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Astrology

7/31/2010     Saturday

You wake up happy and with a plan!  You were thinking in your sleep, and the result is good.  Talk things over with your inner circle, and with the boss, and you will feel stable.  Energetic action, initiating new activity and moving forward stabilize the situation.  Money or good luck come from activity, so [...]

The Heart of Experience is the Guru

The Heart of Experience is the Guru

An excerpt from the Mindfulness workshop given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in 1999

For many of you, I know that when we first started this temple it was family style, and you thought of yourselves as children, and I thought of myself as your mother in many ways, and there was a spiritual family dynamic.  We [...]

Astrology

7/30/2010     Friday

Take it easy early today and enjoy the lull because a storm is about to hit.  Choppy seas ahead!  Things loll along and then suddenly all heliotrope breaks loose! Hold your ground.  Keep your head.  Careful analysis that leads to action is good.  You will be tempted to react strongly if a mistake has [...]

Advice for the Path

HH Penor Rinpoche & HH Karma Kuchen Rinpoche

HH Penor Rinpoche & HH Karma Kuchen Rinpoche

The very best way to announce that you are an ordinary deluded sentient being is to claim yourself Enlightened.

The best way to announce you are needy with an ego to match is to INSIST you are enlightened.

The very best way to let everyone know you are truly a fool is to shout out everywhere that you are enlightened.

The very best way to warn everyone you are an egomaniac and dangerous is to claim enlightenment and that you can “give” it to others.

The #1 way to announce your ignorance of spiritual matters is to be hateful and vengeful.

The very best way to let everyone know you are not acquainted with Compassion is to gossip and slander.

The best way to express good qualities and show your stuff is to shut your pie-hole and benefit beings. Make the world better.

The best way to live a decent wholesome life is to get off your butt and actually DO IT!

The best way to offer Spiritual Leadership is to walk your talk and know it isn’t about you.

The best way to bring beings to the Path is to practice it, accomplish it, BE IT in every area of your life.

If you meet someone who proclaims HIMSELF accomplished and ENLIGHTENED the best thing to do is let him be.

If you meet a teacher who makes no claim for themselves, but allows others to speak; and their LIFE and Works are sublime- call them GURU!

If that Teacher promises hard work, change, method, empowerment, a Lineage of Purity to depend on- FOLLOW to the ends of the earth!

If you are on the path and are practicing daily and well under the guidance of a qualified Guru, please rejoice! Be happy!

Each day new and better causes and conditions will appear to enhance your progress.

If you walk the Path of Dharma guided by a pure Guru you have already attained the nectar of this human rebirth.

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