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By Norma on March 12, 2010
3/12/2010 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 [...]
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By Holly on March 11, 2010
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. [...]
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By Norma on March 11, 2010
3/11/2010 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, [...]
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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 [...]
A teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, 1996
If you have a real relationship with your own nature and you really understood the wisdom and the beauty of the Buddha’s teaching and didn’t see it as his teaching, but as a wisdom that appeared in the world here. You could see it as your teaching, as a [...]
A teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, 1996
How to understand that your faith is alive? Try being alive in your faith. The ball’s in your court, and you’re not going to get away from that. You cannot change the religion and think that it’s going to suit your needs, because then you’re doing something else entirely. [...]
A teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, 1996
It’s interesting to realize that when we come to the temple, we’re already interested in Dharma. Why are we interested in Dharma? There are lots of different reasons. We like the look of it: it’s interesting and exotic. The statues are really cool. The colors are nice. We have [...]
A teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, 1996
We are told that in order to be a good person you have to do a certain amount of church-going. That church-going idea is deadly. It’s really the antithesis of a spiritual path, and I find that here as well. Our Sangha also plays church. Whenever I see one [...]
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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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