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The Potent Nectar of the Seven Line Prayer: Video

The following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on the Seven Line Prayer:

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Happy day!  Things you’ve worked for fall into place in the afternoon!  The morning involves indecision and emotional thinking.  Something keeps triggering emotional reactions, and you must keep yourself under control in your professional life.  The temptation to tell long, nostalgic stories to colleagues should be avoided.  Stick to the facts.  Separate mental matters from [...]

Start From the Beginning

Start From the Beginning

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Faults of Cyclic Existence”

Today then I will talk about something that is necessary as a foundational understanding in order to begin the Buddhist path. In order to understand what the Buddha is talking about, in order in fact to begin [...]

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A diplomatic issue arises and a partner may appear too.  You must take this person’s wishes into consideration, and here’s the rub.  The new person comes with new ideas, and you are happy with your own way of thinking.  Be aware that you may have become set in your ways and uninterested in changing to [...]

Phowa

OM AMI DEWA HRI

Throughout all lifetimes

Wherever I am born

May I obtain the qualities of birth in a higher realm

May I met Dharma swiftly after taking birth

And have the freedom to practice well

May I please Guru Rinpoche

And practice Dharma day and night

Understand Dharma, drink its pure nectar

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Song to Tara

Clear Mind Holy Mind The arguments we have used against you are like dust…

Against You? You, who flow silently… eternally in the well of our hearts. Have we robed you in filthy rags Hatred… greed… ignorance? You have remained steadfast, unchanging.

Today we lift you up to the lips and hearts of beings [...]

Renunciation: Poem by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The following is respectfully quoted from “Journey to Enlightenment” by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche:

Though you perfected the qualities of the three kayas, In order to liberate beings of the impure realms You manifested as a supreme renunciate; Lord Pema Vijaya, I miss you from the depth of my heart.

The feeling that [...]

Samantabhadra Sings: From “The Magic Dance” by Thinley Norbu

The following is respectfully quoted from “The Magic Dance” by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche:

This is why Samantabhadra sings: Oh wonderful Dharma, the exquisite secret essence of all perfect Buddhas, All born from unborn, and in being born there is no more born.

Oh wonderful Dharma, the exquisite secret essence of all perfect Buddhas, All [...]

My Best Wisdom Teacher: from “The Magic Dance” by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche

The following is respectfully quoted from “The Magic Dance” by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche: I bow to my own Wisdom Mind, which is my best wisdom teacher, the source of all visible and invisible qualities. Sentient beings are always in time and place. If sentient beings are in time, my wisdom teacher dances magically in [...]

Vajra Kiss

Good night, sweet dreams!

May Dakinis hold your hearts and grant theirbliss!

The Vajrakiss.

Can you drink the poison too? I know you do!

You might as well agree to this: That you would sell your soul for bliss.

Even I can answer this; There is no soul, there is no goal.

Even bliss is [...]

Cosmic Lover

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

Eyes gaze, mind clear, nothing is seen. He is beautiful, the Guru. In the space between molecules non existent he appears, I feel Him. His regal stance, His tenderness, the gentle King of all Dharma, The second one comes in image – [...]

Cry!

In our divided

clinging consciousness

In our ego-centered

dreaming

we are bound.

Flung

Unaided, unable

to distinguish

The nature that is peace.

Drunken

Imagining distinction

in the nature that

is form and formless

Grieving

for we have seen

the difference

Between the crystal and the nectar

that fills it

with its emptiness

Oh..

If [...]

Today

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

We are women We are delicate and fragile And inconceivably strong Worlds are born from us We are sacred We are the oceans of the Earth Seducing and touching the sand This is our time

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In a Dream

In a dream I remember that I forgot what I remembered

I knew that I knew it was a dream.

I know I can stand still, in full presence and awaken

How odd that our uncontrived Primordial Nature dances with SO MANY mirrors, all sizes and shapes.

Splendid and devastating!

OM MANI PEDME HUNG

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