A Message from Her Eminence Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo Rinpoche:
“I wanted to share with you a little practice I do at night when I’m in bed getting ready to sleep. This is not instead of your practice. It is in addition to, before you go to sleep. But it does help you keep Samaya.
3 x Seven Line Prayers
3 x Vajra Guru Mantras
5 x HUNG HUNG HUNG HUNG HUNG
3 x OM AMI DEWA HRI OM AMI DEWA HRI OM AMI DEWA HRI
3 x OM BENZAR SATO HUNG OM BENZAR SATO HUNG OM BENZAR SATO HUNG
3 x OM MANI PEDME HUNG OM MANI PEDME HUNG OM MANI PEDME HUNG
3 x OM AH RA PA SA NA DI OM AH RA PA SA NA DI OM AH RA PA SA NA DI DI DI DI DI DI DI DI
SOHA
Just a little kiss to the Buddhas before you go to sleep.”
The koi know spring is springing! they are chowing down, eating veraciously the algae we have been trying to cut down for so long. they won’t get it all, but the interesting part is that they are eating, before the time they should actually be able to eat.
I think they’re getting ready for breeding time, which really is coming up soon. it all depends on weather conditions and water temperature. Last year our spawn happened at the end of April. Chat says a little later. Who knows? Chat knows! Ha ha!
This year we’re gonna do all our breeding and our spawning outside, and our medical care also. We have learned so much! The ones we tenderly cared for and spawned in my Lanai (my entire Lanai) have come to nothing. I don’t even know if there’s a survivor.
The ones we let happen outside have gotten strong and big. Duh. We’ve learned from Mother Nature. Dr. Brent says that’s how it is. They have to build strength in a natural environment. If they can’t make it in a natural environment they weren’t meant to make it. We have managed to harden some of the ones we kept inside. They are doing well though. but we are learning.
The koi are parading! OMG! The pod is in harmony! Dr. Brent said that. It’s like a little dance they do when everything is ok. Now they are all around, like they’re dancing.
The show was short but it was beautiful!
Wait, it is still continuing! I wish you could all see this on Youtube live! I don’t know why we don’t do that.
I hate it when people say there are reasons. They are not reasons. The are obstacles we have to break through.
The koi are actually most visible, most enchanting, at night when the lights are on. That’s why I want to have this online, so people can see them at night when they are the most beautiful. I want to make this all about the people that come to see them and the koi themselves.
This is a shot of the koi, in torpor, under the ice. This is under the ice. Jacob took this and I think he did a great job. It shows the majesty that they still have in the winter. So peaceful, energized by each other only. Not eating at all. I guess it’s a time of retreat for them, although half their brains are asleep. They barely function metabolically. Our job is to keep them safe and comfortable and we’re working very hard at it. Don’t forget them when you make a donation.
This prayer to Sangye Menla was offered by Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo at the time of the Covid Virus. It is a concise yet complete practice accessible to anyone. Khenpo Tenzin Karze recites the mantra throughout the video, thus, listeners gain the blessings of Medicine Buddha through perceiving his form, the sacred mantra in both Tibetan and English, and they are able to hear the sacred mantra. This prayer can be offered to any and all who are in need of healing, physically, mentally or emotionally, or simply used as a support for meditation.
Please join us daily on Facebook at 7pm for a LIVE group practice to offer this profound blessing with the power of praying together. Dedicate the effort to your loved ones, or yourself, or any cause that inspires you. And offer your prayer for the loved ones and causes that are also in need of healing and blessings.
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CONDENSED MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE
Instantly in the space in front, above, rises Medicine Buddha. He is blue in color with one face, two hands, holding a begging bowl and an arura, surrounded by all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
We are awed by his splendor and take refuge with body speech and mind.
Buddha Menla I take refuge in you in this and every life. Repeat 3 x
And then thinking with great compassion of all sentient beings:
recite:
For the sake of beings I give rise to the Bodhicitta so all may benefit. Repeat 3 x
Hold the mala, counting one bead for each recitation, and recite the mantra:
TAYATHA OM BEKADZE BEKADZE MAHA BEKADZE RADZA SAMUNGATE SWAHA
While reciting the mantra with compassion, I contemplate the extraordinary qualities of Medicine Buddha, and yearn for qualities and liberation in one life so I too may benefit beings.
The mind should be filled with wholesome yearning for sentient beings, all of them, every single one. Even animals. All beings.
After reciting at least one full mala of mantra recite:
I prostrate to Buddha Menla,
May I be reborn in his Pure Land
Able to give healing and refuge to all beings.
Then Menla and his entourage dissolve into light and pour into the crown of ones head and mixes like milk with water with one’s mind.
Recite:
May all sentient beings without exception be placed in that very state, and be healed.
The best thing to do is to make a commitment to do this practice every day. It is in the commitment and the doing that blessing comes. Along with the very sacred mantra and the blessings it holds, therein lies benefit and accomplishment.
This condensed prayer was composed by Her Eminence Jetsunma Ahkön Norbu Lhamo on March 27th, 2020 at the request of her student Thubten Samten Wangmo in order to bring benefit and healing during the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.
An offering from Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo for the holidays.
This can be a busy, sometimes stressful time. When you’re ready for a break, or just want to have something calming going in the background, enjoy the KPC koi pond in this relaxing 30 minute video.
In this video His Holiness Penor Rinpoche describes what inspired him to enthrone Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo, and offers heart advice to Western Dharma students.
After reaching enlightenment, the Buddha tried to teach what he had experienced. His first attempts were unsuccessful, since no one understood what he was saying. After seven weeks of meditation around Bodhgaya, Brahma and Indra, the worldly gods, begged Buddha to teach. At first, he taught mainly to five students: Kunshe, Kondeniya, Thathul, Lhangpa, Mingchen, and Zangden, as well as other beings of the 6 realms. When they experienced the teaching fully, he added a few more. Soon he had enough students so that when he taught a larger crowd, they could also experience what the Buddha was conveying. This process became the “Turning of the Dharma Wheel,” where all beings of all realms of existence were taught simultaneously in language understood in their realm. Understanding the merit of this accomplishment multiplies all activities on this day, whether positive or negative, 10 million times.
Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo offers a concise teaching on Kaliyuga, or the time of Degeneration predicted by the Buddhas. During this time events become more condensed, more conflicted, and non-virtue increases. Jetsunma, recognized and enthroned as a reincarnate Teacher by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in 1988, offers practical advice on how to turn these circumstances into opportunities to practice. How to utilize not only Buddhist Practice by ordinary kindness and decency as an antidote to this trend. Jetsunma guides us on how to apply this antidote in our everyday lives, becoming a part of the solution rather than surrendering to the problems. Whether you are a Buddhist, interested in Buddhism or simply want to help make this troubled world a better place, Jetsunma offers practical wisdom to guide us.
On the occasion of Saga Dawa Duchen, a holy day that commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death (parinirvana)of the Buddha, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo generously gifted each of her community of ordained nuns and monks with a new set of robes.
KPC’s resident Khenpo Tenzin Karze bestowed each set of robes on Jetsunma’s behalf and explained how the offering of clothing is auspicious for long life. He also gave a short teaching on the history and significance of Saga Dawa. To receive this gift from one’s root lama and on such a holy day is an immeasurable blessing.
