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AstrologyCongratulations, your emotions are stable and you are able to wait out a slow-moving situation. This is a great time to engage in renovation and beautification projects. Spiff things up! Material objects are excellent, and encouragement comes from things you can see and touch. Good shopping! Medical issues are well resolved, and work is motoring [...]  The First Object of RefugeThe following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Essence of Devotion” Although the Buddha that we remember as Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni is not present in his physical body as we understand it right now, we look at the Lama as the embodiment of the qualities, intentions, compassion and [...] AstrologyAn important message, letter or communication happens today. It’s most crucial to speak in a kind, diplomatic manner. Angry or demanding speech harms your cause and you will be ignored, or worse. The urge to “tell people off” is strong today, as is the wish to push others who aren’t responding the way you would [...]  Right SpeechAn excerpt from a teaching called The Eightfold Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Right speech is the first principal of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path. And on the Eightfold Path is really based on ethical conduct. It’s one of the things that I like best about Buddhism. It isn’t based on a pie-in-the-sky [...] |
From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Whoever believes that one’s actions do not create specific cause and result, has an atheistic, nihilistic view. At death rebirth will be taken in the lowest hell realm. Such a view is destructive towards oneself and is harmful to others. It is never the case [...] I agree wholeheartedly with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa when he says it is most important to keep one’s samaya with the root Guru. I was once told a story where a dedicated and educated practitioner emerged after several years of retreat and went to his Lineage Master to complain of his lack of [...] I hope you all will forgive me if I am not on top of my game. Recently I have had a lot of hate and lies thrown at me. I am hurting, which should make them happy and gleeful, drunk with it. My old nemesis is now making the balls and his new friend [...] It is gorgeous today! Breezy, cool in shade, mostly sunny. A day to be in love with! Our neighbor came up and told us weird news. Two of their beef calves were killed in the field last night. They were nearly 300lbs each. What could have done that? Bear? Big Cat? I wonder about [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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? [...] 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 [...] |
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