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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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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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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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An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series
Now, I’m a red-blooded American. You can’t get any more American than born in Brooklyn to an Italian father and a Jewish mother. That’s as American as they come in this world. So I understand our culture. I don’t claim to have any [...]
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series
For Westerners, one of the basic teachings of the Buddha, that all sentient beings are suffering, is very difficult to understand. Our culture doesn’t buy the idea of suffering. Most of us seem to have everything, or if we don’t have everything we [...]
For some remarkable pictures of the earthquake damage in Yushu and recovery efforts, go to http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/yushu_earthquake_12_days_later.html.
Caution: some very graphic content. Also, be sure to read the comments.
To get some idea of the situation in Yushu County, Tibetans make up 97.25% of the population while Han Chinese only 2.56%. Other nationalities only make up less [...]
The Khenpo brothers, Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, old friends of KPC, have organized a relief fund to aid victims of the earthquake in Qinghai Province.
Donation page is at http://www.padmasambhava.org/misc/kyegu.html or mail donations directly to:
Padma Samye Ling
ATTN: Kyegu Earthquake Relief Fund
618 Buddha Highway
Sidney Center, NY 13839
from the LA Times, [...]
Information compiled by Thubten Palzang:
WHILE OLD TENSIONS SURFACE
Some relief supplies have begun to arrive in the earthquake-stricken areas of Yushu County, Qinhai Province, China (Tibet). The first truck along with a group of volunteers from the Tibetan Village Project (TVP) arrived in Yushu on April 17. The TVP has set up a website for [...]
Before and After Image of Jyekundo City
Article compiled by Thubten Palzang:
The severe earthquake that struck Yushu County in Northeast Kham (now China) on April 14, 2010, destroyed or severely damaged towns and monasteries in the area. Jyekundo Dondrubling Monastery, located in Jyekundo City near the epicenter, was severely damaged. [...]
From the Palyul.org website:
“His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche and all Palyul tulkus, khenpos, lamas, nuns, and students offer their strong heart-felt prayers for the victims of the recent earthquake.
This quake occurred in North Eastern Kham in an area historically called Gapa (once known as the Nangchen Kingdom). The Chinese name for the area [...]
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