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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 [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching called Intimacy with the Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo I’ll tell you something about myself which may sound odd, being as I’m sitting on this throne in the middle of this Buddhist mandala here. I’m not a religious person. I do not like spiritual dogma! I do not like [...] The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: More of my healing lanai, and it feels like heaven! Prayer flags are so inspiring. Here is the beginning of a crystal garden.
The crystals and flags are wonderful. When wind blows prayers are whispered. This time of evening the birds sing [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Intimacy with the Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo What if it were possible to live in such a sacred way that instead of thinking of ourselves as separate human beings who want to go there and get that, we were able to see everything in the world around [...] The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Last night we made a special room, a healing prayer room with tons of prayer flags: The room will be finished but able to open completely in good weather- it’s called a Lanai. So peaceful! It’s like living in a prayer… [...] The following is a photo of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche offering Empowerment to Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
An excerpt from a teaching called Intimacy with the Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo For those of us practicing the Buddha Dharma, there is the tendency to act and practice like new practitioners. When I say new practitioners, I don’t mean practitioners that have been practicing for only a week or six months or [...] The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Wasn’t feeling well last evening, so students lined the driveway reciting 7-Line Prayer: Here’s another photo of students calling: Despite the pain in my back, couldn’t resist the student’s call. Here they are lining the driveway waiting: Though I couldn’t [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Intimacy with the Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo The path of Buddhadharma can only bring about the result that is consistent with and the same as, the seed or its essence. We’re looking at essence, we’re looking at movement and we’re looking at result. Try to imagine how [...] The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Today I thought to share with you the Prayer Wheels of KPC. Having seen them in India I fell in love with Stupas and Prayer Wheels and determined to contact a Lama who is a specialist in the necessary steps. My students became well trained in [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Intimacy with the Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo When we think of the path, we think of something that is external, separate from us, something in front of us that we have to move towards or attain. A different understanding of the path might be that the path [...] |
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