All teachings by Khandro Déchen or Ngak’chang Rinpoche

The initial display

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen A brief overview of how to relate to unsatisfactoriness without dwelling on it or becoming miserable, as explained by Lamas. The text emphasizes observing the initial experience with clarity rather than getting caught up in commentary and conceptualization, allowing for a sense of spaciousness and non-referentiality.

The Lama-Student Relationship within Dzogchen

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen We have long realised that we cannot work with those who need their Lamas to sit on shoulder height thrones …

The Little Buddha

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice I have been practicing shi-nè for a year now, and I swear it’s making me crazier rather than saner.
Ngak’chang …

The malodorous security of last night’s curry

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice There is something a little irritating about shi-nè when I practise it properly—I mean when I don’t zone out …

The Meaning of Transmission

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen The essential meaning of transmission lies in continually experiencing oneself in relation to the Lama.
The function of the Lamas – …

the surrogate compassion of an arrogant dharmite

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I am used to hearing teachings which continually emphasise compassion—and since I became an apprentice I have been aware …

The technique could become a tourniquet

Khandro Déchen Prospective apprentice I am very interested in meditation techniques. Could you give me an example of meditation technique in your …

The ‘ten second problem’

Khandro Déchen Apprentice I would like to ask you about practice. Why is it that my practice is often such a contrast …

The Vajra Simpleton

Khandro Déchen Advice from Khandro Déchen
Ngak’chang Rinpoche and I always recommend that people keep their lives simple – but what might …

The Vehicles

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen As you get to understand Buddhism better, you will come to understand what a beautiful geometry it makes. The ways …

The Yanas

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Ngak’chang Rinpoche recorded at the San Francisco Shambhala Center, April 2006. A 13-minute talk.
To learn more about the yanas, …

The year of the Dog

A teaching on ‘time in transit’

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen There are many ways in which we could examine the meaning of the Fire Dog year. We could look at …

They may as well have kissed Barney Rubble

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice The intellect seems to get a raw deal in our lineage.
Ngak’chang Rinpoche That has more to do with Khandro …

They spook from time to time

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice In your reply to my last letter you said that I should try to celebrate whenever obstacles arose, and …

Tralam-mé

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Authentic relationship to the dimension of sexuality—in terms of Aro gTér practice—is linked with the Dzogchen teachings of the Khandro …

Tralam-mé Q&A (1)

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Q Rinpoche, do you have awareness of people’s tralam-mé?
R Yes – but it is not necessary. You can know the …

Tralam-mé Q&A (2)

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Q Is it possible to see tralam-mé?
R Yes, in a manner of speaking – but it is more that you …

trust in the humor of the situation

Khandro Déchen Apprentice When you’re in a situation where you’re experiencing ambivalence or resistance . . . you said that I should …

‘Unless you are an imbecile. . .’ (Drala Jong Interview – Part III)

13 September 2011

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Q: What sort of location do you have in mind?
KD: It depends on how much money we raise. It depends …

Vajrayana Buddhism in the West

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen This is not ‘just for us’; not even the Aro gTér is ‘just for us’.
People often speak of preserving the …

Wealth

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen We were asked for our views on ‘envy’ in respect of ‘giving up materialism as the Buddhist way of life’. …

we thought we had no spare time left

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Prospective apprentice Is it feasible for a man or woman with a career, children, and family obligations to practise Vajrayana? …

when we forget to ‘do samsara’

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice Rinpoche, when you were teaching at Pema ’ö-Sel Ling, you said that one could be inspired by natural phenomena …

Wisdom Eccentrics

Read by Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Rumours of realisation as told by Künzang Dorje Rinpoche with additional tales of the unexpected by Ngak'chang Rinpoche.
A rare …

Worry is the mind’s attempt to stay safe

Khandro Déchen Apprentice Again and again lately, I have been reminded of the observation that when one strays from the natural state, …

you are braver than you think you are

Khandro Déchen Apprentice I would like some advice about how I deal with my emotions, and the conceptual disarray that has comes …