Recent PostsBy Norma on February 7, 2012 Your thinking is powerful, and communication is great today. Someone comes along and gives you a whole different perspective. Integrate the new ideas into your game plan and you will move forward rapidly. Have fun! If you’re invited to be part of a creative venture, accept and play your part. Someone shines and a group [...]
Category: Astrology By Jetsunma on February 6, 2012 The following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Relationship with the Guru is the “rocketship of Vajrayana”. These teachers appear for only one reason – us. So, we can rely utterly on their blessing.
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Category: Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, Video  By Jetsunma on February 6, 2012
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Commitment to the Path:
These two particular teachings about the preciousness of this human rebirth and the impermanence of all things samsaric are supposed to make us see, recognize and call to mind and to be mindful of the difference between [...]
Category: Commitment to the Path SU2-39, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo By Norma on February 6, 2012 You get up on the wrong side of the bed today, unwilling to meet the day. A bad dream or trouble sleeping slows you down. Wait a bit and you will perk up, and when you do you have enough energy for a hundred people! Suddenly, you’re magnetic and feeling great! Enough of the moody, [...]
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Requesting the Buddhas & Bodhisattvas to Remain in the World
[Adapted from an oral commentary given by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in conjunction with a ceremony wherein he bestowed the bodhisattva vow upon a gathering of disciples at Namdroling in Bozeman, Montana, November 1999. ---Ed.]
This is important because in cyclic existence there are many ignorant beings that fail to recognize the precious noble qualities of the Buddhas. They don’t recognize the buddhas who are present here in the world, and so they fail to appreciate them; therefore, to benefit beings, the buddhas may go on to other realms where they will be recognized and appreciated. To ensure that the buddhas will remain in the world no matter what, we have to request them not to pass into nirvana. Requesting the buddhas and bodhisattvas to stay in the world is the antidote for having wrong view, such as thinking, “What’s so special about buddhas? Are they better than we are? We are equal to them and can certainly get by without them.”
From “THE PATH of the Bodhisattva: A Collection of the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva and Related Prayers” with a commentary by Kyabje Pema Norbu Rinpoche on the Prayer for Excellent Conduct
Compiled under the direction of Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche Vimala Publishing 2008
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