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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 [...] |
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on the first Guru Rinpoche Day of 2012: Interesting isn’t it, how we tend to think only of ourselves, and not even realize it? When His Holiness Penor Rinpoche passed to his Parinirvana I thought I’d never recover. But of course this [...] The following is a YouTube video prepared by a student of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: © Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo all rights reserved. The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Using the example of Mandarava whose love for her Guru and the path was so strong that even a rock could not hold her from that – Jetsunma talks about the western belief that we should [...] Ven Gyaltrul Rinpoche From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Teacher is the cornerstone of all practice. The Teacher is everything—the underlying strength and the means by which transmission and understanding occur. Let us compare the Teacher’s function with the function of various [...] The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Neurotic Interaction to Guru Yoga” If we rely purely on an emotional level, not much will come of the path. If we do not challenge ourselves to truly understand all of the thoughts that turn the mind (and you’ve been taught [...] The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Neurotic Interaction to Guru Yoga” Responsibility begins with recognition. Simply that. Recognition. There are some fundamental truths that must be recognized here in order to stop the game of projecting your own neuroses onto yet another external object. Because that is [...] The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: In Vajrayana, Guru Yoga is a preliminary stage practice from Ngondro. And without it there will be little benefit in later practice, as we depend on a pure transmission from a Lama with good qualities, without delusion, having wisdom. We must mix our minds [...] The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Living a Sacred Life”
Jetsunma talks about how to “marry” one’s practice. How to live a life inseparable from the path. Copyright © Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo. All rights reserved
[...] The following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo given at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Copyright © Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo. All rights reserved The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Always walk in the footsteps of Lord Buddha, Guru Padmasambhava. And of course, never break root samaya with Tsewei Lama, it’s the greatest downfall. Breaking samaya with one’s root Guru leads to the utter incapability to truly accomplish, and one is forced [...] |
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