Astrology3/12/2010 Friday Friends are friendly today, and you’re feeling group oriented. A group can achieve something that a single person can’t possibly manage. Like picking up a car that has run off the road, or pitching in to help finish a job before a deadline. “United we stand” is today’s motto. A project is building up [...] 
Liberate Your MindAn 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. [...] Astrology3/11/2010 Thursday If you “mouth off” around a superior you will regret it. Authority figures are feeling conservative and will not appreciate your brash attitude. Apologize if you have spoken inappropriately. You are so excited about the new forward motion in your life that you could act a little goofy. Be silly or exuberant in private, [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series All conceptualization, all phenomena arise from the belief in self-nature and from the compulsion, at that point, to make self appear separate from other, making a reactive relationship necessary. Your entire mind consists of the phenomena of hope and [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series Do you remember the innocent sense of longing you felt when you first started to seek the spiritual path? You must have felt it at one point or another, or you could not receive this teaching. You could not. You must [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love Series In order to get to the depth of this awareness we can begin to practice as the Buddha practiced. We can begin to take the antidote for desire. We can begin to take the antidote for the belief in self-nature as [...] 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 [...] Photo by Lee Pham His Holiness the Dalai Lama is coming to Washington, D.C.—our very own neighborhood! Of particular interest to Buddhists, whether aspiring or practicing, is the teaching he will give at American University on October 10, “The Heart of Change: Finding Wisdom in the Modern World.” His Holiness is renowned [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series Now, from my point of view, if you don’t believe in reincarnation you have no access to the technology of Buddhism. You have to accept the idea you have lived before, and that some of the results you see ripening in [...] |
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