The following is a full length video teaching offered by Stupa Master Tulku Sang Ngag Rinpoche at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Teachers
Compassionate Blessings: A Dialog
The following is from a twitter dialog between Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo and one of her followers:
Stupas cost about $150K -200K to build including the required Stupa Master. It boggles that people with that kind of money don’t support Stupa building for peace, to pacify suffering, sickness and old age, delay death, pacify war and hunger, and balance the planet. That’s why we should build Stupas.
(Jetsunma asks follower how he is doing.)
Follower: Happy as a clam and fit as a fiddle, lovely one. Your pretty little self?
Jetsunma: Not too shabby even though I had a hopeful ring appraised to build a Stupa. It was a total flat out fake. Gotta fund raise. Fund raising is kind of embarrassing, but its for an excellent reason. We’ll figure it out. Stupas are worth it. If there was anything else worth it I’d give it up in a heartbeat.
Follower: Well, it could be argued that raising the funds for those in need takes precedent, which is, to an extent true.
Jetsunma: I have built Stupas already, over 30, want to build them anywhere there is suffering and hardship or war.
Follower: Good for you, angel. I’m not suggesting you shouldn’t. I spend part of my time raising money to keep a 13th century building up.
Jetsunma: To me and mine this is the best way to give to all, blessings bring result. What kind of blessing? For example, a tumor dissolves, and no money for medical costs. It’s a “vibrational” blessing, sphere of truth. Love. Like a Buddha.
Follower: What about the poor and needy? If only life where black and white, eh?
Jetsunma: And you are right. Its not black or white: compassion. And we do a food bank, animal rescue, we work for the benefit of all. Here’s a teaching offered by a Master Stupa builder on the blessings they bring https://www.tibetanbuddhistaltar.org/the-merit-of-stupa-building/. Thing is you can argue and such but this is what I do, charity and benefit are my reason for being.
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Precious Jewels
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
If someone gave you a very expensive piece of old jewelry what would you do with it? I’d build another stupa. A gift to the earth and all beings.
Why wear something so valuable when it can benefit beings? It will bless everything and anyone for atleast 100 miles in all directions. Of course we can raise money. But if this ring is real, I wish to pay for it all myself. I pray it is real so I have the privilege to help beings.
When the time comes we will ask for volunteers and I hope many will use this tremendous opportunity to gather merit and clear non-virtue.
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Heart Son of Palyul: His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Shortly before Kyabje His Holiness Penor Rinpoche had His Parinirvana, He watched me watching His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche. His Holiness gave me a deep look and said “He is better than me. ”
It must be true. Tsawei Lama said it. The more I read and pray I know it’s true. I cannot explain the gifts I’ve been given.
His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche is the inheritor, and the two other heart sons are supports. His Eminence MugsangRinpoche is for America.
OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA SIDDHI HUNG!
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The Power of Stupas 2: Tulku Sang Ngag Rinpoche (VIDEO)
The following teaching by Tulku Sang Ngag Rinpoche was recorded live at Kunzang Palyul Choling in Maryland:
Pilgrimage and Blessings: Paying it Forward
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
KPC and it’s stupas are an excellent pilgrimage. Someday we will have meditation huts for those that attend Palyul summer program in N.Y. who seek a place to practice the rest of the year. We will start with camping. And it’ll be rough. Pilgrimages are supposed to be! It will take time, as does everything we want quickly.
We need volunteers to clear land. I hope to have retreat camps near the stupas for all serious practioners all year.
When we run dry spiritually, intense practice and pilgrimage to Holy places are especially helpful. As are teachings and empowerments.
Don’t deny your spiritual requirements. Take care of business -say- family, then take care with your path. And pay it forward. Always pay it forward….
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Heart Teaching by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche: YouTube Video
The following is a video teaching given by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche at Palyul Ling New York Retreat in 2005:
A Dog Story
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Haven’t been on today, I had to concentrate on my Grandoggie. She has been lonely for friends (she has a good mom) and we’ll do day care. It’s important to introduce new friends correctly. They are all the same size and non-aggressive. I had her with me and the elders earlier, and with the youngers with me later.
She (Macy) is Shi Tsu, six years old.
Works with the elders as Pekes live longer. Macy is a good girl and wants to play with the youngers. Alas, they cannot show her “the way” and the elders will. Kindly. They are a successful pack.
Dolly, who knows she is a peach, cried. She has been working the ladder through sweetness and light. And now a new bitch shows up. Stinks.
No worries, though Mom, Lelah , and Jada are watching out.
Sweet Intention
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Sensitive people should protect themselves, not become hard and mean. We are all sensitive at the core.
We grieve for the feel of love, and yet we all avoid love with responsibility, just live fast? Doesn’t work.
At this time, in my Sangha, people are dying, and people are popping awake. How? Who are you?
How hideous the dying part. How real the life, and joyful.
Waxing poetic here, still, this is Dharma thought. We bare joy and pain, and we can only control them with love. Dear sweet intention, Bodhicitta will save us all.
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Disrespecting Other Religious Philosophies: The Sixth Root Downfall
The following is respectfully quoted from “Perfect Conduct” with commentary by Dudjom Rinpoche:
4.b.3(b.6) Disrespecting other religious philosophies and doctrines:
The sixth is criticizing the philosophical doctrines of heretics searching for a path, šravakas and pratyekas on the path, and the great path of Mahāyāna.
The first aspect of this downfall is to disrespect any Buddhist or non-Buddhist, especially if they are searching for a spiritual path and are practicing methods through which they can achieve spiritual understanding or freedom and if one has no intention of guiding them to a higher pursuit. The second is to disrespect those who have entered upon the path that renounces cyclic existence, such as the šravakas and pratyekas. In addition, the six root downfall concerns those who are on the great path of Mahāyāna, which eliminates the two extremes. To claim that the philosophies of these spiritual pursuits are untrue and pointless, and to then show blatant disrespect toward their practices, constitutes the root downfall.