Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon

It sounds as if you are referring to Trungpa Rinpoche.

being alive to phenomenal reality makes one deeply attractive. Love and romantic sexual attraction are founded in being alive throughout one’s sense fields.

The teaching offered by one’s lover needs either to be spontaneously discovered, or to be assiduously sought out. It is there to be found in the presence of one’s lover – as a physio-emotional display

foray. It is the pawo’s knowledge that he is already dead. There is no lucky charm, no escape clause.

If one is hypercritical of everyone one meets then falling love is unlikely.

work. It is the job of the Lama to help the disciple see that samsara does not work.

The problem with commitment is not commitment itself – it is the loss of the ‘unacknowledged ingredient’ which accidentally facilitated the inadvertent practice of wisdom and compassion – the emptiness aspect of the relationship.

Maybe there are no evident messages. Maybe I have to remain with the sense in which my co-ordinates are shifting: I thought I knew who I was . . . I thought I knew where I was going

The sky is secret[150] or mysterious because although it cannot be defined – definitions are continually arising from it as the clouds arise from the sky.