Astrology7/31/2010 Saturday You wake up happy and with a plan! You were thinking in your sleep, and the result is good. Talk things over with your inner circle, and with the boss, and you will feel stable. Energetic action, initiating new activity and moving forward stabilize the situation. Money or good luck come from activity, so [...] 
The Heart of Experience is the GuruAn excerpt from the Mindfulness workshop given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in 1999 For many of you, I know that when we first started this temple it was family style, and you thought of yourselves as children, and I thought of myself as your mother in many ways, and there was a spiritual family dynamic. We [...] Astrology7/30/2010 Friday Take it easy early today and enjoy the lull because a storm is about to hit. Choppy seas ahead! Things loll along and then suddenly all heliotrope breaks loose! Hold your ground. Keep your head. Careful analysis that leads to action is good. You will be tempted to react strongly if a mistake has [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series For Westerners, one of the basic teachings of the Buddha, that all sentient beings are suffering, is very difficult to understand. Our culture doesn’t buy the idea of suffering. Most of us seem to have everything, or if we don’t have everything we [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series Let’s say you’re not up to following a qualified teacher. Let’s say you don’t go that route. You can still meditate. You can still follow those basic precepts that are brought to us through the enlightened mind of the Buddha without going that [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the The Vow of Love series In Buddhism, we explore the idea of suffering first. In that regard, Buddhism has been given a bad rap here in America. Many of the New Age philosophies support the idea that one should think only positive thoughts, and use affirmations. [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series It is useful to really look around at sentient beings and see they are suffering. It is also useful to look at yourself. This is not meant to make you depressed or sad. It is meant to give you what it [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series There are many Dharma practitioners who practice for many years, go on retreat, and even take ordination. Then at some point, some karmic switch flips in their minds and suddenly they’re finished with Dharma! They don’t want to do Dharma anymore. [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series You may ask, “Why do I have to think about suffering? Why is it that the Buddha talks about suffering and nobody else does? Why is it that today’s New Age thinkers are saying, ‘I want to be me. I want [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series 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 [...] HE Mugsang Kuchen Rinpoche An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series How can you develop the kind of love that sustains itself? How can you cultivate compassion like a fire that never runs out of wood to burn? That never goes out. The fire of compassion is based [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series How does one cultivate the selfless goal of wanting to benefit all beings and not fall unconsciously into the trap of wanting to be a kind person? A good way to begin is to open our eyes and truly understand the [...] Have you thought about the welfare of sentient beings today? Remembered those hungry, sick, old, grieving, warring, without hope? After contemplating the suffering beings in cyclic existence, have you felt mercy, compassion, concern, sadness, grief, a wish to help? Have you wondered at the meat on your plate? The suffering of the animal? We want the animal’s [...] |
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