The following talk was recorded during Jetsunma’s birthday celebration on October 12, 2018 at Kunzang Palyul Choling
Astrology for 10/13/2018
10/13/2018 Saturday by Jampal & Wangmo
Theme: Challenges to discernment
The inner and outer realities are at odds today. Your intuition may not serve you well. It’s a good day for spiritual practice and inner activity rather than focusing your energies on worldly activities. There is a tendency to be argumentative so it’s good to have an alternative outlet such as exercise. The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.~Neil deGrasse Tyson
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 8.59 pm EDST USA until 3.18 pm the next day. 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.
Life And Liberation Of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
༈རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་ཨ་ཁམ་ལྷ་མོ།
རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མའི་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲུལ་བ་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཤ་ཚུགས་སུ་བྱོན་པ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་ཨ་ཁམ་ལྷ་མོ་ནི། མདོ་ཁམས་བུ་འབོར་གང་གི་ཆར་གཏོགས་པ་དཔལ་ཡུལ་ཨ་མཆོག་གྲོ་ལྷས་ཞེས་པ་སའི་དགེ་བཅུ་ཚང་བའི་ཡུལ་དུ་ཡབ་རིགས་རུས་ཀྱི་མངོན་པར་མཐོ་བ་དམུ་ཚ་སྒའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དང། ཡུམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་གུ་རུ་མཚོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་སྲས་མོར་བོད་རབ་བྱུང་༡༡་པའི་དཀྱིལ་སྨད་ཙམ་དང་སྤྱི་ལོ་དུས་རབས་༡༧་པའི་སྨད་ཙམ་དུ་ངོ་མཚར་བའི་ལྟས་དུ་མ་དང་བཅས་ཏེ་རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་ཀུན་བཟང་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་གཅུང་མོ་ཆུང་བར་སྐུ་འཁྲུངས་ཤིང་། སྐུ་ན་ཆུང་དུས་ནས་ཡི་གེ་འབྲི་ཀློག་སོགས་བསླབ་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཚེགས་མེད་པ་མཁྱེན་པ་བྱུང་། རིག་འཛིན་ཀུན་བཟང་ཤེས་རབ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་སྔ་གཞུག་རྣམས་སུ་གཏེར་སྟོན་ཆེན་པོ་མི་འགྱུར་རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་། ཅོག་རོ་ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱི་ཟློས་གར་མཁས་གྲུབ་ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གཙོས་མཁས་ཤིང་གྲུབ་པ་བརྙེས་པའི་སྐྱེས་ཆེན་དུ་མའི་ཞབས་རྡུལ་སྤྱི་བོར་བླངས་ནས་མདོ་རྒྱུད་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་རབ་འབྱམས་ལ་ཐོས་བསམ་གྱིས་སྒྲོ་འདོགས་ལེགས་པར་བཅད་དེ། གནས་ངེས་མེད་རྣམས་སུ་བྱོན་ནས་སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་ལ་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གཞོལ་བར་མཛད་ནས་ལྷག་པའི་ལྷ་རབ་འབྱམས་ཀྱི་ཞལ་གཟིགས་ཤིང་ལུང་བསྟན་དུ་མ་ཐོབ། འདིར་སྣང་གི་འཁྲུལ་པ་ཀ་དག་སྤྲོས་བྲལ་གྱི་དབྱིངས་སུ་རང་སར་དག་ནས་ཆོས་སྐུ་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་ཐབས་ལ་མངའ་དབང་འབྱོར་ཞིང་། དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་གི་ཤར་ཐད་ཀྱི་རི་སུལ་དུ་བཞུགས་ཏེ། བཙུན་མའི་འཁོར་སློབ་མང་དུ་འདུས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་བར་མེད་དུ་བསྐོར་བར་མཛད་ཅིང་རིམ་གྱིས་དགོན་སྡེ་ཆགས་པས་ཇོ་དགོན་གདོང་ཞེས་པའི་མཚན་དང་། ན་བཟའ་དམར་པོ་མནབ་པའི་ཨ་ནེ་ཇོ་མོས་གང་བས་གྲོང་དམར་སྟེང་ཞེས་མིང་དེ་དག་དེ་ནས་ཐོགས་པར་བྱུང་། མདོར་ན་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་འདི་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་གོ་ནས་འཁོར་གདུལ་བྱ་དུ་མ་བསྐྱངས་ཏེ། མཁས་གྲུབ་གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་གོ་འཕང་ལ་མངའ་དབང་འབྱོར་བའི་འཁོར་དུ་མ་སྨིན་པར་མཛད་ཅིང་། ཞིང་འདིའི་གདུལ་བྱ་དེ་ཙམ་གཟིགས་ནས། མཐར་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཞི་བའི་དབྱིངས་སུ་གཤེགས་ནས་གདུང་ཞུགས་ལ་འབུལ་སྐབས་དབུ་ཐོད་ནམ་མཁར་ཡར་ནས་སྔར་རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོའི་ཆོས་གསུང་ཡུལ་གྱི་ཆོས་ཁྲི་སྟེང་གི་སྤང་ཁར་བབས་པས། དེ་ཕྱིན་ཆད་དམ་པའི་སྐྱེས་ཆེན་དག་གི་སྐུ་གདུང་ཞུགས་འབུལ་བྱ་ཡུལ་དང་དུར་གླིང་དུ་གྱུར། དབུ་ཐོད་དེ་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་བྱིན་འབེབས་སྐབས་ཐོད་གཡབ་མཛད་ཅིང་ད་ལྟ་ཡང་བཞུགས་ཤིང་། ཁོང་གྱི་རྣམ་འཕྲུལ་བག་ཆགས་སད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་མ་ཞིག་ད་ལྟ་ཨ་རིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཏུ་འཁྲུངས་ཡོད་པར་ཐོས་སོ།།
Jetsunma Ah Kham Lhamo
Birth
Ah Kham Lhamo, the emanation of Noble Tara, the mother of all Buddhas, took the form of a human being, in Palyul Achog Dro Lhae, a province of Dokham Bubor Gang, the land with complete signs of the ten virtues. Her father, Dorjee, was from the noble family of Mutsa Ga, and her mother, Guru Tsho, was a Wisdom Dakini. She was born just after the second half of the 11th Rabjung cycle, which is around the end of the 17th century. At her birth, there were many amazing signs. She was the younger sister of Rigzin Kunzang Sherab.
Education
At a very early age, she was able to master reading and writing without any difficulties. On many occasions she accompanied Kunzang Sherab, to receive teachings from the Great Terton Migyur Dorjee, Karma Chagmed (who was the emanation of Chokro Luyi Gyeltshen), and many other great accomplished scholars and mahasiddhas of that time. Under their guidance she mastered the sutras and the tantras–especially the infinite tantras–and cleared any misunderstanding of them, with her wisdom of hearing and wisdom of contemplation.
Practices and retreats
Then she wandered in many sacred places and practiced with single-pointed perseverance. She had the visions of unfathomable deities and received many revelations from them. She purified the delusion of ordinary perception into the expanse of the primordially pure state, free of all elaborations, and gained mastery over the kingdom of Dharmakaya Samantabadra.
Benefiting Beings
She resided on the hill to the east of Palyul Namgyal Jangchub Choling where she constantly turned the Wheel of Dharma to her disciples of nuns. Gradually, it became a nunnery and was called Jo Gon Dong. Because the place was filled with nuns in their maroon robes, it was also called Upper Red Village. Thus the place got its names.
Conclusion
In brief, Jetsunma cared for and benefited countless beings to be tamed by the wheel of teachings and practices. She ripened the minds of her followers, and many became great scholars and accomplished practitioners.
Finally, seeing that her benevolent activities had come to an end, she entered the peaceful state of dharmadhatu. When her holy body was cremated, her skull jumped up in the sky and fell on the throne that Rigzin Kunzang Sherab used to give teachings. This site later became the cremation ground of the holy lamas.
The skull was used to invoke the blessings of the deities during the Drubchen practices. It is still with us.
I have heard that her emanation, a lady with fortunate karma, who had awakened in the experience of the past, has been born in America.
This is the life and liberation of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, from the History of the Palyul Lineage written by Tulku Thubten Palzang.
Astrology for 10/12/2018
10/12/2018 Friday by Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Creating with depth
With the planet of relationships, Venus, close to the planet of communication, Mercury, the arts and diplomacy are enhanced for the next week. As these planets remain in the sign of Scorpio there continues to be an intensity in communication with others. With the Moon in Sagittarius there is an openness and willingness to explore new horizons and philosophies. It is within the nature to reveal to ourselves the place that is beyond conceptualization, underneath conceptualization, like the crystal under the dust.~Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 7.13 pm ESDT USA the day before until 5.54 am. 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 Fourfold Prayer For Sentient Beings
The following prayer is from the Nam Cho Ngondro, The Great Perfection Buddha in the Palm of Hand
MA NAM KHA DANG NYAM PA’I SEM CHEN THAM CHED
I pray that all motherly sentient beings, countless as space,
LAMA SANGYE CHÖ KYI KU LA SÖL WA DEB SO
May realize the Guru’s Dharmakaya Buddha Body.
MA NAM KHA DANG NYAM PA’I SEM CHEN THAM CHED
I pray that all motherly sentient beings, countless as space,
LAMA DE CHEN LONG CHÖD DZOG PA’I KU LA SÖL
WA DEB SO
May realize the Guru’s Great Bliss Sambhogakaya Body.
MA NAM KHA DANG NYAM PA’I SEM CHEN THAM CHED
I pray that all motherly sentient beings, countless as space,
LAMA THUG JE TRUL PA’I KU LA SÖL WA DEB SO
May realize the Guru’s Great Bliss Nirmanakaya Body
MA NAM KHA DANG NYAM PA’I SEM CHEN THAM CHED
I pray that all motherly sentient beings, countless as space,
Astrology for 10/11/2018
10/11/2018 Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Challenges and expansion
With sense of purpose, Sun in challenging aspect to the planet of power and regeneration, it is a testing time from forces within yourself and from others. You may be asked to account for your actions today. Conversely, in the emotional arena there is a positive flow of energy that enables more generosity and compassion. Your intuition is stronger today and new understandings can occur. The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.~Bertrand Russell
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 7:13pm EDST USA until 5.54 am the next day. 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.
Astrology for 10/10/2018
10/10/2018 Wednesday by Jampal
Theme: Penetrating insights
As Mercury enters Scorpio for a few weeks there is a focus on uncovering the truth, investigation and communication with passion. In addition there are three other planets in Scorpio today including the Moon bringing an emotional intensity to interactions. There are unpredictable consequences arising from communication. There is energy available to create new structures. Like a beautiful flower, brightly colored and with scent, so are well-spoken words fruitful when carried out.~Dhammapada
Astrology for 10/09/2018
10/09/2018 Tuesday by Jampal & Wangmo
Theme: Compulsiveness
There is harmony between the Sun and Moon today but the challenge comes from Pluto in difficult aspect. This can manifest as compulsions, obsessions and power struggles. The remedy is self-awareness. Communication challenges are coming to a head. This is still a good time to initiate change. Whenever you’re about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question:What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I’m about to criticize?~Marcus Aurelius
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 4.51 am EST USA until 12.10 am the next day. 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.
Understanding The Poison
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Hate is a poison no one should drink. Or give to anyone else. If you have it unrepaired it will ruin your life. No one should tolerate hate in their minds or activities. It is the basis of war and crime. It is the downfall of nations and lives. It is a terrible cause with a terrible result. It is death and sorrow. No one benefits.
It is so common we think it is natural and normal. It is in fact not even reasonable as we are of the same nature, field of being. So hate ripples out to all. Everyone gets hurt.
For instance, now, in modern music there is so much name calling, self preening, body part naming, (everyone is a ho, a c— a d—: sick!) We are no longer actually listening to music, we are listening to hate. We trash our minds with low life reading and writing. We could be so much better- do so much more. We don’t even try. We think it stylish to be trashy. We don’t even place any value on wholesome cognition. If we did, personal issues could be used to study the path and develop enlightened qualities. Too bad – because we can all awaken to Buddhahood. We are that.
May whatever merit I have ever gathered and all I and my students have ever done as well, be dedicated to the liberation and salvation of all!
Copyright © Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo. All rights reserved
Astrology for 10/08/2018
10/08/2018 Monday by Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Testing relationships
The relational energy of Venus is challenged by the assertive energy of Mars. This brings a lot of energy into relationships and will highlight any problems. This is another Libra Day with four planetary bodies in this sign. One aspect of Libra energy is seeking harmony and peace. With the new Moon this is a good day to start projects. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.~Jimi Hendrix