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AstrologySynchronicity! Things you have worked for and planned for and hoped for fall into place! It seems as though an unseen hand is guiding everything to effortlessly work out. All the lights are green, the teller window opens for you, and you hold the winning lottery ticket. The person you think of telephones! If you [...]  Terton Migyur Dorje: The Origin of Nam Chö by HH Penor RinpocheThe following is an excerpt from a teaching offering by Kyabje His Holiness Pema Norbu Rinpoche at Palyul Ling in New York: First examine your mind and try to get rid of any afflictive emotions or negative thoughts. Try to give rise to devotion, faith, inclination, and in that way, carry through the Guru [...] AstrologyA serious decision appears today, and you must face something you’d swept under the rug. It’s baaack! Edward R. Murrow said, “Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.” Be absolutely realistic about what you need to do. Take action and things go [...] The Potent Nectar of the Seven Line Prayer: VideoThe following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on the Seven Line Prayer: Video streaming by Ustream Copyright © Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo All rights reserved [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity When we practice Guru Yoga, we actually begin to develop the view that the lama is the source of liberation. We begin to understand using traditional, prescribed images. For instance, we are taught that we should think of samsara as [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity The result of poverty and not having enough is due, according to the Buddha’s teachings, to not having been particularly generous or forthcoming in our support or caring for others in the past, perhaps even before this lifetime. So we [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity Many people experience fear. Confidence in your practice and confidence in your prayers to the guru, these things relax the mind and subdue fears. So my suggestion is to practice in that way and to begin to cultivate the kind [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity Ours is not a religion that believes you can get through a room full of obstacles—which life basically is—without turning on the lights and seeing where the things are that you might trip over. Our religion is one where we [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity There is happiness in watching one’s mind change from that which was tightly constricted, self-absorbed and contracted into that which is spacious, lifted, calm, receptive, generous, and has a strong degree of clarity! Watching oneself grow in that way, haven’t [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity How many times have we seen people expect love, kindness, support, financial prosperity, happiness to be their birthright, to be just given to them, that the world owes them a living? You should give this to me. Well, but you [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity We try very hard as practitioners to practice Guru Yoga clearly and purely, the practice of fervent regard toward the Guru, utilizing the Guru as a tool of benefit in one’s life. One thing that we should be perfectly clear [...] |
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