Changing Habits
An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhism Differs from Other Religions by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Many people have gone to teachers and said, “What was I in my past life? What kind of being am I?” thinking that they are different somehow and that this is important. It’s really not the case. We [...] Astrology MondaySpeak to a higher up, appeal again for your cause, and things go well. You continue tending to details and fixing and refining things you did before, but this is exactly 
Creating Happiness
An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhism Differs from Other Religions by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo If all we want is happiness, how do we do it? It’s a little, but there’s a real trick to it, but you can create happiness. Here’s how it’s done. First of all, all sentient beings are equal. [...] |
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 God, but [...] 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 of refuge. [...] 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- screen TV [...] 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 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 and collectively, [...] |
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