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 Heart Nectar of the Saints: His Holiness Dudjom RinpocheThe following is respectfully taken from “The Lamp of Liberation: A Collection of of Prayers, Advice and Aspirations” Heart Nectar of the Saints: A Prayer of Aspiration That Condenses the Essence of the Oral Teachings: by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Sole unfailing and unchanging Refuge, Lord of the Mandala, Most [...]  Faults of Cyclic Existence[Adapted from an oral commentary given by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in conjunction with a ceremony wherein he bestowed the bodhisattva vow upon a gathering of disciples at Namdroling in Bozeman, Montana, November 1999. ---Ed.] Of all worldly phenomena, whether great or small, nothing is permanent and nothing endures. Therefore, when you find yourself [...] Only You Can Awaken Bodhicitta Within: Full Length Video TeachingThe following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in Sedona Arizona: Shown 9/20/09. Given just after the 9/11 tragedy, Jetsunma encourages us to look within and reinvigorate our practice within. She also explains the imbalance at this time between the male and female. As women are defiled, so Tara [...] AstrologyAn emotional situation or a family matter captures your attention today. You are pulled away from outside matters, and you must deal with an internal situation. A powerful force opposes this and tries to force you outward. Do your best to balance both sides, giving each its due. An act of generosity can mediate between [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series One of the problems that we Westerners have is that we’ve grown up with religions that say God is external. That is not what the Buddha teaches. The Buddha teaches us not that our supreme object of refuge is an external [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series I wish from my heart that it would be okay to be a renunciate. Because to be a renunciate is to renounce the things that one has desire for, the objects that one grasps, and instead seek only a true source [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series The idea of renunciation is not popular in our country because we don’t understand it. In America we believe in accumulation; that’s our source of refuge: we accumulate. The minute we have that coffee pot and that microwave and that big- [...] 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 [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series In the West we have a certain context through which we understand. There’s a certain karmic format that we all participate in; our thoughts are shaped a certain way. When we are children and form our ideas we all receive, individually [...] |
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