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AstrologyYour 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 [...] Relying on the Lineage and the Guru: Full Length Video TeachingThe 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. © copyright Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo All rights reserved. [...]  Identifying What is ImportantThe 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 [...] AstrologyYou 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, [...] |
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 [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series Where does desire come from? It comes from the belief that self-nature is real. According to the Buddha, if you believe that you are a self, if you believe in self-nature as being real, as being truly existent, then [...] HE Mugsang Kuchen Rinpoche An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series How can you develop the kind of love that sustains itself? How can you cultivate compassion like a fire that never runs out of wood to burn? That never goes out. The fire of compassion [...] 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 a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series If you’ve never practiced the Buddhadharma before, or if you’re interested in practicing, or if you have practiced some general meditation and you feel it’s time to move on to a path that is more stable or well known, [...] 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 [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series It’s almost impossible to attain the goal of selfless compassion, where you commit every fiber of your being to benefiting all sentient beings, seen and unseen, without a moment’s hesitation. It’s almost impossible to develop the kind of compassion [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series You cannot be a ‘sugar daddy’ in this world; there are no ‘sugar daddies’ in this world. You cannot be the conqueror or the savior as you cannot conquer someone else’s mind. Each person has to relieve themselves of [...] |
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