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Extraordinary Technology

Extraordinary Technology

An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhism Differs from Other Religions by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Let’s say that a practitioner has dedicated their lives to practicing everyday for the sake of sentient beings, for the happiness of sentient beings.  Maintaining their samaya or commitment practice very purely, practicing everyday for the [...]

Astrology

9/9/2010     Thursday

Problems must be solved early in the day.  You are blocked on three sides:  personal, partnership and the world.  So go in the open door, which is home and family.  A safe haven awaits you there.  This is a wonderful day to spend time working on domestic issues, and family is behind you all [...]

Ordinary or Extraordinary?

Ordinary or Extraordinary?

An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhism Differs from Other Religions by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

In the Buddha Dharma there are mainly two kinds of compassion.   There is ordinary compassion, and there is extraordinary or sublime compassion, also called ordinary bodhicitta or sublime bodhicitta.   Bodhicitta is the great display of compassion, which is [...]

Root Downfalls

[Adapted from an oral commentary given by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in conjunction with a ceremony wherein he bestowed the bodhisattva vow upon a gathering of disciples at Namdroling in Bozeman, Montana, November 1999. ---Ed.]

As the ancient literature states, there are five vows that pertain to rulers or kings, and those vows concern the ways [...]