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AstrologyCongratulations, your emotions are stable and you are able to wait out a slow-moving situation. This is a great time to engage in renovation and beautification projects. Spiff things up! Material objects are excellent, and encouragement comes from things you can see and touch. Good shopping! Medical issues are well resolved, and work is motoring [...]  The First Object of RefugeThe following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Essence of Devotion” Although the Buddha that we remember as Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni is not present in his physical body as we understand it right now, we look at the Lama as the embodiment of the qualities, intentions, compassion and [...] AstrologyAn important message, letter or communication happens today. It’s most crucial to speak in a kind, diplomatic manner. Angry or demanding speech harms your cause and you will be ignored, or worse. The urge to “tell people off” is strong today, as is the wish to push others who aren’t responding the way you would [...]  Right SpeechAn excerpt from a teaching called The Eightfold Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Right speech is the first principal of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path. And on the Eightfold Path is really based on ethical conduct. It’s one of the things that I like best about Buddhism. It isn’t based on a pie-in-the-sky [...] |
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 [...] His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at KPC-MD “As human beings who live for about 80yrs, we have been sleeping for about 40 of those years. Of the 40 years awake we spend most time on worldly activity where we accumulate the five poisons of the afflicted mind. There are very few [...] Why do people “like” to hate? What is the engine, the mechanism that drives hate? I think it is fear. Fear of loss; mostly fear of failure. Most haters are terrified to let go of their rage. They think without it they will lose all: or cease to be. Could not be more wrong! [...] A YouTube Video Teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Ani Kunzang with Rosie from Taras Babies Animal Rescue From a series of tweets by @ahkonlhamo: I am now a #Vegan, but how can I rejoice when animals are still slaughtered and tortured for their flesh and skin every day? I #rescue animals, but how can I be happy when [...] A red Cardinal sits on a snowy Pine bough, all fluffed up, right outside my window, looking in. Bet he’s cold. When I see nature in it beauty and suffering, I think of the Bodhicitta. How pith. How essential. There is no Enlightenment without it. Often we see Dharma students discuss, pontificate, and indulge in [...] Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Long Life Prayer for Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo ZHI YING TRÖ DREL GYUR MED DORJE AH The Vajra AH is the unchanging foundational sphere, free from contrivance.
ZHI NANG GAG MED KÖN CHOG TSA SUM DANG The unobstructed appearance [...] |
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