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Astrology

The best idea ever pops up today.  It provides a brand new direction that will succeed. Take it! This is harder to do than it sounds.  A critical energy that wants all the facts and details also is here. Avoid the tendency to pick apart the things that come your way, it will undercut your [...]

Understanding Duality

Understanding Duality

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Art of Dispelling Anger”

So what happens in the awakening? Well, we’ve worked with our poisons sufficiently. We have some inner knowledge and honesty. We’ve worked some method and now we’re accomplishing view. That’s where we really start to get cooking [...]

Astrology

A conflict appears between pride and finances today.  You want to look good but you’re spending too much money, or else a project is too expensive.  Scale down!  On the mental front an idea, book or conversation is successful.  The more talk today, the better.  The media and the news are favorable, and short trips [...]

Astrology

Love and drama characterize today.  Dress up – how you look means everything.  A sudden relationship forms that’s a winner.  Someone with novel ideas gains acceptance after a long time of going it alone.  Children, sports and entertainment bring a sense of release from pressure.  Go out and enjoy yourself!   New people and new ideas [...]

Pure Offerings

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 [...]

How to Make Offerings

Meaning and Purpose

The basis for offering is the practice of “Generosity.”  Generosity helps us to be less self-cherishing and thereby more loving to others.  In the Buddhist tradition one makes offerings to the Three Precious Jewels, which are the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, and the Lama who embodies all three.  Offerings [...]

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