Sublime

We do not have to say that we—as Vajrayanists—are free of the neurotic psychological pattern in which I desire you because you come from a similarly dysfunctional family background. We can accept that these patterns exist – but we do not have to ‘deal’ with them as if they had any bearing on the functioning of the Khandro Pawo Nyi-da Mélong Gyüd.

stick with our practice.

One cannot practise the Nyi-da Mélong on one’s own – a couple have to enter into the practice together and with equal commitment.

nihilism[14] – the dualistic misconception that nothing is meaningful.

Thubten Yeshe, The Bliss of Inner Fire,

Trungpa Rinpoche defined the cultivation of bodhicitta as ‘tickling the clitoris of the heart’.

It can be practised by regular practitioners—and to a certain degree by people who are not Buddhist—but this is not the audience to whom the Nyi-da Mélong is speaking.

We live at a time when spurious egalitarian imperatives

There are ‘natural sages’[129] who have discovered something quite close to the outer functional parameters of the Nyi-da Mélong – simply through being thoroughly good and decent people.