Embracing Emotions as the Path

The kyil’khor (mandala / pervasive elemental-matrix) of emotional being as the portal of possibility. The elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space are a continuum which runs through the conduit of existence. They animate the world of vision and the world in which we live.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen will explore this brilliant matrix – delving the natural symbolism of the phenomenal world – so we can learn directly from the display of the elements which constitute our physical situation. We will learn to see the five Buddha families as our sense fields and our environment. We will learn to experience our emotions as the language of appreciative empathetic communication.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen will introduce the non-conceptual approach of Dzogchen through which we can realise that our most painful, as well as our most joyous emotions, can be allowed to expand into their innately limitless condition. These teachings are not for those without strong emotions, or without the courage to experience their heights and depths as an opportunity to be totally alive.

“The elements of our world, bodies, intelligence, emotion, and vision – are the nexus of nœtic nascence. This means that we are open to realisation – just as we are. There is nothing to change before we begin. However we are is where we begin – but not to change how we are, simply to release how we are into the dimension of actively appreciative empathy.” Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen