All teachings by Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Owl precepts Q&A part 3 - adulteration

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Question This is usually spoken of as sexual misconduct isn’t it?
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Usually.
Q And so I have always wondered exactly …

Owl precepts Q&A part 4 - falsehood

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Question Rinpoche, in terms of avoiding contentious speech . . . how does debate function in a Buddhist school where …

Owl precepts Q&A part 5 - intoxication

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen The ’ug gDong mKha’ ’gro sNying thig mDo is a pattern that spreads from the point-instant of awareness to all …

Panic is not an option

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice Can you tell me what I can do when life gets too much? I sometimes feel as if I …

Peace and quiet

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Prospective apprentice Can you suggest how I can best proceed with your teaching on meditation when it is almost impossible …

personal magic

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice Can I ask a question about magic and what is meant by magic? People seem to use the word …

Pride and Prejudice

A teaching on Essential Vajrayana and the dualistic perception of ‘otherness’.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen This is a text on the nature of the cause of prejudice — given by Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen …

Q&A - Dzogchen long-dé

psycho-physical sKu-mNyé exercises

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Dzogchen means ‘utter totality’, and refers to the natural liberated condition of the individual. This state of innate enlightenment is …

Q&A - Enthusiasm

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Q Rinpoche, in ‘Spectrum of Ecstasy’ you talk about mirroring each other’s kyil’khors, or mandalas. Could you talk a bit …

Q&A - Non-conceptuality

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Q Within the non-dual state, what happens with memories of things? Do you experience them?
R Why would you not experience …

Q&A - Nyams in Dzogchen

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Dzogchen regards certain nyams as opportunities to recognise rigpa. This transcript (excerpted from Vision issue 11, Autumn 1998) discusses several …

Q&A - On becoming transparent

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Q The hell I often visit is anxiety – what actually is that Rinpoche?
R It is what keeps you safe. …

Q&A - Promise & process

The nature of vow-holding

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Question: Is it correct that the vows and the practice of keeping the vows are process as well as promise …

Q&A - The Bristol Talks

Vajrayana and yidam practice

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Questioner Rinpoche, Vajrayana Buddhism is highly complex and intellectual – is there an approach for people who don’t have academic …

Q&A - The certain time and place

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Rinpoche We have looked—so far—at the certain teacher and the certain teaching. Then there are the certainties of time and …

Q&A - "Where there is a dog there will also be a tail"

Ngak’chang Rinpoche We have to change ourselves in order to accommodate the imperatives of Dharma – not the other way round. Outer …

Realised Losers

rDzogs chen and tantric tonglen

Ngak’chang Rinpoche One has to look at one’s own capacity in the moment. To artificially assume Dzogchen view—and attempt to maintain it …

Remembering Jétsunma Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar

19 Ebrill 2024

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Jétsunma Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar was one of the last great yoginis to have trained in Tibet. Shas been a personal …

Riding the Tiger

gö kar chang lo ordination

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Almost everyone who attends a gö kar chang lo ordination retreat thinks about the possibility of taking ordination themselves at …

Saga Dawa Düchen – a month in which the value of kindness is amplified

8 Mehefin 2019

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Saga Dawa Düchen (sa ga zLa ba dus chen / ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་) is one of the four major Buddhist calendar events. …

Samsara, suffering, and suspicion

The path to endless enjoyment

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Ngak’chang Rinpoche recorded at the San Francisco Shambhala Center, March 2006. An 18-minute overview of Sutrayana from point of view …

‘Self’-immolation

gö kar chang lo ordination

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Vajrayana vows throw a can of gasoline into the splicing room. In terms of practice—within the tradition of Vajrayana—vows encourage …

sequentiality still exists, simply of itself

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Prosepective apprentice The Lama at the centre feels that his real rôle is to help students recognise what their path …

shifting experiential norms

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice You mentioned, in relation to compassion, the concept of ‘shifting experiential norms’. Would you explain how that functions?
Lamas It …

sNying mDo

The heart essence of unconventional wisdom

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen The Heart Sutra is a condensed statement of the whole of the Buddhist view of the nature of reality. Its …

some of them should be manacled

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Prospective apprentice There is an impression I have from being around your sangha that I have not found elsewhere – …

some sort of syrupy saint

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I have read books by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche where he mentions ‘idiot compassion’. Can you say something about that? …

Speaking With the Ravens

3 Ionawr 2015

Ngak’chang Rinpoche NY Arts Magazine published an interview by Tchera Niyego with Ngak’chang Rinpoche titled “Speaking With the Ravens.”
The interview uses Rinpoche’s …

Spontaneity and Discipline in the Sangha

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen ...to merge mirth and meaningfulness, frivolity and fierce commitment, revelry and rigpa.
Dorje gendün—indestructible association—means the community of practitioners who are …

spurn dejection at every turn

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I had been expecting a telephone call this week—a call which had not arrived—until I suddenly realised that they …