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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 [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “How Buddhists Think” When the Buddha was asked what kind of being he was, he described himself neither as a god nor as someone who has attained godhood, but simply as “awake.” He was awake to the primordial Wisdom Nature, which is free from [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “How Buddhists Think” The Buddha’s next teaching is that there exists a cessation of suffering, which is the same as the cessation of desire. This cessation is called Enlightenment, and it is the only true cessation of suffering. In a very poor society, people [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “How Buddhists Think” The first step in achieving the cessation of suffering as prescribed by the Buddha is to understand samsara, or cyclic existence. This tends to be difficult for Westerners. They often come to the path assuming that it’s all about “love and [...] By Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo An excerpt from a teaching called “How Buddhists Think” Some years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama took part in an interfaith discussion at a cathedral in Washington, D.C. The Episcopalian ministers and Catholic priests repeatedly stressed the sameness at the core of all religions. His Holiness stood up and [...] An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhists Think by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo According to the Buddha, all that you perceive through your five senses, all your feelings, all the thoughts you take pride in, are based on delusion. Essentially, this experience, this game, this scam, is a puff ball. In fixation, we do [...] An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhists Think by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo As Buddhists, we are not as infatuated with the idea of gods and goddesses as people in some other religions. Why not? Because we think of them as part of cyclic existence. Long-life gods can grant blessings. But can they get [...] 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? [...] An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhists Think by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo When you hear unfamiliar Buddhist ideas, don’t get tightly wrapped up and constipated about them. You’ve been going in a different direction for lo, these many aeons. Just relax, be okay. You have that choice. You can hear the teachings. You [...] |
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