The following is a teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Palyul Ling in upstate New York on July 29th, 2012:
You can download an mp3 file of the teaching here:
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Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Kindness is The Way
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Last evening I taught my class at Palyul Ling. Lots came and lots tuned in from around the world. I enjoyed it and tears of love were everywhere! I hope you tuned in, and if not it is still up on line on U-stream, or you can watch it here – check it out!
I’d like to teach again. Feedback was that it was good to hear teachings on the Boddhicitta, and from a Western Tulku. From a woman.
Anyhow, this is the place and time to be! It is gorgeous here, weather is good. I’m resting today.
OM TARE TU TARE TU TURE YE SOHA
OM MANI PEDME HUNG
What joy! I’m finding out students have formed a connection with Palyul Buddhism from my online activities. They practice together, have study groups from my blog and tweets. I knew it was through twitter and other social media that we could all be together and I am thrilled to be a doorway for this. I’ve met students I’ve never seen before! What joy to open wide the doors of Palyul and connect as family. And want to support their efforts by writing instructions and teachings from Palyul and myself as well. A good way to make Dharma free! Once His Holiness Penor Rinpoche told me I’d have Palyul centers all around the world. I thought that seemed impossible, but maybe not. Maybe this is the way.
As my pain heals I will not be as challanged, and will be able to travel. And you may contact us about how that may happen. How exciting! I am 100% Palyul and will open doors for this noble family as well as I can. Kindness is the way. Come to KPC and I am well I will come to you. Wherever you are, whoever you are, I honor you and reach out with love, compassion and respect for all.
Kindness is the way!
OM AH MI DEWA HRI
The Lama’s Oral Instructions
The following is respectfully quoted from “The Great Perfection, Buddha in the Palm of the Hand” Nam Cho Ngondro revealed by Terton Migyur Dorje:
The peacefully abiding, self-originating, great primordial wisdom is revealed by he who has actualized this self-nature. This Being, Ngag gi Wangpo, who is no different from Buddha Vajradhara himself, I place at the peak of my crown.
The verses of recitation and corresponding stages of visualization have been slightly expanded in the following manner;
Upon awakening in the morning, rise up immediately! Assume the seven point posture of Buddha Vairocana, with the body and with the speech center, perform the nine round air purification. AT the beginning of the morning session, in order to give potency to one’s mantra recitation, perform the Blessing of Speech. An excellent motivation should permeate one’s mental attitude.
The Lama, who is seated in the core of one’s heart, now rises to the crown of one’s head. Then, through the ripening of one’s prayers, the Lama melts into light and the mental continuum of the Lama’s realization, develops in one’s own mind. Meditate in this way without thinking of the past, greeting future thoughts and supporting thoughts in the present moment.
Remain in this way as long as possible. At the very moment that discursive thoughts arise, begin the common practice of training the mind.
The Power of Prayer: A Modern Miracle
The following post was submitted by Ani Pema Mallu, a veterinarian and student of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
About one week ago Kennedy was scooting on her rear so I checked her anal glands to see if they were full. I found a hard nodule mass at the left anal gland opening inside the rectum. I advised Jetsunma this would need excision and biopsy and could be a malignant tumor.
I had my associate, Dr. Kitty Raichura examine Kennedy for possible surgery. Dr. Raichura performed a rectal exam and confirmed the presence of a single rectal nodule near the left anal gland opening. She said this was beyond her expertise to perform the surgery and would need referral.
Yesterday, Dr. Peter Eeg anesthetized Kennedy in preparation for the surgery but when he did the rectal exam preop he found now three masses in a line near the left anal gland opening inside the rectum. He said this was beyond his level of surgical expertise and we need to wake her up and send her to a specialist for surgical excision.
I informed Jetsunma these masses may be malignant since they have spread from one to three so fast. I scheduled an appointment with Dr. David Salor, the chief of surgery at VCA Veterinary Referral Associates for the next day.
Jetsunma prayed for Kennedy throughout the night before surgery.
Kennedy went to VCA/VRA at 10 AM and Dr. Saylor anesthetized her in the afternoon for surgery. When he examined her rectally he at first didn’t find the what were obvious three masses and called Dr Eeg to confer with what he had observed. Further exam revealed three small nodules at the left anal gland opening but they were no longer mass like. Dr. Saylor filled the anal gland with a viscous antibiotic liquid and flushed the inner material out and one very hard concretion popped out and the nodule at the opening was gone the other two were still there. He flushed some more and two more hard concretions popped out and the other two nodules disappeared. No surgery was necessary. Kennedy was taken off anesthesia, recovered sent home.
This is truly a miracle story where Jetsunma’s prayers dissolved three possibly malignant tumors into three concretions overnight.
The Cycle Continues
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
The Palyul Retreat in New York is on, and after a bumpy start is running smoothly. I will be going soon after a few days or a week of treatment and duties at KPC. But I look forward to going. I hope to teach one Saturday night there. I have much to share with this new sangha developing Since His Holiness Penor Rinpoche’s parinirvana.
Letting go of the old, helping the new birth itself. Such is cyclic existence. Round and round. Yet the cycle continues unstopped. Whatever results we are living now were born before. And on we go until we learn to think in full equations.
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1000 Armed Avalokiteshvara
The following is respectfully quoted from “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche:
Countless ages ago, it is said, a thousand princes vowed to become buddhas. One resolved to become the Buddha we know as Gautama Siddhartha; Avalokiteshvara, however, vowed not to attain enlightenment until all the other thousand princes had themselves become buddhas. In his infinite compassion, he vowed too to liberate all sentient beings from the sufferings of the different realms of samsara. Before the buddhas of the ten directions, he prayed, “May I help all beings, and if ever I tire in this great work, may my body be shattered into a thousand pieces.” First, it is said, he descended into the hell realms, ascending gradually through the world of hungry ghosts, up the the realm of the gods. From there he happened to look down and saw, aghast, that though he had saved innumerable beings from hell, countless more were pouring in. This plunged him into the profoundest grief; for a moment he almost lost faith in that noble vow he had taken, and his body exploded into a thousand pieces. In his desperation, he called out to all the buddhas for help, who came to his aid from all directions of the universe, as one text said, like a soft blizzard of snowflakes. With their great power the buddhas made him whole again, and from then on Avalokiteshvara had eleven heads, and a thousand arms, and on each palm of each hand was an eye, signifying that union of wisdom and skillful means that is the mark of compassion. In this form he was even more resplendent and empowered than before to help all beings, and his compassion grew even more intense as again and again he repeated this vow before the buddhas: “May I not attain final buddhahood before all sentient beings attain enlightenment.”
Ven. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Arrives at KPC
The following is a video of comments made by Ven. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during his visit to Kunzang Palyul Choling. You can tune into a live webcast of his teaching this evening here:
Honoring Claire
Wanted to take a moment to publicly offer thanks to one of my students, Claire.
She doesn’t talk about it much, but she never stops moving, working to bring benefit in whatever way she can.
She’s been a team leader for the Garuda Aviary for years now. Her passion for the birds, as well as her accessible style, have helped grow an active, involved team committed to keeping the Aviary afloat despite challenging economic times.
She not only keeps the team informed and inspired, but takes calls and reads emails from people all over the country who have problem birds. She conscientiously answers them all, building a network of relationships sharing a mission to end the parrot trade and care for these precious beings.
When our team in Sedona was fumbling on how to secure the Amitabha Stupa, Claire was willing to step into the hot seat and has gotten the team motivated and engaged, they’re working hard at raising the funds we need to keep the Stupa safe! Truly, if it weren’t for Claire that Stupa would have been lost by now.
She’s been willing to travel back and forth to Sedona on her own in order to keep the team going and coordinate their efforts with those here.
Not only does she manage these two teams, which, by the way, have had some great fundraising success lately, she also endures the thankless job of managing their finances.
Claire wasn’t always so responsible, but she’s really grown up on this path.
May she continue to grow and deepen as she learns to bring increasing benefit to beings.
Cosmic Lover
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Eyes gaze, mind clear, nothing is seen.
He is beautiful, the Guru.
In the space between molecules non existent he appears,
I feel Him.
His regal stance, His tenderness, the gentle King of all Dharma,
The second one comes in image – again to my heart,
Oh Beloved, your face
Is the nectar I crave and cannot forget, the blessing I crave and hold.
If I cannot see you everywhere I will not see at all.
Yours are the eyes I gaze into, the sea in which I swim,
Never abandon any of your followers!
I offer body speach and mind
To touch the honey, sweetness only possessed by you.
I am yours life after life,
You who are the silence and ecstasy,
I follow you always, my heart..
Cosmic Lover, I am yours.
I will follow you and practice.
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Spaciousness
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Antidoting the Mantra of Samsara”
According to the Buddha’s teachings, that goal isn’t very far away. It doesn’t even have to be created. One doesn’t create enlightenment you see. Enlightenment cannot be created. The natural state cannot be brought closer or created or uncreated. It simply is not within the realm of that kind of activity. What must happen is we must purify or apply the antidote to certain conditioned responses that we are chronically and continually engaging in in order to develop a kind of spaciousness within our perception or our view, a kind of spaciousness within our mind by which we can truly awaken to the primordial wisdom nature. So what has to be done is very deep.
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