Astrology for 08/31/2018

08/31/2018 Friday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Change and stability

There is an emotional solidity to the day that can be calming. This energy will help when dealing with unexpected change today. It’s a good day to check the stability of any investments in time or money you are undertaking. There is a continuing harmonious aspect between your relating and communication capacity – lasting for the next 10 days. This enables you to express your loving feelings towards others and undertake artistic endeavors. If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.~Ajahn Chah

Invocation

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Lord Guru

Teach me to see your face

Rinpoche

Teach me to call your name

Come Come Come Come

Appear in Nirmanakaya form

Make your holy face

Appear

Be known to us now

Do not leave us comfortless

Do not abandon your vow

Bring us your nectar

For we thirst

We Thirst!

And we cry to you

Stainless, precious one

Without your blessing

We are helpless

Do not refuse

This voice

I offer my body, speech and mind

Take this body to enhance yor

Activity

Make of this speech a perfect

Voice

And in my mind you are

Enthroned

Upon the lotus in my heart

Use me

Use me

Use me

For the sake of all beings

That they might be free

Ah la la ho

Ah la la ho

Ah la la ho

For their sake

My children

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, April 2, 1992

Astrology for 08/30/2018

08/30/2018 Thursday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Enjoyment versus Indulgence

There is the opportunity to learn about relationships and your attitudes towards others. You will have insight and be able to communicate more clearly. There is a focus and emotional responsiveness today that enables you to integrate your feelings with action. You may feel uplifted and excited about prospects in a way that you haven’t before. Enjoy yourself but beware of having too much of a good thing. Be suspicious of what you want.~Rumi

Today the Moon is Void of Course from 7.05 pm EST USA until 9.31 pm. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.

Seed Of Your Buddha Nature

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When one begins to understand some of the ideas that are presented in Dharma, one realizes that the goal that we are engaged in “moving toward”, if you’ll forgive that bad choice of words, is actually Buddha Nature itself. We tend to consider that the path is like a thing that goes from here to there, like a movement toward, and it’s very hard not to conceptualize it in that way. But, in fact, when one practices Dharma, the ability to practice Dharma is actually based on the understanding of the innate Nature. If we did not have within us right now the seed of Enlightenment, if we did not have within us the potential to actualize ourselves as the Buddha, there would be no point of practice. The very basis for practice is that understanding.

This is what the Buddha himself taught – that all sentient beings have within them the seed of Buddha Nature, that that Nature is their true Nature, in fact. However, they have not awakened to that Nature and so, in order awaken to that Nature, one engages in the path. The path should not be considered a ‘thing’, a straight line that connects from here to there. The path should be understood as a method that one uses in order to awaken to that Nature which is already our Nature; which is complete, unchanging, and will never get any bigger or any smaller. One should understand that Dharma is actually an activity that is meant to awaken that potential. But the ultimate goal that one wishes for when one engages in Dharma is, of course, Enlightenment itself. Now, what is Enlightenment? One understands that Enlightenment is actually the awakening to the Primordial Wisdom Nature, the awakening to the Buddha nature.

The Buddha never said that he was different from anyone else. He said simply, “I am awake”. He is indicating that he has awakened to the fullness of his own Nature and is able to abide spontaneously in that awakened state without any interruption or impediment. So, from that perspective, the basis of practice, the basis of the path itself is exactly the same as the goal. They are indistinguishable from one another. The path that one uses in order to achieve the goal is also indistinguishable from the basis, which is the Buddha Nature, and is also indistinguishable from the goal, which is the Buddha Nature. So, these three things, the basis, the method and the goal are indistinguishable from one another.

For us, however, it does not appear to be so, simply because of the way our minds work, involved in discursive thought as they are. We distinguish between what is potential and movement. We distinguish between movement and the goal. But in truth, you cannot distinguish between these three. If the basis for practice is the same as the goal, then anything, in which you engage in order to achieve that awakening to your own Nature, must also be indistinguishable from your own Nature. The path, then, or the method, is not separate from the Buddha Nature.

Now, where we run into trouble is when we make our Dharma practice an outward movement that goes somewhere. When we do our practice, we project that there is going to be a certain result. That very subtle concept prevents the practice from doing all that it can do to remove obstacles from our own perception, because we cling to the idea of here-ness and there-ness, of such-ness and thus-ness, and in doing so, we cling to the idea of self. It’s very hard to understand that subtle difference, but that subtle difference is very important. If we did not view our Dharma practice as a subject, object, thing or as a linear movement in some way, we would more easily understand that the goal is the un-moveable, unchangeable, fully complete and spontaneously realized Nature itself, which is already present. The potential for the realization of that Nature would be much stronger in our practice, in terms of taking responsibility for our situation and utilizing our practice to its fullest capacity.

In order for us to consider our Dharma practice, or even the ability to listen to teachings, as a movement that ‘goes somewhere’– we have to be considering it in a very superficial way. But if the practice is understood as a natural and spontaneous manifestation, arising from the Buddha Nature that is our Nature, then the practice becomes less materialistic and more meaningful in a very profound way. In the same way, if we are in an ordinary environment and an ordinary teacher comes before us, we don’t respond as we would if the Buddha himself, with all the signs and marks, were sitting in front of us. If the Buddha appeared, we would respond with, “Whoa! Whoa! This is important! Something is happening here. The Buddha is here!” In truth, we should respond that same way to our own simple practice because that practice is indistinguishable from the Buddha Nature itself. The Buddha is here. But you see, the impact is different. Why the impact is different is in the way that we consider and the way we have our understanding about what we’re doing.

©Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo

Astrology for 08/29/2018

08/29/2018 Wednesday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Healing the past in order to engage the present moment

With the Moon leaving the feeling sign of Pisces and moving into the head strong sign of Aries the emotional dynamic shifts from reflection to action. It’s also a day of healing past disappointments freeing you up to be present to the many tasks and challenges at hand. You continue to have opportunities to see how mindfulness in communication is an asset and how pausing judiciously before speaking can be a gift. In the spaces in between there are poems. Vanna Bonta writes, ‘The true poem rests between the words.’

Astrology for 08/28/2018

08/28/2018 Tuesday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Channeling emotions 

Emotions continue to be a powerful consideration today as the Moon is tied into many other energies. In the early afternoon the Moon enters the sign of Aries, and we want things now. The only negative influence today comes from Saturn, so don’t isolate and don’t over-do ‘shoulds’. Instead, stay active and see the opportunities that are right under your nose. An old wound starts to heal. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.~Stephen Richards

Today the Moon is Void of Course from 9.56 am EST USA until 12.36 pm. If you’re in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or signing contracts during this time.

The Play Of Emptiness

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An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Dakini Workshop

When we taste the nature of the dakini through our practice, through whatever realization we achieve, when we taste that nature, when we taste the purity of that event through being exposed to, in a natural way, our own poison, our own fixation, our own determination to continue to absorb and be absorbed in and to remain fixated in a certain kind of view, a view of clean and dirty, a view of this and that, a view of high and low, a view of here and there, we can eventually come around to seeing through that absorption.

To the degree that we understand that by stabilizing our mind, by remaining unattached to the distinction between dirty and clean and up and down and here and there and you and me, we can begin to view the play or movement of emptiness. However, we think very superficially, we think we will achieve enlightenment and that is what is going to happen and we think we will have some kind of blissful experience – I think we have the idea of evolution. We think that we are going to evolve into something quite different. That is the kind of idea that we have.

What we do not attempt and what we should attempt by meditating on the nature of the dakini and by utilizing this particular phenomena, this particular movement of the Buddha nature, is to understand that the point is to pierce the veil of our own confusion, to see through this mistaken belief that things continue, to see the primordial empty nature that is inherent in all display, to see that all phenomena is instantly complete, to hold to our nature, to practice that view.

Unfortunately, however, we insist on breaking samaya. We break the commitment. We hold so much more importance in our own value judgments, our own distinctions, our own understanding of the way things ought to be and the way they are and therefore we see what our minds are filled with. We see the appearance of this enlightened activity as being ordinary, having certain qualities. We brand it with mental qualities that are our own. We see physical, emotional qualities that we ourselves are hooked on and we do not taste the appearance of that nature. So, we miss the entire point.

Copyright © Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo. All rights reserved

Astrology for 08/27/2018

08/27/2018 Monday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Spiritual sensitivity and worldly success

The opportunities for practical accomplishments continue for a few more days. Be proactive. And yet, especially if you are spiritually inclined, today you will be very sensitive to the energies around you. Be patient with negative people, but don’t let them recruit you. The tendency to think big is peaking. Don’t overlook the details, including other people’s wishes (LOL). Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth~Mahatma Gandhi

Astrology for 08/26/2018

08/26/2018 Sunday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: High energy

With the full moon in full swing it’s a high energy time. The challenge will be to balance your opposite sides – your head and your heart, your home life and your work life etc. With the boundless Moon in Pisces your intuition is high but has to be integrated with sense of purpose and discrimination.  There is an intensity to emotional expression for a few days. Try to let people be themselves.  If you love somebody, if you love someone set them free.~Sting

 

Astrology for 08/25/2018

08/25/2018 Saturday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Unexpected good fortune with a twist

Be active in pursuit of your goals. The opportunities are ripe but complacency could mean missing them. This is a good time to make structural changes. At the same time there is still a lot of tension both internally and externally. Stay calm especially when working with machines. With the Moon in Aquarius there is futuristic yearnings and a tendency to think ones feelings. People say I’m crazy. I say Hah… I’m just fun with a twist.~Bugs Bunny

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