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Your 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 Teaching

The 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.

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Identifying What is Important

Identifying What is Important

The 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 [...]

Astrology

You 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, [...]

Relying on the Lineage and the Guru: Full Length Video Teaching

The 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.

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The Challenges of the Contemporary Disciple

The following is respectfully excerpted from “How to Follow a Spiritual Master” edited by the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute:

We have tried above to show the deeper meaning and role of a Spiritual Master, as well as the way in which he should be sought and followed, by first looking at what dharma means, how [...]

Prayer: The Gurus of the Six Realms

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 [...]

From “How to Follow a Spiritual Master” – From the Vinaya

The following is from “How to Follow a Spiritual Master“  – According to the Vinaya:

We should first request and receive the pure precepts or vows from him and further make abundant offerings, honouring him at all times with out body, speech and mind. The three hundred verses of the precepts of novice give [...]

Our Most Precious Investment is the Guru

The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:

Having a Guru in your life is the best friend you have. They guide you through lfetimes until you reach enlightenment. Use them.

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Choosing Your Guide

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

Buddhism doesn’t need you, you need Buddhism. Lama doesn’t need you, you need Lama. There are many more students than teachers.

To climb Mt. Everest one needs a Sherpa (guide) to show the way. A map or book is useless. You can [...]

Transform Neurosis Into True Guru Yoga: Full Length Video Teaching

The following is a full length video teaching from Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered at Kunzang Palyul Choling:

 

How does this relationship with a Guru work? Do you give over l thought? Of course not. Jetsunma explores how our habits get in the way of an honest relationship. Then she helps us see how [...]

Prayer of the Three Kayas Inseparable from the Lama

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 [...]

Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

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 [...]

Prayer to the Peerless Guru

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 [...]