Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

The Nonvirtue of Lying

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From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (@jalpalyul) on November 1, 2010

Lies are the refuge of the ignorant and slothful. One cannot win with lies! If one is not truthful to oneself, there is no possibility of telling the truth to others.

Lying, especially about one’s spiritual accomplishment is a heinous crime according to Lord Buddha’s teaching. Lying to divide the Sangha is also root breakage.  Lying to harm another Dharma practitioner is a very strong non-virtue; like breaking Samaya. It will poison the Sangha, the Third Jewel.  Lies destroy the liar, not the victim, although they are cruel. The liar will reap their karma.

Once I had a student who lied destructively. She suffered terribly, when she came back and corrected non-virtue, she was then like the prodigal child – well loved, respected and reinstated.

It is taught that if one lies to destroy a practitioner the karmic result is:

1) A speech or face deformity resulting in the inability for pleasant speech

2) In a future life one will suffer hellish gossip oneself

3) One will never truly accomplish right or virtuous recitation. There is no mantra accomplishment.

To lie is to dishonor the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. And as representative of the Three Jewels, one brings shame to the Lama.

Another fault of lying is that others have great difficulty trusting again. This may seem ordinary, or not so bad. I have known people who are never trusted, since birth. This truly is tragic!

I have not taught like this to cause suffering. These teachings are Dharma and it is necessary to understand cause and effect; for the sake of those who have hopes of us; they wait and suffer for Bodhisattvas to arise with proper connections in order to be of benefit. One must develop good qualities!

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Peace for the Holidays?

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The wind has picked up and sky is overcast. Getting chilly, can feel the winter around the corner. Not long before the Holidays AGAIN – happens faster each year. Sigh…

I’ve always thought winter holidays are a study in impermanence. We anticipate, are excited, get busy, buy everything, decorate, cook, buy more, wrap, list, lust, eat and drink too much, put those bikes together,- did I say BUY?? Kids go crazy, families go insane and it all happens with the speed of light!

Then it is over. Kids have developed ADD, parents have PTSD, we are fat and broke, too many trees cut for the boxes and wrappping paper and it is OVER!

Then it’s time to clean up, put it all back, work out and eat celery and lettuce. And nobody knows why, except as ex-president Bush reminded us, our patriotic DUTY is to overspend for the sake of the economy.

Maybe we should re-examine and meditate and pray instead. It is good for you! And will last you a heck of a lot longer! Plus you are peaceful, and no PTSD!  Wouldn’t it be good not to get post-holiday blues?

The world needs more care and prayer than trees cut down; just something to think about, isn’t it?

Black Hole or Bardo?

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Perhaps Black Holes are Bardo entrances; and the finding that there are millions of mini-black holes indicate time /space possible reality junctions.

They are unlimited and each appearance is totally empty of self nature. Each appearance is space. Voidness. Yet naturally arising….Wouldn’t that be something? (Giggle LOL!) Or nothing…but it JUST might be…

The Freedom to Practice Dharma

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I hope you all will forgive me if I am not on top of my game.  Recently I have had a lot of hate and lies thrown at me. I am hurting, which should make them happy and gleeful, drunk with it.  My old nemesis is now making the balls and his new friend ryderjaphy is throwing them.  That is an old Italian saying BTW. :).

Evidently there are many who wish to do away with Tulkus entirely. (Yet they follow them) I cannot see the logic here. I cannot understand the addiction to war. War is THE ENEMY of humankind. It never solves problems, just causes pain and inflames the mind, so it gets more and more sick. Then the body fails. Can’t we see that? The sender and the receiver both suffer according to their awareness of the 3 doors.

Some delight in war and hate and feel puffed up by it.  War and hate are killers.  Lies are the messenger.  I have great pity for those who hate; I know the truth of cause and effect.  I have done so many Pho’was and see the bardo experience if the various different types.  Samaya breakers and haters of Dharma as it is handed teacher to student is the most hideous bardo of all.  As is claiming enlightenment where there is none.

These days everyone thinks they are as enlightened as Guru Padmasambava, or Lord Buddha. So they just change the laws and supports to suit their own taste. This is heinous, as we are taught. Only the truly realized write Dharma and make judgment calls from the wisdom mind. Like HH Dalai Lama, Kyabje HHPenor Rinpoche, Kyabje HH Dudjom Rinpoche, Kyabje HH Karmapa.

The ordinary jamoke with little accomplishment is free to think and have different opinions, but are NOT qualified to make crazy proclamations.

Just as Guru Padmasambava brought Dharma to Tibet, then Milarepa, and Tsonkapa added their wisdom- that IS Vajrayana – if changed you are making up your own religion. Fine by me – but there will be no result.

In any case those who wish to practice as tradition suggests, with Guru Yoga should not be molested as they do.  We are Americans and we are a Democracy.  Do your thing if it doesn’t cause suffering.  For the ones who wish to practice purely, exactly as taught, step by step and humble- LEAVE US ALONE.  We follow our Gurus and keep samaya; we dig out our poisons.

This is our pure and precious Path of Dharma. We want what our Lamas suffered bled and died for, walked over the Himilayas for. The METHOD to AWAKEN!

It is our right.  It is our remedy, we dedicate our lives to its preservation and are willing to die trying.  So demons do your worst.

WE ARE DHARMA IN THE WEST AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY! EH MA HO!

Can A Woman Give Empowerment?

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An Announcement from Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

I have some great news! When Lama Lobsang comes to KPC, he will teach me to give empowerment from Nam Cho Cycle!  This has been in the works for some time and I look forward to that. I will then travel more.  His Holiness Penor Rinpoche set this up before his Parinirvana, and I have the strong aspiration to fulfill HIS wishes! His Holiness Penor Rinpoche said, “What better source than Guru Rinpoche’s YUM?

I will give the Guru empowerments first. Then the Dakini! And then accomplish more. So exciting, when he comes I will begin the training. Paljor will help with translation. I will never be a speed-reader, though.

Buddha’s Sons and Daughters

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An excerpt from a teaching called How to Pray by Being by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

The monks and nuns who wear their robes are actually wearing the garment that Lord Buddha himself wore, in exactly the same way, with all the same little stitches in the same funny places. It’s all very complicated, but it all means something.

The robes keep us mindful that we are all the Buddha’s sons and daughters. When we wear the robes of the Buddha, we should not think that this is some sort of burden or that we are doing Buddha a favor or anything like that. We should think that these robes are like our own lifeblood. They protect us. They keep us mindful.

There is a difference between being in the world and wearing Lord Buddha’s clothing and being in the world in ordinary clothes. There is a difference in our mind. There is also difference in the response of other people toward us.

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Sang Wisdom

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Sang Wisdom to the Fire, “Warm me.” And he replied, “Breathe, Beloved,” for he knew her breath was fire too. So she did, and the cycle was complete.

Cried Wisdom to the fire, “Carry me.”  And he replied, “Sing, Beloved!”  For he knew that the sound of ecstasy was a song he had heard and never forgotten, once, and very soon again.  So she did. And the nectar of love filled the worlds.

Called Wisdom to the fire, “I cannot see you! Come to me!” And he replied, “Close your eyes, Beloved,” for he knew that Wisdom is innocent of time and space. So she did, and she remembered.

Thus the magical empowerment of the Divine Consorts was born again, and filled the worlds.

The sweetness tasted again of what has always been- ONE.

Written by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on Nov 1996

May blessings prevail!

The Immortal Swastika

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Dorje Lopon Ngawang Tenzin

The Immortal Swastika, a Long Life Prayer for

Jetsunma Ahkön Norbu Lhamo

OM SWASTI

May all be auspicious!

ORGYEN PEME JE ZUNG MENDARA

Mandarava the Dakini, nurtured by Guru Orgyen Pema Jungne

NYIG DU CHÖ MED DRO LA PHEN PA’I CHIR

To benefit beings of the degenerate times without Dharma,

GANG DÜL MI YI TSHÜL TÖN JE TSUN CHOG

Manifesting in ordinary human form to tame beings, Precious Jetsunma,

KU TSHE YÜN RING TSHO ZHE SÖL WA DEB

I pray that your life remains firm for a very long time.

TSA SUM GYAL WA GYATSHO’I THUG JE DANG

With the compassion of the infinite Buddhas and the Three Roots

DAG CHAG LHAG SAM NAM PAR DAG PA’I THÜ

And by the power of our pure and altruistic intention,

GÖN KHYED TEN DRO’I DZED THRIN THA GYE TE

Spreading the Dharma and enlightened activities for sentient beings in all corners, Savioress,

GÖN MED DRO WA’I PAL DU ZHAB TEN SHOG

May your lotus feet remain firm for the glory of helpless beings.

Connected with the karma of previous lifetimes with Jetsunma and rejoicing in her enlightened activities, this prayer is offered by the Bhutanese Vajra Master Ngawang Tenzin on the full moon day of the 7th lunar month of the Wood Male Monkey Year, August 30th, 2004.  Tashi delek!

 

Dorje Lopon Ngawang Tenzin and Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, 2004

What Are We?

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From a series of tweets by @jalpalyul on October 21, 2010

The wind is picking up. Funny, I know the Science of wind, but I still don’t know what it IS.  I know the Science of water, but still don’t understand it.

I feel the difference between hot and cold, yet it seems not a part of me. So who is ME?  The perception?  The molecules moving at variegated speeds and patterns?  What commonality between the warm and cool?  Space.  How can I perceive space as warm and cool?  What is perception?  Sight, smell, feel, etc, may have what we think are corresponding organs, yet they are also molecules floating in essentially empty space. Cool, warm, sight, sound.  What IS THIS and what are we?

Molecules, space, perception.  The first movement or absolute void nature.  Pristine is the display of Bodhicitta, the inherent luminousity that is the primal movement of pristine uncontrived emptiness.

OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA SIDDHI HUNG!

Goodnight all my Loves!

JAL

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

The Blessing of Tsog, the Ritual Food Feast

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An excerpt from a teaching called How to Pray by Being by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Tsog or the ganachakra feast is very important to us.  It’s a way to connect body, speech and mind, using body, speech and mind.  During tsog, we make physical offerings, we recite mantra and we keep our minds stable in the practice. So the ganachakra feast has these three levels of practice.

A ganachakra feast is a celebration, a kind of banquet to all of the Buddhas, bodhisattvas and precious gurus. But it is also taking the food into ourselves as a blessing in order to honor the Buddha nature that is within us. So our own internal guru, our own enlightened nature, experiences the ganachakra feast as well. Although for most of us our Buddha nature is pretty clouded over, during Tsog we acknowledge the presence of the Buddha seed within us. The purpose of Tsog and all practice is to clear the way, like cleaning the windows so the sunlight can come in.

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

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