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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, [...]

From the Pratimoksha Sutra

The following quotes are respectfully taken from “How to Follow a Spiritual Master” by Ngagyur Nyingma Institute:

Hence, Lord Buddha has said in the Pratimoksha Sutra:

Abandon all non-virtues, Cultivate all virtues, Tame our mind in its entirety, This is the teaching of the Buddha.

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Caretaking the Gift

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Commitment to the Path”

It is so important and so precious that we have this human existence. We should consider ourselves caretakers of that—that prize, that gift, that blessing—that it should not be taken lightly.

Sometimes we think, “Oh, you know, [...]

Mindful Living Part 1 of 5: Full Length Video Teaching

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

 

This 5 part workshop was given over a weekend and fcuses on the many ways we can invoke recognition of our nature using Mindfulness.

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Waking Up From the Deep Slumber of Ignorance

The following is a prayer from the Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony as translated in the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book from Palyul Ling International:

Alas! Fortunate ones!

Do not let ignorance overwhelm you.

Wake up now and be diligent.

Since beginningless time to this very moment

You have been sleeping in ignorance. Enough!

Now sleep [...]

Awaken Effortless Compassion: Full Length Video Teaching

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

Require of yourself that you change utterly so that only compassion guides your life.

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Let Good Intention Fill Your Life: Full Length Video Teaching

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

 

Offer every minute of your experience to benefit others and you will train your mind to enlightenment.

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The Western Habit of Externalizing All: Full Length Video Teaching

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

 

The habit of making everything external is the opposite of the path to enlightenment which is an internal event. How do we bridge this gap?

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While Samsara Burns

 

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

Some of them are prideful, full of themselves in a way that precludes actual opening. Like cigar smoke in a furnished room makes a man.

Some are like Nero, madly playing in the bubble of delusion while samsara burns. Burns.

Some [...]

Taking Responsibility for Our Path

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Neurotic Interaction to Guru Yoga” 

Today we are going to continue the process of looking at two main and fundamental foundational teachings associated with the Buddhadharma. We have examined and re-examined the Bodhicitta, which is one of the main foundational attitudes [...]

The Burning Room

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Bringing Virtue Into Life”

We can live our lives as the walking dead, and then die, unprepared, like going to a continent filled with precious jewels and coming back empty-handed.  Or, we can switch on the lights, face facts and do [...]