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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, [...] |
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 [...]
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 [...] 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 [...] Thousand Arm Avalokiteshvara Mandala From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo All Dharma, your practice, your teachers, and everything you have ever encountered that has brought you closer to enlightenment—is only one thing: a manifestation or an emanation of the enlightened, compassionate intention of the Buddha. That is why [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo As human beings, we avoid looking deeply at our ingrained habits and beliefs. We avoid testing them for the qualities needed to develop properly on the Vajrayana path. It’s easier to “go with the flow.” We dislike challenging ourselves. Most of all, [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] Guru Rinpoche Rainbow Body From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo It is not enough to visualize the form of a teacher or lama, thinking that you see only a man or a woman. Such a shallow perception does not put you in touch with what is truly happening. [...] Ven Gyaltrul Rinpoche From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Teacher is the cornerstone of all practice. The Teacher is everything—the underlying strength and the means by which transmission and understanding occur. Let us compare the Teacher’s function with the function of various [...]
From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Students who are flirting with, considering, or entering the path may become confused by the term “pure view.” Why? Because they register the ordinary meaning of these words, unaware that they will understand more later. If at this [...] |
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