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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 a prayer from “The Great Perfection Buddha in the Palm of the Hand: The Lama’s Oral Instructions Upon the Recitation and Visualization of the Preliminary Practice of Ngondro” as revealed by Vidydhara Terton Migyur Dorje The syllable GURU is the Guru in the hell realms, Guru Nampar-nön. Reddish-black in color, he [...] The following is a prayer from the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book by Palyul Ling International: Lord Guru, Dharmakaya Buddha, to you I pray. Grant blessings to cleanse the darkness of ignorance. To the Sambhogakaya guru, I pray; Grant blessings that meditative absorption will develop in my mind. To the compassionate manifestation body of [...] The following prayer is from the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book by Palyul Ling International: HRIH NGÖN GYI KAL PAI DANG PO LA In the past, at the beginning of this aeon, O GYEN YUL GYI NUB JYANG TSAM In the northwest country of Uddiyana, DHANA KO SHAI TSO LING DU On an island [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Every great lama has yearned with sincere intensity for the Precious Teacher. How is it that some people have that yearning and others do not? Some people seem shallow and prideful. Others seem blessed with spontaneous devotion and love. What accounts for [...] The following is an excerpt from “The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava“: …in the temple of Ãryapãla these were ordered to translate the Bon manuals of magic. During the period, for royal sacrifice the Bon were required to provide a stag with antlers; they captured a stag alive and burst into song. Then they [...] 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 [...] From The Spiritual Path: A Compilation of Teachings by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Dharmakaya is objectless compassion. It is everywhere. It upholds all manifested reality. All that we see, all appearances, are merely the arising of that mind in its emanation phase. Unfortunately, we have contrived a dualistic perception of self and other. We have [...] Invocation mp3 Download Lord Guru Teach me to see your face Rinpoche Teach me to call your name [...] Mother Song & Seven Line Prayer The following are the lyrics to The Mother’s Song, recorded by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in 1992. You can listen to the recording by clicking the link above. The Mother’s Song This morning I woke up With the sounds of suffering Speaking their names In my ear Spoke of [...] The following is an excerpt from “Dakini Teachings: A Collection of Padmasambhava’s Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal” “Lady Tsogyal asked the master: How severe is the misdeed of breaking the master’s command? The master replied: The misdeeds of the three levels of existence do not match even a fraction of the evil of [...] |
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