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Congratulations, your emotions are stable and you are able to wait out a slow-moving situation.  This is a great time to engage in renovation and beautification projects.  Spiff things up!  Material objects are excellent, and encouragement comes from things you can see and touch.  Good shopping! Medical issues are well resolved, and work is motoring [...]

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The First Object of Refuge

The First Object of Refuge

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Essence of Devotion”

Although the Buddha that we remember as Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni is not present in his physical body as we understand it right now, we look at the Lama as the embodiment of the qualities, intentions, compassion and [...]

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Astrology

An important message, letter or communication happens today.  It’s most crucial to speak in a kind, diplomatic manner.  Angry or demanding speech harms your cause and you will be ignored, or worse.  The urge to “tell people off” is strong today, as is the wish to push others who aren’t responding the way you would [...]

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Right Speech

Right Speech

An excerpt from a teaching called The Eightfold Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Right speech is the first principal of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path.  And on the Eightfold Path is really based on ethical conduct.  It’s one of the things that I like best about Buddhism.  It isn’t based on a pie-in-the-sky [...]

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How to Handle Crisis

From a series of tweets via @ahkonlhamo

This is a nightmare. Bella is critical. Beloved Tex is in endstage at hospice, and I’m flat out with a wrenched back. I hoped to see Tex and Marissa, but I can’t walk.

Trying to breathe, watching the mind process this. When there is so much sorrow and stress it is hard to see around, over or through phenomena.

Bella may not have long. Tex has two days or so. We are scrambling to pay large bills, and the hate I’ve had thrown at me, I must pull back, breathe. Relax mind.

Karma ripens much worse if mind’s upset. The root and display are not separate.  Rest the mind on AH, the point of arising and non-arising. Same. Nondual view.

Sometimes cause and result can be shifted, but not erased. We cannot be so compelled by appearance that we are powerless. We are primordial space.

For Tex, the karma is exhausted. For Bella, not so much, so prayer is essential. For Tex, he needs to be guided through the bardo. I prepare for that.

If I let myself stay in an emotional blender I will be no use. So I watch my mind, breathe for Bella, guide Tex to a good rebirth.  OM MANI PEDME HUNG

Today the skies do my crying, the wind does my sighing, yet even now gentle rains call forth new life from the very earth.

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7 comments to How to Handle Crisis

  • Leslie Austin

    Beloved Jetsunma,

    We pray for your peace of heart, health and well-being. We, too, have just had our beloved canine son, Mahamudra (a rescue from Vajrapani)pass over, and also our wonderful cat, Skye (a 9-11 ground zero rescue) only 10 weeks before Mahamudra. We are so sorry to hear about Bella, may she have a blessed afterlife and a greater reincarnation! We are doing our small bit to help KPC and pray all will be well.

    Om mane padme om!

    Blessings and love to you,

    Leslie Austin and Margaret Haas

  • Tenzin Wangmo

    I send all my love. May I take all your teachings fully into my heart.

  • kt

    Jetsunma, thank you for your loving guidance: perfect words from my Perfect Teacher! Love, KT

  • Sangye

    I pray that this teaching may never be far from my mind, and I dedicate merit to all beings so that they may hear it as well.

  • Tenzin Wangmo

    I pray for this nightmare to dissolve into emptiness. I confess all my wrongdoings. I am so sorry for the losses of your good friends. I pray for your long long life and wonderfully good health. May you return again and again and again for the sake of all beings.

    Thank you so much for the AH teaching. I have been practising it with Gulliver.

  • Wen

    I will pray for all sentient-beings who are suffering in this world, and will dedicate all my practice to them as well. May this saha world become a pure-land one day soon.

  • Thank you. May I follow your example.

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