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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 an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Your Treasure is Heart” The vow of refuge—taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha—is a vow that one must renew every lifetime, but the power of the Bodhisattva Vow is so strong that the power and potency of [...] Excerpt from a teaching on Compassion by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo If you’ve never practiced the Buddhadharma before, or if you’re interested in practicing, or if you have practiced some general meditation and you feel it’s time to move on to a path that is more stable or well known, then you’re in a perfect [...] The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Your Treasure is Heart” There are many different ways that one can actually engage and begin to train the mind as a Bodhisattva. Actually, as a Bodhisattva the goal is to make every aspect of one’s life a vehicle for the [...] The following is a YouTube video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Your Treasure is Heart” Bodhichitta is, in fact, our nature, as much our nature as Buddhahood. We are, in our nature, this fundamentally compassionate reality. Buddhahood itself has no other capability, other than that of Bodhichitta. Yet it has within itself [...] From: “Great Perfection Buddha In the Palm of the Hand: The Lama’s Oral Instructions Upon the Recitation and Visualization of the Preliminary Practices Ngondro” as revealed by Vidydhara Terton Migyur Dorje PAL KUNTUZANGPO LA CHAG TSHAL LO I prostrate to the glorious Samantabhadra. DAL JOR DI NI SHIN TU NYED PAR KA This precious human [...] The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Mindfulness of Cyclic Existence” The subject of this teaching is the difficulty that Westerners have in coming to grips with some of the concepts that are foundational to Buddhism. They are so foundational as to be almost invisible at times. Yet [...] The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Stabilizing the Mind” If you can get to a place of natural awareness, you can remain mindful in a way that isn’t really describable in words. You can begin to sense a little bit of space between the calm, natural awareness [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Stabilizing the Mind” While you’re practicing you have to find a way to stabilize your mind. I cannot emphasize mindfulness enough. It is what will result in a stabilized mind. One of the best things that you can do, no matter what experience you’re [...] At Jetsunma’s invitation Khenpo Norgey and representatives of the Hopi people participated at an event at the Amitabha Stupa in Sedona. The Hopis came to offer traditional songs at this land that is also considered sacred by the Hopis. From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: This is our Palyul Khenpo [...] |
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