The Meditation Upon The Four Immeasurables

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The following is respectfully quoted from “Buddha in the Palm of the Hand” Nam Chö Terma Revelation by Terton Migyur Dorje:

MA NAM KHA DANG NYAM PAI SEM CHEN THAM CHED
May all motherly sentient beings equal to space

DEWA DANG DEWAI GYU DANG DEN PAR GYUR CHIG
Achieve happiness and the causes of happiness

DUG NGAL DANG DUG NGAL GYI GYU DANG DRAL WAR GYUR CHIG
May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

DUG NGAL MED PAI DEWA DAM PA DANG MI DRAL WAR GYUR CHIG
May all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is sorrowless

NYER RING CHAG DANG DANG TRAL WAI TANG NYOM CHEN POI NGANG LA
And free from the partiality of attachment and aversion. May they live believing in

NEI PAR GYUR CHIG
The equality of all that lives.

Sending and Receiving:

While exhaling from both nostrils, consider that all of one’s merit and the root of all virtue

Is sent forth to all parent sentient beings who equally receive it. Meditate that all sentient beings

Experience immeasurable happiness.

Astrology for 12/31/2018

12/31/2018 Monday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Deep answers

This is a reflective time. Insights are likely today. This helps navigate your unavoidable responsibilities, feeling burdened and having no choice. There is a sense of healing the self so you can fulfill your destiny and transform old habits. You work hard to fulfill your highest principles today. The only thing that is meaningful is to make this life a vehicle by which you can come to benefit beings.~Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo

Astrology for 12/30/2018

12/30/2018 Sunday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Dealing with responsibilities

For the next few days responsibilities are ratcheting up as you seek to distinguish between what you would like to do and what you need to do. It continues to be an emotionally disruptive time due, this time, to the actions of others. Gifts from the past are a strong theme today and serve to push you in a beneficial but unfamiliar direction. There’s no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.~Gloria Steinem

Today the Moon is Void of Course from 5.55 pm EST USA until 8.24 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.

Essence of Buddhism: by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche

The following is a teaching by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche

We are born in this Zambu-dweep world and have acquired the precious human rebirth due to the gathering of the compositional factors of the eight leisures and ten blessings. This is a most perfect and auspicious opportunity. That we are fortunate enough to receive the teaching of perfect Buddha dharma and also be able to meet so many qualified teachers is the result of the ripening of our positive merits from countless past lives.
But due to our attachment from time beginningless towards the repeated pattern of samsara, we have developed strong emotions towards this samsara. Therefore, it is common for sentient beings to find themselves emotionally drawn towards the attainment of worldly concern regardless of difficulty and hardships, which in turn generates all types of karmas in the process.
If we truly want to learn the teaching of Dharma, we must first find a qualified teacher. Buddhism has Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions, of which Vajrayana and especially the Great Perfection (Dzogpachenpo) is especially beneficent for the degenerated times like now. The actual practice to Dzogchen consists of preliminary and the main practices, that has visualizations, recital of mantras and the sadhanas.
In fact, we might all think we know about Dharma and might even want to practice these teachings, but because of our attachment to worldly distractions, we are not able to practice accordingly as instructed, as if we show no concern for the effect of karma, as though karma is not real and does not really exist, and thus as a result, succeed in continually creating more negative karma. Only at the end of our lives, when we come face to face with the imminent sufferings of death, do we start thinking that we should do something about it! But by that time, even if we come to realize that we have not studied the Dharma and neither have we applied ourselves properly according to the pith instructions of the teacher and hence the prospect of falling into the three lower realms is imminent; the time of seeking the Dharma and practicing has already passed, so now what do we do?

Astrology for 12/29/2018

12/29/2018 Saturday by Wangmo & Jampal

Theme: Building momentum

With a lot of Capricorn energy today the focus is on creating structures that are purposeful, lasting and transforming. Disruptions continue as a consequence of one’s habitual patterns: emotionally you are tested. It will be a challenge not to get distracted as you seek to move forward. Emotionally you are seeking harmony and diplomatic solutions to difficulties. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.~Frank A. Clark

Astrology for 12/28/2018

12/28/2018 Friday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Easily irritated 

As our inner warrior (Mars) continues to undergo a healing transformation, patience needs to be practiced with others. Today, be sure that there is really a need a for confrontation, before having it out. The inner warrior is finishing his time in Pisces, so a spiritual focus is best. Creative potential is high now, especially if negative thinking can be transformed. There is no transgression like hatred, and no fortitude like patience.~Shantideva

Astrology for 12/27/2018

12/27/2018 Thursday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Focus your thinking 

The Moon placed in the sign of adaptable, analytical Virgo is interacting with other planets in a way that creates scattered, restless thoughts. Can you focus on what is important today? If you can, breakthroughs will result. As Arnold Palmer says, concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Interactions with close ones continue to bring up deep, important issues. And revolutionary energy stirs up how we see the past and the future. 

Astrology for 12/26/2018

12/26/2018 Wednesday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Excitement and Responsibilities

A confusing haze is slowly lifting. There is much positive about today: emotional energy flows with one’s sense of purpose and insights are becoming more grounded. Over the next week and a half there is more need to face responsibilities. If you can do this accomplishment and satisfaction will result. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.~Abraham Lincoln 

Commentary on the Bodhisattva Vow: HH Penor Rinpoche – Our Kind Parents

mother and child

The following is adapted from an oral commentary given by His Holiness in conjunction with a ceremony wherein he bestowed the bodhisattva vow upon a gathering of disciples at Namdroling in Bozeman, Montana, November 1999:

[The second way to adjust one’s intention in order to be in harmony with the special feature of this instruction is through] developing attraction to enlightenment. According to this tradition, what leads one to develop an attraction to enlightenment is the cultivation of love for all beings, which begins by contemplating the suffering of cyclic existence and then cultivating repulsion and weariness [toward that existence].

Think about all living beings that at some time or another, throughout the course of innumerable past lifetimes, have been your own kind father or mother. Consider how a mother will anything for her child–even give her own life, without hesitation. Consider how all living beings have been that kind to you at some time in the past–not just once, but countless times, in countless different circumstances and situations over the course of countless lifetimes since beginningless time. Consider also that to not think carefully about repaying this kindness, and thereby to go through your life without the intention to truly benefit parent sentient beings, and so to actually ignore them, is truly shameless.

Many people in the West may think, “Wait a minute! My parents were not very kind to me. In fact, we are not even close, and I don’t even like them, so why should I feel that I need to repay their kindness now?” If that is what you think, then take a moment to think about how you acquired your body. Is it not due to the kindness of your parents that you have your precious human body? From the time your consciousness entered the union of your father’s seed and your mother’s egg, your mother carried you in her own body. Her body nurtured you as you grew within it. Then with pain and difficulty she gave birth to you. Her kindness did not just stop there: for many years she cared for you and lovingly fed, cleaned, clothed, and wiped you; she provided shelter and cared for you when you were sick, and thus she protected you and looked out for you constantly. If you think you don’t need to repay the kindness of your parents, just remind yourself of those events, which you were the recipient of time and time again.

If that still does not change your attitude, so that you still do not understand the kindness your parents showed you, then think about your body, the gift of your body, which is who you are; your parents gave you that. Because your parents showed you the great kindness of giving you your body, your precious life, here you are. Sure you had the causes for your precious human rebirth, but without parents you wouldn’t have your body. And if you didn’t have your body, you wouldn’t be able to receive these vows.

In our present state of ignorance, we have an inability to recognize that all beings have been our parents in the past, and we certainly don’t know what the particular situations and circumstances of those lifetimes were. Nonetheless, it is certain that we have had countless sentient beings as our parents over and over again in countless past lives. The truth is, at the present time we just do not recognize that.

Imagine you are on the bank of a river with your mother and suddenly she falls in and is being carried away by the rushing water. There you stand on the bank, watching that happen. What would you do? Would you do something to try to save her, such as throw out a rope? Or would your turn your back and walk away rather than risk your own life? Would you be concerned for her, or would your concern be only for yourself? The intention of hearers and solitary realizers can be likened to the later case, while the intention of Mahayana practitioners can be likened to the former. While it is important to develop attraction toward peace, you should never, for any reason, be attracted to the quiescence of the hearers and solitary realizers.

Astrology for 12/25/2018

12/25/2018 Tuesday by Jampal & Wangmo

Theme: Intense Relationships

Through the next week friendships and partnerships become deeper and more transforming. Be willing to either nurture or receive nurturing at this time. Artistic activities are also enhanced. The tendencies for misunderstandings is less today, especially when speaking from the heart. When it comes to any big plans, make sure that they are realistic. Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.~J. R. Rim

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