Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice or a slab of butter left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation. Let peace work on you and enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of Calm Abiding, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of Clear Seeing. And you will find all your negativity disarmed, your aggression dissolved, and your confusion evaporating slowly like mist into the vast and stainless sky of your absolute nature.

In 1987 Rinpoche was invited to become spiritual director of the centre in County Cork in the west of Ireland which was to become Dzogchen Beara Rigpa’s first long-term retreat facility. ris med) movement which rose to prominence in eastern Tibet in the nineteenth century he frequently refers to teachings of all Tibetan traditions and also quotes from non-Tibetan sources such as the Dhammapada and teachers belonging to other traditions such as the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki. Rinpoche attended a Catholic school in Kalimpong and then university in Delhi before coming to the west.

He has been teaching for over 30 years and continues to travel widely in Europe America Australia and Asia. Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan: བསོད་རྒྱལ་ Wylie: Bsod-rgyal) (born 1947) is a Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition. Significant controversy due to claims of student abuse have been prominent for much of his career.