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, [...]
Category: Astrology
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[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.]
Of all worldly phenomena, whether great or small, nothing is permanent and nothing endures. Therefore, when you find yourself [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series
There are many Dharma practitioners who practice for many years, go on retreat, and even take ordination. Then at some point, some karmic switch flips in their minds and suddenly they’re finished with Dharma! They don’t want to do [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series
I would like to talk about a subject that is of the utmost importance to everyone. The subject is compassion.
You may think, “Oh, I know all about compassion. I’ve been a Dharma practitioner for a long time. I’ve [...]
The Eight Auspicious Symbols represent the Eight Qualities of the Buddha. Here is a brief explanation of how each quality is symbolized.
Excellent Lotus Flower:
The purity of the Buddha’s mind
Golden Wheel of the Dharma
The Buddha’s unending activity of training beings in the path of liberation
Great Victory Banner [...]
A teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Try to believe in the Love….that the Love that exists is
Absolute. It never varies, it is unchanging. You did nothing
to deserve it and you cannot destroy it. It is your belief in the
Love, your acceptance of it, this [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series
Somehow you have found yourself in this fortunate, amazing position where this feast of possibility is laid before you. How did you come to this point? How is it possible that you have this option? You must have done [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series
You may ask, “Why do I have to think about suffering? Why is it that the Buddha talks about suffering and nobody else does? Why is it that today’s New Age thinkers are saying, ‘I want to be me. [...]
An excerpt from the Vow of Love Series by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
In a superficial way the idea of compassion can seem very simple, and we might make the mistake of thinking that we understand it. But if we study compassion deeply, eventually we will come to understand that the ultimate view of compassion [...]
Green Tara
From The Spiritual Path: a Collection of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
How do you cultivate compassion? The first step is to open your eyes and look at the nature of suffering. In our culture, we keep ourselves removed from this. The deformed, severely handicapped, or terminally ill are often hidden from [...]
The Stanzas of Offering Water from the Pure Vision, An Ocean of Blessings
By His Holiness Dudjom Lingpa
HUNG YAN LAG GYED DAN DUD TSI DZING BU DI
HUNG Offering a lake of nectar possessing the eight qualities of pure water
CHOM DAN KHOR DANG CHE LA BUL WAR GYI
To all the Buddhas [...]
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