate yourself in knowing the human being as a Lama and the Lama as a human being.

Complete karma

• Quelling the Storm: complete karma – satisfaction may not always mean we feel ‘happy’.

Confidence

• Irrational Reason: confidence – glimpses of rigpa can arise spontaneously through the initial cessation of struggling.

Continuity

• Infinite Impermanence: continuity – impermanence and death are the continuity of existence.

Danger

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: danger – Tantra is dangerous because the Lama engages with our neuroses to transform them.

Death

• Infinite Impermanence: death – many people actively avoid thinking about death and loss.

Devotion

• Irrational Reason: devotion – is the ground from which vajra relationship functions.

Dissatisfaction

• Sparkling Puddles: dissatisfaction – it is the distortion of our perception as human that causes us to experience dissatisfaction.

Dying

• Infinite Impermanence: dying – I can recognise death as a natural process occurring in each moment.

Dzogchen

• Sky Mind: Dzogchen – its base, path, and fruit are spontaneity; the natural, unfabricated flow of the continuum of non-dual perception.

Eightfold path

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: approaches – can be looked at in many different ways.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: eightfold path – to engage in the practice of the Eightfold Path wholeheartedly is to walk the path of the warrior.

Elemental pulses

• Ngakma Nor’dzin – having trained in homœopathy, reflexology and hypnotherapy, it was a natural progression for her to begin practising pulse diagnosis.

Emotions

• Spontaneity: emotions – does emotion change when we start practising?

Emptiness

• Sky Mind: emptiness – we feel that emptiness undermines form and that this is the reason we experience unhappiness.

Fear

• Awakening: fear – they fear that they have lost their power and influence over me.

Focus

• Irrational Reason: focus – it is important to eventually settle down and commit to one group.

Foreword

• Foreword – Tanzin Rinpoche’s foreword in Tibetan.

Form

• Sky Mind: form – form maintains the illusion of inherent selfness.

Four thoughts

• Sparkling Puddles: four thoughts – can take this understanding further and continue to wake up.

Glossary

• Glossary – a glossary of terms used in the book.

God realm

• Coming up for Air: gods – everything is perfect and easy in their self-referential world.

Happy mind

• Infinite Impermanence: happy mind – dying with a happy mind is beneficial.

Hell realms

• Coming up for Air: hell realms – where psychosis is vividly and excruciatingly intense.

Human realm

• Coming up for Air: human realm – they have the capacity to observe their own processes of discrimination and to laugh at their own need to philosophise.

Hungry ghosts

• Coming up for Air: yidags – they are always hungry, for mental and physical nourishment.

Impermanence

• Infinite Impermanence: dying – I can recognise death as a natural process occurring in each moment.

Incomplete karma

• Quelling the Storm: incomplete karma – it is incomplete because you recognised that the kind motivation went wrong.

Infinite Impermancence

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Mönmo Tashi Chhi’drèn.

Infinite Impermanence

• Infinite Impermanence: appreciation – how delightful to quaff the electricity of existence!
• Infinite Impermanence: continuity – impermanence and death are the continuity of existence.
• Infinite Impermanence: death – many people actively avoid thinking about death and loss.
• Infinite Impermanence: dying – I can recognise death as a natural process occurring in each moment.
• Infinite Impermanence: happy mind – dying with a happy mind is beneficial.
• Infinite Impermanence: letting go – when we see joy and appreciation naturally dissolve, we fear they will never arise again.
• Infinite Impermanence: permanence – life-without-death would mean that it was always today and never our birthday.
• Infinite Impermanence: presence – if we are alive in the present moment then past loss or future loss are irrelevant.
• Infinite Impermanence: pullquote – our opportunity to discover presence.
• Infinite Impermanence: rebirth – the birth is new form arising from the dissolution of old form.

Intention

• Quelling the Storm: intention – motivation is the primary factor in karma.

Introduction

• Introduction – Ngala Nor’dzin Pamo became our first disciple.

Irrational Reason

• Irrational Reason: awakening – there is nowhere to hide if you take refuge in Buddha.
• Irrational Reason: commitment – You have to saturate yourself in knowing the human being as a Lama and the Lama as a human being.
• Irrational Reason: confidence – glimpses of rigpa can arise spontaneously through the initial cessation of struggling.
• Irrational Reason: devotion – is the ground from which vajra relationship functions.
• Irrational Reason: focus – it is important to eventually settle down and commit to one group.
• Irrational Reason: Lama – the Lama wants to push me beyond what I think is possible.
• Irrational Reason: objects – to seek refuge in Buddha is to recognise the goal of the non-dual state.
• Irrational Reason: pullquote – the nature of mind is non-dual.
• Irrational Reason: refuge – the initial venture into spiritual commitment is the ceremony of refuge.
• Irrational Reason: safety – at first I may believe that to take refuge is to find a method of safety and a place of protection.
• Irrational Reason: samsara – it is not that it is naughty, bad, or wicked, but that it does not even function in its own terms.
• Irrational Reason: transformation – we experience the horror and transform the feeling of being overwhelmed into ubiquitous intelligence.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp.

Jealous gods

• Coming up for Air: jealous gods – are actively ambitious but lack potency and commitment.

Jomo Menmo

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Jomo Menmo.

Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér.

Khandro Chö-ying Nyima

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Khandro Chö-ying Nyima.

Khandro Tsé-wang

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Khandro Tsé-wang.

Kindness

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: kindness – it’s bad news for the child if the parent cannot enforce discipline firmly from a position of kindness.
• Spontaneity: kindness – there is nothing inherent in Dzogchen view which would lead to coldness.

Lama

• Irrational Reason: Lama – the Lama wants to push me beyond what I think is possible.

Letting go

• Infinite Impermanence: letting go – when we see joy and appreciation naturally dissolve, we fear they will never arise again.

Lulu Publishing

• Spacious Passion – how to purchase the book.

MagÇig Labdrön

• Spacious Passion illustrations – MagÇig Labdrön.

Meditation

• Quelling the Storm: meditation – one of the primary methods of developing this spaciousness is through meditation.

Merit

• Spontaneity: merit – I find accumulating merit a strange idea.

Method

• Awakening: method – method means that the way of practice can be followed without the whole structure of the religion being understood from the outset.

Ngakma Nor’dzin

• Author – the first Western Ngakma to wear the robes of the white sangha.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin – cover photograph.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin – teaches with her husband and sang-yab, Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin Tridral.
• Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin – celebrating tsog.

Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin

• Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin – celebrating tsog.

Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp.

Ngöndro

• Spontaneity: ngöndro – the non-referential quality of these practices enables us to let go of our ordinary view.

noble truths

• Sparkling Puddles: noble truths – understanding the unsatisfactoriness of samsara is the first of the four noble truths.

Non-duality

• Sky Mind: non-duality – inevitably we do experience non-duality in our lives.

Objects of refuge

• Irrational Reason: objects – to seek refuge in Buddha is to recognise the goal of the non-dual state.

Pain

• Sparkling Puddles: pain – if we did not feel pain we would be in great danger of damaging ourselves continually.

Paradox

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: paradox – the nature of the path of Tantra is ambiguity and paradox.

Perception & response

• Quelling the Storm: perception & response – Dharma offers methods to completely explode our neurotic patterning.

Permanence

• Infinite Impermanence: permanence – life-without-death would mean that it was always today and never our birthday.

Philosophical extremes

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: philosophical extremes – the path of the middle way is free from the four referential extremes of monism, dualism, nihilism, and eternalism..

Practice

• Awakening: practice – Dharma teachers continually emphasise the need to practice.

Precious human rebirth

• Coming up for Air: precious human rebirth – to live with wholesome dedication to a path which develops wisdom and compassion is not so common.

Preliminary practice

• Awakening: preliminaries – each approach to the realised state includes a set of preliminary practices.

Presence

• Infinite Impermanence: presence – if we are alive in the present moment then past loss or future loss are irrelevant.

Pullquote

• Awakening: pullquote – one discovers that the nature of being.
• Coming up for Air: pullquote – we must live our lives as warriors.
• Infinite Impermanence: pullquote – our opportunity to discover presence.
• Irrational Reason: pullquote – the nature of mind is non-dual.
• Quelling the Storm: pullquote – our patterning becomes transparent.
• Sky Mind: pullquote –the still potential of the nature-of-mind.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: pullquote – we can realise the potential of non-dual.
• Sparkling Puddles: pullquote – all are the play of existence.
• Spontaneity: pullquote – the most efficacious practice.

Pulse diagnosis

• Ngakma Nor’dzin – having trained in homœopathy, reflexology and hypnotherapy, it was a natural progression for her to begin practising pulse diagnosis.

Purchase

• Spacious Passion – how to purchase the book.

Pure view

• Spontaneity: pure view – we can try to view each other as people who practice pure view and bask in the appreciation of that.

Purity

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: purity – as soon as we feel that anyone is beyond compassionate consideration we become closer to the person we condemn.

Quelling the Storm

• Quelling the Storm: Buddha karma – there are four Buddhakarmas which relate to the elements as they arise from space.
• Quelling the Storm: cause & effect – response, effect, reaction is not predetermined.
• Quelling the Storm: complete karma – satisfaction may not always mean we feel ‘happy’.
• Quelling the Storm: incomplete karma – it is incomplete because you recognised that the kind motivation went wrong.
• Quelling the Storm: intention – motivation is the primary factor in karma.
• Quelling the Storm: meditation – one of the primary methods of developing this spaciousness is through meditation.
• Quelling the Storm: perception & response – Dharma offers methods to completely explode our neurotic patterning.
• Quelling the Storm: pullquote – our patterning becomes transparent.
• Quelling the Storm: referentiality – this process of patterning is also the mechanism that creates opinions.
• Quelling the Storm: root misconceptions – attraction, aversion, and indifference are simply the inevitable outcome of dualism.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – tiger.

Realms

• Coming up for Air: gods – everything is perfect and easy in their self-referential world.
• Coming up for Air: perpetuation – we tend to continue to create the causes for whatever perceptual state we find ourselves in.
• Coming up for Air: realms – I heard that I had probably spent aeons in the lower suffering realms of physical existence prior to this life.

Rebirth

• Coming up for Air: rebirth – to take rebirth does not necessarily mean having to die physically and be reborn physically.
• Infinite Impermanence: rebirth – the birth is new form arising from the dissolution of old form.

Referentiality

• Quelling the Storm: referentiality – this process of patterning is also the mechanism that creates opinions.

Refuge

• Irrational Reason: refuge – the initial venture into spiritual commitment is the ceremony of refuge.

Relaxation

• Coming up for Air: struggle & relaxation – the non-referential quality of these practices enables us to let go of our ordinary view.

Religion

• Awakening: religion – a religion has a structure and clear parameters which cannot be ignored when they do not suit our convenience.
• Sky Mind: matrix – the entire path, as a macrocosm, can be expressed and understood through each microcosm of teaching within it.

Robes

• Ngakma Nor’dzin – teaches with her husband and sang-yab, Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin Tridral.

Root misconceptions

• Quelling the Storm: root misconceptions – attraction, aversion, and indifference are simply the inevitable outcome of dualism.

Safety

• Irrational Reason: safety – at first I may believe that to take refuge is to find a method of safety and a place of protection.

Samsara

• Irrational Reason: samsara – it is not that it is naughty, bad, or wicked, but that it does not even function in its own terms.
• Sky Mind: samsara – to be disgusted with samsara is not to be disgusted with life.
• Sparkling Puddles: samsara – the process of attempting to succeed at duality because we believe success is possible.

Satisfaction

• Sparkling Puddles: satisfaction – success and satisfaction can only exist in the moment.

Sky Mind

• Sky Mind: Dzogchen – its base, path, and fruit are spontaneity; the natural, unfabricated flow of the continuum of non-dual perception.
• Sky Mind: emptiness – we feel that emptiness undermines form and that this is the reason we experience unhappiness.
• Sky Mind: form – form maintains the illusion of inherent selfness.
• Sky Mind: matrix – the entire path, as a macrocosm, can be expressed and understood through each microcosm of teaching within it.
• Sky Mind: more on vehicles – confused about Sutrayana and Vajrayana and how this fits in with Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen.
• Sky Mind: non-duality – inevitably we do experience non-duality in our lives.
• Sky Mind: pullquote –the still potential of the nature-of-mind.
• Sky Mind: samsara – to be disgusted with samsara is not to be disgusted with life.
• Sky Mind: vehicles – each vehicle is a complete path because it has a base, a path, and a fruit.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Aro Yeshé.

Spacious Passion & Passionate Space

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: approaches – can be looked at in many different ways.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: authenticity – the Four Thoughts teach us everything we need to know to be authentic practitioners.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: danger – Tantra is dangerous because the Lama engages with our neuroses to transform them.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: eightfold path – to engage in the practice of the Eightfold Path wholeheartedly is to walk the path of the warrior.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: kindness – it’s bad news for the child if the parent cannot enforce discipline firmly from a position of kindness.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: paradox – the nature of the path of Tantra is ambiguity and paradox.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: philosophical extremes – the path of the middle way is free from the four referential extremes of monism, dualism, nihilism, and eternalism..
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: pullquote – we can realise the potential of non-dual.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: purity – as soon as we feel that anyone is beyond compassionate consideration we become closer to the person we condemn.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: warriors – the warrior is not constricted by fear of failure or burdened with hope of success.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: warriorship – the fearlessness and hopelessness of the warrior is confidence in motivation, honour, and integrity.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: warriorship – we are, and have, everything we need to become enlightened.
• Spacious Passion illustrations – Khandro Chö-ying Nyima.

Sparkling Puddles

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Khandro Tsé-wang.
• Sparkling Puddles: dissatisfaction – it is the distortion of our perception as human that causes us to experience dissatisfaction.
• Sparkling Puddles: four thoughts – can take this understanding further and continue to wake up.
• Sparkling Puddles: noble truths – understanding the unsatisfactoriness of samsara is the first of the four noble truths.
• Sparkling Puddles: pain – if we did not feel pain we would be in great danger of damaging ourselves continually.
• Sparkling Puddles: pullquote – all are the play of existence.
• Sparkling Puddles: samsara – the process of attempting to succeed at duality because we believe success is possible.
• Sparkling Puddles: satisfaction – success and satisfaction can only exist in the moment.
• Sparkling Puddles: success – there is satisfaction in the moment.
• Sparkling Puddles: suffering – we need to understand the elusive nature of the suffering of those whose lives are apparently happy and successful.

Spheres of Being

• Spontaneity: Spheres of Being – it is useful to look at the three spheres, as an expression of the way in which we exist.

Spontaneity

• Spacious Passion illustrations – MagÇig Labdrön.
• Spontaneity: application – the path of the Vajrayana practitioner is a marathon not a sprint.
• Spontaneity: emotions – does emotion change when we start practising?
• Spontaneity: kindness – there is nothing inherent in Dzogchen view which would lead to coldness.
• Spontaneity: merit – I find accumulating merit a strange idea.
• Spontaneity: ngöndro – the non-referential quality of these practices enables us to let go of our ordinary view.
• Spontaneity: pullquote – the most efficacious practice.
• Spontaneity: pure view – we can try to view each other as people who practice pure view and bask in the appreciation of that.
• Spontaneity: Spheres of Being – it is useful to look at the three spheres, as an expression of the way in which we exist.
• Spontaneity: view – when view is open and clear, activity naturally arises that is congruent with the realisation of non-duality.

Struggle

• Coming up for Air: struggle & relaxation – the non-referential quality of these practices enables us to let go of our ordinary view.

Success

• Sparkling Puddles: success – there is satisfaction in the moment.

Suffering

• Sparkling Puddles: suffering – we need to understand the elusive nature of the suffering of those whose lives are apparently happy and successful.

Tashi Chhi’drèn

• Spacious Passion illustrations – Mönmo Tashi Chhi’drèn.

Therapy

• Awakening: therapy – but then I would be a therapee who practices silent sitting.

Tiger

• Spacious Passion illustrations – tiger.

Transformation

• Irrational Reason: transformation – we experience the horror and transform the feeling of being overwhelmed into ubiquitous intelligence.

Tsog khorlo

• Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin – celebrating tsog.

Vajra commitment

• Irrational Reason: commitment – You have to saturate yourself in knowing the human being as a Lama and the Lama as a human being.

Vehicles

• Sky Mind: more on vehicles – confused about Sutrayana and Vajrayana and how this fits in with Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen.
• Sky Mind: vehicles – each vehicle is a complete path because it has a base, a path, and a fruit.

View

• Spontaneity: view – when view is open and clear, activity naturally arises that is congruent with the realisation of non-duality.

Warriorship

• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: warriors – the warrior is not constricted by fear of failure or burdened with hope of success.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: warriorship – the fearlessness and hopelessness of the warrior is confidence in motivation, honour, and integrity.
• Spacious Passion & Passionate Space: warriorship – we are, and have, everything we need to become enlightened.

Wisdom Books

• Spacious Passion – how to purchase the book.

Yidags

• Coming up for Air: yidags – they are always hungry, for mental and physical nourishment.