Astrology7/31/2010 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 GuruAn 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 [...] Astrology7/30/2010 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 [...] |
An excerpt from the Mindfulness workshop given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in 1999 I’d like to talk about mindfulness in practice of making offerings. As you know, when you do your preliminary practice of Ngondro, at some point you accumulate 100,000 repetitions of mandala offerings. That’s a fairly elaborate practice where you sit down and you [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Compassion, Love, & Wisdom by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo It is difficult to see the many different spiritual systems prevalent in our country that are based on the accumulation of knowledge. The thought is that at some point you will have enough knowledge, as if you can get a big bag [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Compassion, Love, & Wisdom by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo According to the Buddha we continue in cyclic existence and suffer as we do because of desire, and that desire is born of the belief in self-nature as being inherently real. Therefore the cessation of desire, in all its forms, is synonymous [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Compassion, Love, & Wisdom by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo We are going to talk about something that is very core to the Buddha’s teaching and that you will hear about again and again as you continue to practice on the Buddha’s path. This subject is compassion. It is about love and [...] An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhists Think by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Have you ever seen someone made completely miserable by neediness? Some people are like a big gaping hole, and all the love you could pour in there would not be enough. Haven’t you ever gone through a phase like that yourself? We’ve all [...] That which arises from the Body, Speech and Mind of the Buddhas cannot be treated like ordinary possessions. They are extraordinary. That which we ourselves have set aside to honor the Body, Speech, and Mind of the Buddhas cannot be used in ordinary ways. That which has been honorably, nobly offered to the Buddhas cannot be taken [...] Ogyen Tendzin Jigme Lhundrup, with his teacher. He is considered to be the reincarnation of H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series The precepts that the Buddha laid down are real and workable for everyone. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to hold [...] Guru Rinpoche Here are some online practice supports for Dharma students @ahkonlhamo – Musings and tweachings by Jetsunma @kunzangpalyul – Kunzang Palyul Choling updates on practices, events, and other news @palyulmedia – Updates about webcast teachings and teachings available at palyulproductions.org @kpcstore – updates on new Dharma product arrivals at [...] The following are the principal days in the Tibetan Lunar Calendar and the practices associated with those days: 8th Day - Medicine Buddha Practice 1st Qtr moon - White Tara Practice 10th Day - Guru Rinpoche Day / Shower of Blessings Tsog 15th Day - Amitabha Practice Full Moon - Practitioner renews their vows and precepts. A time to reaffirm and make confession. So Jong [...] |
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