A sacred space for everyone
9/30/2020 Wednesday by Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Moving on from difficulty
Although times remain difficult the winds of change are blowing. Tensions and disagreements are less combustible. Insights and clear communication in relationships help clear the air. Being willing to take responsibility for one’s actions brings more productive outcomes. All we need is confidence.~Charlie Brown
The following is an invitation from Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
We have invited the Colossus Of New York here to celebrate our diversity, everyone is welcome here.
Please visit. I know you can’t come in but please come by. She is 15.5 feet tall – you don’t even have to get out of your car. She is wondrous to me. It’s almost like you can hear her breath!
Stay Lady, stay! Please protect us!
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9/29/2020 Tuesday by Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Waking up from the dream
Today reality boundaries are more blurry and there can be a soft dreaminess to the day making it hard to get clarity on some issues. It’s a good day for spiritual practice and connecting with your heart. You have the opportunity to heal a lack of self-confidence at this time. An unexpected event can bring a beneficial outcome today. …instead of holding our own individual territory and defending it tooth and nail, … become open to the world that we are living in.~Chogyam Trungpa
9/28/2020 Monday by Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Forward movement
Saturn and Jupiter are no longer retrograde. There is now forward movement in areas that previously seemed difficult to change. The grip of power is loosening. With the Moon moving into Pisces opposite Venus emotional connections, and the ability to reach out to others is stronger. Continue to be mindful, but courageous, when communicating. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.~Martin Luther King Jr.
Today the Moon is Void of Course from 3.18 am EST USA until 11.34 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.
9/27/2020 Sunday by Jampal & Wangmo
Theme: Deep Thinking
We are all more inclined to get to the bottom of issues for the next month. This is the time to enjoy the process of looking for answers. With Mercury going retrograde in 18 days, that will be a prime time for research, not for starting new projects. The next few days favors being able to connect well in all forms of partnership. An individual can make a change, but a team can make a revolution. ~ Amit Kalantri
9/26/2020 Saturday by Jampal & Wangmo
Theme: Harmony and Change
We feel more harmony within ourselves today, and continue to look for it in our relationships. We struggle with wanting compulsive control over others for a couple more days. With the Moon in Aquarius, we look to make progressive changes in the world, and tend to intellectualize our feelings. A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Today the moon is void of course until 2:09 am EDT USA. If you are in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or sign contracts during this time.
The following is the latest episode in the Podcast Buddhism For Beginners:
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo not only explains the logic of the equality of all beings, she takes us through various ways to experience our sameness. For more teachings and resources visit Tara.org
9/25/2020 Friday by Jampal & Wangmo
Theme: Expand, Dive, and Isolate
Today is an emotional rollercoaster ride. We start out with a generous and expansive mindset. Then at midday, we are probing deeply into our own and others psyches. Finally, we will want to withdraw from others as we experience the negative side of our mind. Meditation, prayer and altruistic intention can help us stabalize throughout this day. We have to develop the habit of putting some spaciousness into our mind in order to accomplish spaciousness at the time of our death. ~ Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo
Today the moon is void of course from 11:37 pm EDT USA until 2:09 am, the next day . If you are in another country check what that means for you time-wise. It’s best to avoid making major decisions or sign contracts during this time.
From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo originally published in 2011:
Hello to all! Have any of you noticed I talk about the movie Avatar sometimes? I’ve watched it in director’s cut (wow!) Prolly 15 times. This movie, about the planet and people of a fictional (?) Planet named Pandora. The people are “indigenous humanoids” called the “Na’vi” and are truly breathtaking in their appearance and their ways. Their planet is lush and green. Their water is pristine. Their culture is noble.
Their goddess is Eywa, “Great Mother.” They make ceremony to become non-dual with her at maturity. They depend on Her for all and since the planet is virginal and healthy She delivers. Our Earth must have been that healthy before we began living out of harmony with her. Hurting torturing and raping Her. Our Earth is quite ill. We hurt our Mother and her children mindlessly. How do we expect the Earth to provide?
The Na’vi people have a beautiful prayer at the time of hunting, and a human death. I can’t say it perfectly but it is like this, for hunt – I cry every time I hear it. “I see you, my brother and I thank you for your life. Now your body will feed and become part of the Na’vi. Your spirit will return to and be one with Eywa. Ah HO. During the feast the animal is cherished, and known. How achingly beautiful, please try to see this movie and take it to heart. It shows us what we do as disconnected humans and where we went off.
Hopi teach there are two paths, basically. One is the “White Path,” where we left and do not know our Mother. We build machines to chew her up. We rip her flesh. Then there is the “Red Path” which never leaves the “way of connection.” The people live in harmony with Mother Earth’s way. We do not dominate her, we listen to her wisdom and live in harmony. It may be too late, as She has been poisoned. We would have to grow up and evolve out of the “I’m number one” idea into “we are life and this is our only planet” idea. We’d have to “see” each other truly. When the Na’vi meet each other they say with a gesture of touching head and heart and saying “I see you.” And it means really see – who and what you are.
I’d give my life if only we could be natural again. Respect and love again. Heal our Mother. I’d give it in a “New York” minute. I am currently trying to restore steep land, clear cut. It is already registered as sanctuary, and I want to give the wild beings their space back. Restore the natural land to food and shelter. This is my deep prayer:
Mother Goddess Earth, holy mother Tara, grant the blessing that I may have help and strength to provide for your babies, and grant blessings that I may give this little broken place back to you, whole and healed. KYE HO!
Hear this cry and accept these tears from a Dakini who is your daughter, your servant and your lover. May you recover, and may those who see “The Way” join hands as one people. Let us pay it forward. Eh Ma Ho!
OM MANI PEDME HUNG! OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA!
PS. Once I was led to Hopi land and found prophesy rock. Behind it climbing down, I saw a place of offerings. I made an offering, then found a perfect green valley, so lush in the desert. I saw light beings there. Working the Earth. Water. I never found it again, though I looked.
When I met with Hopi Elders, Grandfather David was still alive. I told the Grandfathers and Mothers what I’d found. Grandfather David said only people of pure intention could ever find these places. He then said “you are welcome to go to any place in Hopi land you wish.” Then a beautiful Grandmother jumped up and rattled as she spoke to me. “You must never abandon the Red Road!” With deep eyes and blazing heart. I see you, my Mother!
May I never disappoint you, and all beings!
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9/24/2020 Thursday by Wangmo & Jampal
Theme: Kindness
Being in the posture of openness enables the possible.Today your heart is more open. It’s a day of mindful communication: talking and corresponding can produce combativeness and reactivity. For the next few days you seek to accomplish practical tasks and outcomes. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.~Ralph Waldo Emerson