- Approaching Aro
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Approach
- Buddhism, Dzogchen, and Aro
- Truth and methods
- Principles and functions
- Visionary truth, objective truth
- The futile quest for certainty
- Yanas, contradictions, and understanding
- Essential Buddhism
- Uncontroversial Buddhist lineages
- Buddhism and football
- Yana shock
- Wrathful practice
- Why Dzogchen?
- The scarcity of Dzogchen
- Dzogchen: a controversial yana
- No holiness—vastness!
- No cosmic justice
- Yana slip
- Aro teachings
- Approaching teachers
- Special, ordinary, noble
- We matter to Buddhism
- Terma
- Aro history
- Ngak’chang Rinpoche
- Statements of support
- Lama Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche’s Proclamation
- Lama Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche’s Foreword
- Kyabjé Chhi-’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche’s Foreword
- Letter from Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche
- Letter about a student
- Doctoral recommendation
- Long-life prayer by Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche
- Long-life prayer by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
- Gyaltsen Rinpoche’s Introduction
- Kyabjé Dung-sé Thinley Norbu Rinpoche’s Colophon
- Books

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Hello David, I'm curious, do
13 Jun 2010
Hello David,
I'm curious, do you have an agent for your novel or do you plan to publish it yourself?
Sneaky plan
13 Jun 2010
Hello Tromtsal,
Actually I am not planning to publish it other than on the web. The novel has several purposes, but the most important one is to interest people in the other things I write (on the web). I hope the novel is also entertaining, and perhaps some readers will learn something. But mostly it is a sneaky plan to trick people into reading a boring philosophy site (Meaningness). Possibly if the web version gets to be wildly popular it might be worth publishing a paper version, on Lulu or something, for people who don't like reading on screens. I don't know; I kind of think paper books are obsolete, but maybe that's wrong.
Cheers,
David
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