Some people feel tired, blocked and frustrated, others zip around making irritating suggestions, and the kids are bouncing off the walls. Knock it off, everybody! This is a great day to tend to your own activities and let others tend to theirs, with no mixing of agendas. The problem is Jupiter in Libra’s wish to do everything with a partner. Not now! James Russell Lowell said, “Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” Today individual activity is the answer to everything: take some private time and you’ll come away happy with yourself, others and the world.
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The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo given on Saga Dawa 2016
The great Bodhicitta permeates everything. It is our true nature. It is up to us to activate it in the same way in order to wake up the deities inside.
How do you do that? You practice the Bodhicitta. It doesn’t come naturally to most people. You have to practice it. A very new student that I had once came up to me and said, “I don’t have any Bodhicitta,” and I said, “Well, make some.” Practice. You have to practice. You have to understand that you are the same nature as the person that you may have bad feelings about. We are not different. We are intimately connected and we are actually in the same place. You appear to be over there when, in fact, you are in here. I appear to be up here when I am in your heart, too. There’s no reason for us to act as we do and make the world worse. There’s no reason for that because we are the same. The great Bodhicitta that emanated from seemingly nothing is empty, and yet it is the nature of everything. It is your seed nature. The Buddha seed that is within you is Bodhicitta. There’s no reason why any of you cannot accomplish the Dharma. You are the Dharma. We are all Dharma inside. We only have to wake it up. There’s nothing we can do to make Dharma appear where it is not. It has to be where it is, and it is within our minds and our hearts. The Bodhicitta first emerged, and then everything came from that. Everything. I’m seeing all the different forms in the world, and when I see them I know that they are not separate from me. They are not separate from you.
We have to learn that it’s different than what we see because the five senses are liars. They will deceive you. They tell us what our consciousness believes to be true, and our consciousness is born in samsara. The tools that we use to tell us definitely that this is five feet long, definitely this is that high, definitely this is definitely that, are lying to us. You can’t believe them. You have to believe what you see in your deepest nature and that’s comes through practice. It’s the only way you can see it. Sometimes I look at peoples’ bodies and I can see if they are sick or not, and where they are sick. I did that yesterday and I was 100% correct. I’m not bragging. It’s not like that. It’s that we all have this kind of vision if we practice. We all do. The root of it is Bodhicitta. That view, that understanding, is Bodhicitta. We have to doubt the tools that we use to learn things because they come from samsaric minds. The only things you can’t doubt are the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Their wisdom is what it is. Yes, they may have five senses too, but their five senses have been tamed and awakened. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas see differently. We could do that too, but it takes a lot of contemplation and practice. You have to doubt your own eyes. If you could see with pure view, you would see dimensions sliding across and around each other. You could see how they are related to each other. You can see one person disappearing here and then reappearing in another dimension. Once the senses are purified, you can see that, but with ordinary senses we don’t really see, we just make up things. We have to tame our senses and bring them in harmony with Dharma so that they can awaken.
Contemplation is good. Don’t believe in what you see automatically, but look deeper. You can’t be so shallow in your practice. You have to understand it’s not what you’re seeing. I hope this makes some sense. Whatever deity you practice, he or she lives within you—every deity that you practice—and you live within him or her. This is why we practice the deities. To wake up.
Things seem blocked, every new idea is shot down and Mercury is retrograde. So why is everyone so happy? Jupiter just entered Libra, that’s why! People are able to find the good in everything! Is the house in foreclosure? You’ve been wanting to move! Tv on the fritz? More time for reading! Gigantic sinkhole in the backyard: a swimming pool! Relentlessly upbeat prognostications are fun and take the edge off the opposite. Anonymous said, “When you’re walking on thin ice, you may as well dance!” Be aware that the current situation will change but the cheerfulness will remain. What’s good today? Enduring love relationships, health, and the joy of happiness.
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The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo given on Saga Dawa 2016:
Would we ever be able to get to another galaxy? I don’t think so. Because we think the galaxy is far away and it’s not. It’s not. As long as we think it’s far away, we’ll never get there. If we look at a star and we think, ‘Oh, that’s a star over there’, we don’t understand that not only is the star within us, but we are within the star. There is nothing separate. Nothing. It’s very difficult to understand. When we try to understand it, we try to understand it with our ordinary minds, and we can’t. No matter how hard we try.
The ticket is we have to wake up in our practice and, in doing that, wake up the deities within. When that occurs, we’ll understand that we are not separate and that the different dimensions not only connect with each other, but they are within each other. That’s why sometimes I can see things from other dimensions, because they aren’t somewhere else. They are layered together. These dimensions are not only connecting, they are in the same place. Nothing is separate from you. It’s hard to learn that and hold that in our minds in a strong way. Instead we are not kind to each other. We think negatively, and things like that. In fact, we are the same nature. We are the same nature. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a car. Out of the corner of my other eye, I see the corner of a building. Then I don’t see it anymore. I’m not schizophrenic. This is just the way I see. I know that these are different dimensions, but they are in the same place. You can’t even say in the same place because that indicates that everything is solid, and it’s not.
Your brain tells you it’s time to work but your emotions encourage you jump the fence and find freedom, making for a bewildering day. It’s possible to satisfy both drives by doing them one at a time: work, relax, then work, then relax. Stress comes from trying to rush through things or from taking on too much. Slow and steady does it. Avoid discussions of philosophy and politics, and don’t think you know how others feel. Julius Caesar said, “What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.” What’s good today? A last minute push at work, happy partnership, and the ability to distinguish between true and false friendship.
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The following is an excerpt from a teaching given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on Saga Dawa May 22, 2016:
I want to talk about the emanation of primordial wisdom: How it occurs, what is occurring. I want to talk about things that are not scholarly, but that I know with my own mind.
There’s neither emptiness nor fullness, and there are both. The primordial wisdom nature emanates from the emptiness nature. Bodhicitta is how it happens.
I would like to explain a couple of things: In your subtle body, there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and deities in union, all over your body, everywhere. Inside, that is what you are. It’s hard to understand because we can’t see it that way, but our nature is pure luminosity. On one hand, we have all these deities within us, and they are either asleep or awake. If you don’t practice, they are asleep. If you accomplish some practice, they are awake.That’s what brings you closer to enlightenment. On the other hand, we are also within the bodies of the deities. It goes both ways. If we see, for instance, Mother Tara in a picture, it looks like Mother Tara is out there, that she’s someplace else. In fact, She is in you and you are in Her. It’s like that with any of the deities that you see. They are in you and you are in them. There’s no space between any of us.
Have you seen some of the new science programs on TV where they show that dimensions are really in the same place? Well, it’s true. There is no difference. It seems now we are separate from each other, but in fact we are not. It seems that the deities are separate from us, but, in fact, they never are. It is up to us to wake up and study that, contemplate that, and see it carefully.
Where are the stars and the suns that we see in the sky? Where are they? Will we ever get to them? I know we’ve already gotten to Mars, and we’ve sent some rockets and things to different planets and meteors and comets. We’ve sent all kinds of things and they have evidently landed somewhere. That’s really interesting, but these planets and things that we look at in the sky are not separate from us either, nor are we separate from them. They are in us and we are in them. It’s all the same. It’s important to understand that because these eyes, these five senses, are flawed. They tell us what our samsaric mind tells us. They report what they see and we interpret it; but it’s not correct because here we are looking separate from each other.
When we study, we need to understand that nothing is separate from us, and we are not separate from any of the deities, any of the beings, that we study. It’s all one whole, but it is not solid. It’s empty. In fact, it looks like there couldn’t possibly be any more room. It looks like we have no space, and then we do have space. It goes both ways. Sometimes I can see this myself. I see dimensions hit each other. If we had the understanding, if we had recognition, there’s no reason why we couldn’t put our hands and our beings into another dimension, the way the great masters do, and come to know the different celestial palaces and different worlds as being the same as us.
If you’re due for a promotion, today’s the day! Accept recognition of a job well done but avoid the tendency to tack on complaints during the moment, creating confusion. (“I’ve worked like a dog and
we’re always out of toilet paper! Is that right?”) Virgo planets love to make mountains out of molehills and you’ll want to today: stifle yourself. Be aware that a significant task is in the final
stages of completion-something you’ve spent the past year tending to- after which a change in direction comes. Be ready. Richard Hooker said, “Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.” Love is great, partnership is wonderful and things are stabilizing.
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The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “The Bodhisattva Ideal”
If you think about the food that we eat, you think, oh well, once you’ve eaten the food, it’s part of you and it’s nourishing. You forgot the rest of the story. Don’t you remember what happens to food after a few hours? Food changes. When you eat big chocolate cake… Or what would you like to eat? Let’s see, what are we having today? I would like to have chocolate mousse. How about that? So I’m going to eat my chocolate mousse and “yum yum yum” it’s so good. And you think, “Oh this chocolate mousse is really spectacular! I don’t have to share it with anybody. There’s nobody in the room, and I can eat the whole mousse myself. Well, chocolate mousse! I can eat the whole chocolate mousse myself and don’t have to share it with anybody. Nobody is looking, I can even lick that [bowl]., You know, I can really enjoy this and I don’t have to give it away. And once I eat it, it is mine! No one can demand it back. Except that, after a few hours it seems to exit the body. And before it does, it creates some minor distresses on the way down. That delicious experience with one’s food, even assuming the food was not chocolate mousse , but something nourishing from which you might receive benefit and energy, ultimately is impermanent. Even the condition of taking in nourishment is impermanent because, after having taken in nourishment, then even the most delicious food results in waste. And what is good in the food we use to make energy and the energy is expended.
So everything that we know and understand in our life experience is changing. You are not the same person that you were seven years ago. Everything about you has changed. Literally the cells in your body have changed and been reborn with very few exceptions. There are some cells in the human body that do not change that quickly, but the majority of cells change every seven years. Quite remarkable! It’s really interesting to wonder, to ask ourselves, why is it then that we maintain physical scars from when you’re younger? Isn’t that odd? I mean, if we constantly create new cells and they are changed every seven years, what’s that [scar] doing there? I fell on a piece of glass and wire when I was a little girl playing in a vacant lot and cut my arm right there. Why is that still there? I was a little girl when it happened. I’ve changed many times over. It’s because we do not understand impermanence.
Business deals prosper and hidden forces improve the field of activity today. Medicine is effective and creativity is favored. Protectors ensure that things go smoothly, the way yard monitors allow children to play nicely during recess. Not exactly law enforcement, but with enough clout to guarantee safety. Clement Attlee said, “If you have a good dog, you don’t need to bark yourself.” An old love is returning, employees are successfully climbing the career ladder and health is improving. Keep a watchful eye on outside forces looking to destabilize things, and let the dog do the barking.
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A perfect square between Saturn and Neptune advises relaxation and couch time. Escapism derails productivity today, so go with the flow. Beer with the buddies? Stay off the road and avoid the trouble Neptune can bring. Now that you’re being careful, go ahead and enjoy the day. Partnership is excellent, powerful figures are steadily growing more capable and people are modifying their behavior for the better. Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Live up to your position in life! Expect improvement in health, partnership and peaceful feelings, unless you go out and cause trouble!
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