Recent PostsBy Norma on February 7, 2012 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 [...]
Category: Astrology By Jetsunma on February 6, 2012 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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Category: Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, Video  By Jetsunma on February 6, 2012
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 [...]
Category: Commitment to the Path SU2-39, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo By Norma on February 6, 2012 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, [...]
Category: Astrology
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The following poem is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement:
I cried so much earlier, then I stopped a while. Time to cry again, no tears now. Too late for tears.
I wish I had some tears left over. I wish the well wasn’t [...]
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Your Treasure is Heart”
Bodhichitta is, in fact, our nature, as much our nature as Buddhahood. We are, in our nature, this fundamentally compassionate reality. Buddhahood itself has no other capability, other than that of Bodhichitta. Yet it has within itself [...]
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Your Treasure is Heart”
Bodhicitta is the one subject that is taught from the first moment that one enters onto the path until the last moment before one really engages in completion stage practice. It is a primary and necessary fundamental [...]
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The following is a series of tweets given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on the importance of lineage:
Wisdom and Compassion are the two eyes of Mahayana. Wisdom is pure awareness of empty nature. Not book learning. Compassion is Boddhicitta. Boddhicitta is primordial fundamental uncontrived nature’s pristine display. To attain wisdom meditate [...]
From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Today I was sent a very good question and would like to answer it here. The question concerned the Buddhist ideal of “awakening”. The writer wonders: “if this is a dream, and we try to wake up, what is there to awaken to?”
So here [...]
An excerpt from a teaching called Compassion, Love, & Wisdom by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
According to the Buddha we continue in cyclic existence and suffer as we do because of desire, and that desire is born of the belief in self-nature as being inherently real. Therefore the cessation of desire, in all its forms, [...]
An excerpt from a teaching called Compassion, Love, & Wisdom by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
We are going to talk about something that is very core to the Buddha’s teaching and that you will hear about again and again as you continue to practice on the Buddha’s path. This subject is compassion. It is about [...]
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