All teachings by Khandro Déchen

Kindness & Compassion

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen interviewed by Naljorma Jig’mèd Khyungtsal Pamo
Questioner Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen, how can one work with oneself when one finds …

Knowledge

shérab – shes rab – prajna paramita

Khandro Déchen Shérab (shes rab) means intelligence or insight. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche called it: ‘. . . the all – seeing eye, …

Living the View

"We are form and emptiness—emptiness and form."

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Our advice is to deliberately name everything which moves you to smiles, laughter, or tears as Padmasambhava or Yeshé Tsogyel—because …

Living the View

"The idea is to find the ambivalence in every situation and stay with it – know it, feel it, taste it."

Khandro Déchen Living the view means living with the knowledge that Vajrayana is not separate from the stream of reality that you …

Mature and immature tolerance

Part 1 of an interview with the lineage holders by Lama Shardröl, 31 December 1997.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen & Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo This is the first half of an interview originally published in Vision magazine in 1998 (issue 11). The second half, …

Method

Thab (thabs – skilful means, compassionate activity)

Khandro Déchen Thabs—method—is the way of unconditioned appropriate responsiveness to nowness. Method is the response to space. Because pure perception is not …

Misery

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I am wondering about what you said recently about ‘remaining free of the prison of moodiness’. Could you say …

motivation is always mixed

Khandro Déchen Apprentice Could you say something about finding a balance between perfectionism in Dharma projects on one extreme, and on the …

No More Songs? (Interview – Part IV)

17 September 2011

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Q: Rinpoche, I hate to ask this question – as I suspect I know your answer . . . and …

On Prejudice, Vajrayana, and the Perception of “Otherness”

20 March 2020

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen In this article, Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen, address the topic of prejudice from the point of view of Dzgchen.
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Opening ourselves to the unlikely

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I have read that, being in the Nyingma Tradition, we are in some way accident prone—that we are heirs …

Openness

bSam gTan – dhyana paramita – meditative stability

Khandro Déchen Samten (bSam gTan – dhyana – concentration) is defined as Tsé gÇig Nyon-mong ’méd (rTse gCig nyon mongs med) meditative …

Owl precepts Q&A part 1 - killing

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Question Rinpoche—in terms of the precept of avoiding killing—what is meant by ‘Tantrikas extend themselves to others . . . …

Owl precepts Q&A part 2 - stealing

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Question I think a lot of us have been concerned about exploitation and not wanting to be part of exploitation …

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 …

Patience

zopa – bZod pa – kshanti paramita

Khandro Déchen Ngak’chang Rinpoche was once travelling by car to a retreat with our disciple Naljorma Jig’mèd. They became embroiled in a …

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 …

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 …

Primordial Wisdom

yeshé – ye she – jnana paramita

Khandro Déchen Yeshé is primordially good. Kunkhyen Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche—in discussing the subject of ‘basic goodness’—speaks of it as a reflection of …

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 …

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 June 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. …

‘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? …