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By Norma on July 31, 2010

7/31/2010 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 [...]

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The Heart of Experience is the Guru

The Heart of Experience is the Guru

By Jetsunma on July 30, 2010

An 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 [...]

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Astrology

By Norma on July 30, 2010

7/30/2010 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 [...]

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You are Alive

An excerpt from Marrying Spiritual Life with Western Culture by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

If you have a real relationship with your own nature and you really understood the wisdom and the beauty of the Buddha’s teaching and didn’t see it as his teaching, but as a wisdom that appeared in the world here. You could see it [...]

Spiritual Nature

Buddha with Blue Lotuses Paul Heussenstamm

An excerpt from Marrying Spiritual Life with Western Culture by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

How to understand that your faith is alive? Try being alive in your faith. The ball’s in your court, and you’re not going to get away from that. You cannot change the religion and think that it’s going [...]

Living the Path

An excerpt from Marrying Spiritual Life with Western Culture by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

It’s interesting to realize that when we come to the temple, we’re already interested in Dharma. Why are we interested in Dharma? There are lots of different reasons. We like the look of it: it’s interesting and exotic. The statues are really cool. [...]

For Their Sake

An excerpt from Marrying Spiritual Life with Western Culture by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

We are told that in order to be a good person you have to do a certain amount of church-going. That church-going idea is deadly. It’s really the antithesis of a spiritual path, and I find that here as well. Our Sangha also [...]

OMG! My Kid is a Mystic!

An excerpt from Marrying Spiritual Life with Western Culture by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

As many of you know, I like to climb the same mountain that you like to climb – the mountain of wisdom or understanding – so that we can get to the top and really have the full vista of understanding. I find [...]

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