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How Far Will You Go?

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From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (@jalpalyul) on November 11, 2010

In my experience anything can be used to propagate the Dharma – TV, radio, magazines, books, Internet blogs and Twitter. Ways to introduce Dharma are as plentiful as leaves on a tree. It depends on view, of course. The one with dirty glasses will never see well. The one who has dirty ears will not hear as well. The one who is ignorant will not accomplish well. The one with an oversized ego will not assimilate well and will lose their way due to pride and arrogance. Grasping will ensure there is nothing in the bank. The next life will be worse.

How can one’s mind not matter?  If it is view, relative mind will not be stable. If there is poverty of respect and love for all beings there is no result in Dharma.

You can tell a great deal by seeing someone’s past. A criminal always remains dangerous. A blow-hard tends to blow! No kindness there.

Buddhism is like a wedding cake, many levels. First level is purification of gross karma, the mindstream. Second level is intellectual and scholarly pursuit.  The top level is realization, awakening, result, and accomplishment.  The Bodhisattva or awakening being – this cannot be attained without Bodhicitta, and view of emptiness.

One may take exception, thinking they are unique and special, and have no ethics.  Buddhism is a philosophy of ethics. We build on ethics.  Personally I feel without ethics and compassion there is no realization. I myself practice self-honesty every day. I wish to face all poisons!  I feel that if one is unwilling to purify the poisons, and the karma of body, speech and mind, do not become Buddhist! We are change! And you must grow!

I wish you a life of joy, health and wealth!  I wish you a life of goals attained!  May you have long life and love!  Get it now as you accomplish method!  For all sentient beings.

© Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo

Advice for the Courageous Practitioner

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When you see someone who has accomplished more than you, wish them well, sincerely praying for them having even more! This is how one prepares for their next rebirth.

If you wish yourself to be “higher” than another, in a future time you will be even lower. We should celebrate other’s good fortune!

Those who are dying must have Prayer offered for them, or we will have a short life ourselves. If others are ill we must try to heal/help.

If we do not offer sympathy and food, shelter, we ourselves will suffer with loneliness and fear. Therefore it is best to be giving and kind.

If one finds HATRED and RAGE in their mindstream they will fall to the lower hell realms. Hate makes more hate, the mind is inflamed.

In order to practice Dharma bravely and completely one must have COURAGE and HONOR. These are the weapons needed to root out one’s poisons. Not for cowards!

If one Practices, Prays and Meditates, and shows the two kindnesses (ordinary and sublime) one will SURELY accomplish Dharma swiftly!

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!

From “The Way to Freedom” Beings of Great Scope

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This is from Kyabje HH DalaiLama.

The Buddha’s activities- from the beginning of his cultivating the wish to help others to the accumulating of merit and his eventual achievement of enlightenment- were ALL done for the sake of other sentient beings.

The welfare of other sentient beings is classified into two types: Temporary welfare, which is the achievement of favorable rebirth, and ultimate welfare, which is the achievement of liberation and the omniscient state. All the teachings associated with the achievement of favorable rebirth in the future are said to belong to the category of small scope.

When talk of our ultimate aim, it is of two types. Liberation from suffering and omniscience. All the teachings related to the practice of achieving personal Liberation are teachings of the middle scope. For this purpose practioners of middle scope engage in the practice of ETHICS, concentration and wisdom and then ELIMINATE the delusions and achieve liberation from suffering and rebirth.

All the teachings that outline the techniques for achieving the omniscience of Buddhahood, including both the Sutra AND Tantra vehicle are teachings related to practioners of great scope. A being of great scope is someone whose mind is motivated by great compassion for all other sentient beings and who wishes to achieve enlightenment FOR THEIR SAKE.

Thus one group can think only of a future life; these are people of little scope. People in the second group are not preoccupied with the concerns of the future life alone but are able to think of something more distant, liberation from rebirth; these are beings of the middle scope. Yet other people are not concerned only with their own welfare but are more courageous. They are concerned with the welfare also of other sentient beings, and THESE are the beings of GREAT scope.

From Kyabje His Holiness the Dalai Lama, extracted from “The WAY TO FREEDOM.

OM VAJRASATVA HUNG! OM MANI PEDME HUNG!

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

Awake to Truth

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A series of tweets from Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on September 26, 2010

The leaves are turning, rains are coming, and we are all getting old. Impermanence is the most dependable of all things. Everything changes.

The Teachings all say that life is like a swift waterfall. It looks permanent, but if you follow one cup of water down, it disappears quickly.

We are always taught one’s time on Earth should be used to benefit others, and to progress on one’s path. This assures good rebirth until Enlightenment (not intellectual), which is the precious awakening to Primordial Wisdom, the very Ground of Being without contrivance!

Lord Buddha himself never made any other claim than that – To be AWAKE to the emptiness of all phenomena, and of self-nature, and the display of cause and result interdependently arising. That is, as cause arises, so does result, though they may be separated by the dance of time!

This is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. And it was said ALL taught by HIM heard the teachings in their own language. Thus the BIG debate- did the Buddha know everything all at once? Speak all languages? Asked ANY spiritual question, He was able to reply correctly and completely. He knew the path of all who came to him. A true display of his omniscience!

I feel Buddha knew what he knew when He needed to know it. I’m in that camp. Because he was in a body but no longer ordinary His vision and wisdom would arise naturally according to the karma of those around, and the situation at hand.

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Thoughtfulness

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Awww! Our Dear Palyul Khenpo Norgay gave me the most luscious big bouquet I’ve ever seen. http://plixi.com/p/43798792

Many thanks to Dear Khenpo Norgay for this enormous gift of flowers. Frantic hunting for HUGE VASE! http://plixi.com/p/43799122

That was so kind and uplifting to receive such a lovely gift from Khenpo-La! Means the world. That’s the kind of thing Kyabje HHPR would do!

One year for my birthday Kyabje HHPR gave me two carved silver vases with a dozen long-stemmed roses + baby’s breath in each. So kind.

So this reminds me of the fragrance, the nectar that was Palyul when it was run by Kyabje HHPR’s uncompromised Boddhicitta. I miss HIM.

It is healing, joyful to see Kyabje HHPR’s uncompromising LOVE remains for Palul and our world EMAHO! OM AH HUNG VAJRA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG

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