- 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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The Glory of Insignificance
10 Jan 2011
Again, a post on this site that I can understand at a very intuitive level. It is refreshing to hear it put so well. If you get a chance, see if my short post here entitled "The Glory of Insignificance" and tell me if it is similar to what you are speaking of here or if you mean something different. This insight, of course, is certainly not the domain of only Buddhists -- as I am sure you agree.
The glory of insignificance
10 Jan 2011
Yes, I've had the experience you describe in that piece. Yes, I think it can be an experience of losing the sense of being either special or ordinary. When that happens, natural compassion arises; and that is a manifestation of nobility.
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