Astrology7/31/2010 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 [...] 
The Heart of Experience is the GuruAn 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 [...] Astrology7/30/2010 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 [...] |
From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo It’s easy to hear Dharma, if you have the merit. It’s easy to keep a record of how many teachers we have sat in the presence of. It is much harder to change, to remain where we are and to deepen. It is harder still [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo from The Spiritual Path We never lose sight of how we feel. We are always monitoring ourselves. We want to feel free of suffering, free of stress. Sentient beings strive endlessly to be happy, so it is very difficult to achieve a sustained, sincere practice [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo from The Spiritual Path Sometimes the ordained have problems with desire. When you take on robes, it doesn’t mean that desire ceases. Why not make that desire meaningful? You can offer desire to the Three Precious Jewels. It’s not a big secret that you’re feeling [...] Yeshe Tsogyal From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo The Vajrayana path is a great gift. Your mind can be purified through the practice of allowing it to arise naturally with those qualities of perfect union and perfectly purified perception. “Well,” you may say. “That sounds good, but will it [...] Vajrasattva From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Let’s say you have become satisfied with an idea of what a practitioner should be. You are quiet, meek, gentle, and ever so passive. You attempt to be pure by never adorning your face, hair or body. You do what you think [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo You are able to practice because you had the karma to receive teachings. Merit has come to the surface of your mind; good karma is ripening. But linked with some of this ripening merit are some bubbles of not-so-good karma. So what happens? You [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Let’s say that your immediate family consists of four people, so you have a particular karma with three others. Those three all have both negative and positive karmic seeds coming to the surface, just as you do. When you four came together, you did [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo We tend to externalize our experiences: everything happens “to us.” We externalize all cause-and-effect relationships as somehow separate and distinct from our own minds. To some degree, we even externalize our thoughts and feelings as if they were solid things that can overpower us. [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo We must realize that any action we take—or even merely intend to take!—will play itself out in some way. We must understand that we create every single piece of our experience, every moment of our lives. If you kill someone, you will eventually be [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo No two people experience anything exactly alike, ever. It’s almost as if we see through different-colored glasses. Even the same person can experience the same event quite differently on different days. Something that bugs the potatoes out of you one day will roll right [...] |
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