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AstrologyYour thinking is powerful, and communication is great today. Someone comes along and gives you a whole different perspective. Integrate the new ideas into your game plan and you will move forward rapidly. Have fun! If you’re invited to be part of a creative venture, accept and play your part. Someone shines and a group [...] Relying on the Lineage and the Guru: Full Length Video TeachingThe following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered at Kunzang Palyul Choling: Relationship with the Guru is the “rocketship of Vajrayana”. These teachers appear for only one reason – us. So, we can rely utterly on their blessing. © copyright Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo All rights reserved. [...]  Identifying What is ImportantThe following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Commitment to the Path: These two particular teachings about the preciousness of this human rebirth and the impermanence of all things samsaric are supposed to make us see, recognize and call to mind and to be mindful of the difference between [...] AstrologyYou get up on the wrong side of the bed today, unwilling to meet the day. A bad dream or trouble sleeping slows you down. Wait a bit and you will perk up, and when you do you have enough energy for a hundred people! Suddenly, you’re magnetic and feeling great! Enough of the moody, [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Compassion is the Only Lasting Antidote to Suffering We were raised to believe that reality can be manipulated. Our libraries are filled with books of great American success stories. These tend to be about material successes. But the spiritual aspirant must ask: Will this [...] An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhists Think by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo In their Nature, all sentient beings are essentially the Buddha––all humans, all animals, even all the microscopic little beings running around on the tips or our noses. We should regard that Nature as the basis or seed of the Path. The [...] 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 [...] An excerpt from the Vow of Love Series by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo In a superficial way the idea of compassion can seem very simple, and we might make the mistake of thinking that we understand it. But if we study compassion deeply, eventually we will come to understand that the ultimate view of compassion [...] Here is another excerpt from the first chapter of A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life called “The Benefits of the Awakening Mind.” May these words written by Shantideva inspire all who encounter them. #26 How can I fathom the depths Of the goodness of this jewel of the mind, The panacea that relieves the world of pain And is [...] An excerpt from the Mindfulness workshop given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in 1999 One of the practices that we are taught as Buddhists is that always, always, Guru Rinpoche should be above the crown of our heads. We should be mindful that Guru Rinpoche is always there, seated on his lotus throne. Upon going to [...] Yeshe Tsogyal From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
The Vajrayana path is a great gift. Your mind can be purified through the practice of allowing it to arise naturally with those qualities of perfect union and perfectly purified perception. “Well,” you may say. “That sounds good, but [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Turning Adversity Into Felicity When we practice Guru Yoga, we actually begin to develop the view that the lama is the source of liberation. We begin to understand using traditional, prescribed images. For instance, we are taught that we should think of samsara as [...] An excerpt from a teaching called Awakening from Non-Recognition by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo There are so many amazing ways that you can practice. I’ve seen it again and again in the greatest practitioners, but only in the greatest, so we aspire to this. I think about stories I’ve heard about the Tibetan Bodhisattvas. For [...]
An excerpt from a teaching called The Seed of Your Buddha Nature Within by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo One understands that Enlightenment is actually the awakening to the Primordial Wisdom Nature, the awakening to the Buddha nature. The Buddha never said that he was different from anyone else. He said simply, “I am [...] |
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