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An Attitude of Gratitude Opens All Doors

The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:

Using the attitude of gratitude we can make the best use of our precious human rebirth – which goes by faster than we could ever imagine. OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA SIDDHI HUNG.

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Spiritually Alive

Spiritually Alive

An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Coming Alive

In your practice and in your mind and in your heart, keep yourself innocent and keep yourself alive.  If you think that spiritually you know everything, enough to tell others, then believe me, you know nothing.  Refresh yourself and practice as though [...]

Astrology

Everything seems hidden today, or else you want to hide out and avoid the world.  You need privacy, time to work things out on your own.  A bill is coming due, and you would love to duck it but you can’t.  Debts are on your mind as well as how to allocate resources.  A partnership [...]

Refuge and Bodhicitta

Refuge and Bodhicitta

The following is respectfully quoted from the Namcho Daily Practice book published by Palyul Ling International:

OM AH HUNG

KHA NYAM SI ZHI KYAB KUN NYING PO CHU Of all the refuges in samsara and nirvana present throughout space, the quintessence

WANG DRAG RIG DZIN PEMA TO TRENG SAL Is the powerful and wrathful [...]

Choosing Your Guide

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

Buddhism doesn’t need you, you need Buddhism. Lama doesn’t need you, you need Lama. There are many more students than teachers.

To climb Mt. Everest one needs a Sherpa (guide) to show the way. A map or book is useless. You can [...]

Holiness Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche Passed into Parinirvana

Holiness Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche passed into parinirvana this morning. Please visit the following link to see his final instructions to his students: 

 

http://www.vajrayana.org/tnr.html 

 

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Guru Yoga Series

Eight-Week Guru Yoga Series Starts on Friday, March 11, at 7 p.m.

At the request of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, KPC Spiritual Director, KPC will be offering an eight-week class on Guru Yoga.  Guru Yoga is the heart of Vajrayana Buddhist practice: becoming non-dual with the Mind of the Guru is to become non-dual with the Mind of [...]

Offering Mudra

ARGHAM PADYAM PUPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDE NEWIDYA SHAPDA PRATITSA YE SWAHA

Water for drinking and for bathing, flowers, incense, scented water, celestial food and sound are all offered.

Lama Pema Rangdol, head umdze at a Palyul Monastery for many years and now living in NYC, visited KPC Maryland to instruct students in the Rigzin [...]

Terton Ratna Lingpa

Langdro Lotsawa returned to Trushul in Lhodrak, You revealed the profound treasury of the four Kharchu Communions Amongst your twenty-five treasures, your activity touching us all: Homage to Chogyel Ratna Lingpa.

Ratna Lingpa 1403-1478/79. A reincarnation of Könchok Jungney of Langdro, he was born August 2nd 1403 to Dode Tar and his [...]

A Toolkit for the New Buddhist Practitioner

The following is a collection of resources for all those who are new to Buddhist practice

The Basics

Back to Basics

Why I Chose Buddhism

To Be a Practitioner

I WON!  A Precious Human Rebirth!

Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand

Faults of Cyclic Existence

The Six Realms of Cyclic Existence

The Origin [...]

How to Make an Altar

Learn how to make your own Buddhist altar.  Special thanks to Ananda Robie for the production of this video.