An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Coming Alive
Here’s a wonderful way for each of us as older practitioners to evaluate ourselves. Do we feel fresh and new any more? Not much, right? We keep thinking that maybe soon some kind of refreshing experience will come to us. Oh when oh when will that be? Will it be this teacher? Will it be that teacher? Will she finally teach the way I think she ought to teach? Will she finally teach as much as I think she ought to? Will she ever give me what I want? All these kinds of thoughts come up.
Once in a while we have some kind of experience that gets our attention, and it really reaches into us somehow. How does that happen? Is it a mystery? Is it magic? Is the moon in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars? No. Somewhere there was an intention. Somewhere you called out. Somewhere you asked. Somewhere you opened the door. You forgot that you did that, but somehow you were ripe for it.
These causes are interconnecting. If your heart is not open, no matter how many hooks are sent at you, they’ll never connect. Somewhere inside you had this precious moment of intention that you probably forgot about. It wasn’t magic, believe me.
© Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo
Om Mani Pedme Hung. It is too much!
This teaching is so appropiate now. May I meditate on it. Om Tara Tutare Ture Swaha
Your Wisdom!! Spiritual calls r telepathic like mother knows about welfare of child and Guru knows about the disciples and Sentient beings.If you are in touch of Philosopher’s Stone, rest is automatic.Your teachings r so
Heartening and enlightening.
This Teaching is so Precious Jetsunma, so wonderful at this time to take in, and read and read again. Thank you so much!
Thank you Jetsunma _/i\_