Astrology

11/13/2010     Saturday

A disagreement can occur between men and women, or your male and female side could be out of sorts early today!  Apart from that, this is an excellent day.  You can earn, find or be given something of value.  You can be inspired and create something exquisite, and you can connect with someone who genuinely loves you.  Group associations are especially good; spend time with a group you love.  Jeannie Churchill said, “Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.”  Remember the good things about the people you care for.  Tell them.  You have the ability to make people happy.

The daily astrology post affects everyone. Because individual charts vary, the circumstances outlined in the post will affect people differently. Some will feel this energy in the personal arena, some in finances, some with children or family, some in work and so forth. There are many departments of life. Look to see where the dynamic affects you!

Loving Kindness and Adversity

From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, known as @JALpalyul on Twitter:

My dear, much Beloved Tweethearts I haven’t been on much today. Follow Friday! But I’ve been quite exhausted and feeling low. Nothing happening in my reality to upset me, except the continuous stream of lying and hate that has come to me for years now. By those who readily admit they are bird dogging me, and digging through my underwear drawer for something “wrong” with me. When they can’t find anything wrong they just make it up!

So I find myself deeply sad and emotionally exhausted. I have no fight in me. They are amused but still beat a nearly dead horse and laugh.

I pray they will find their way spiritually and ethically, and stop wasting time. They both have heart disease and just do not understand karma, cause and effect. They cannot see through the hate long enough to know that in trying to destroy me and KPC they are actually destroying themselves.

I wish as a mother I could comfort them. Hold them and speak of truth, love, living and dying in a noble way. Wish I could heal them as only LOVE and TRUTH can do.

But the walls are up; I cannot get in to help. I can pray for them and I do – every day.

I have thousands of followers on twitter and on my Altar blog. They in truth have very few. But I cannot be satisfied until I see their pain end. I think of them with a sorrow so deep I cannot explain.

If a pure display of love is squelched it is beyond tragic as the world needs love!

I wish I could help them; however my experience is that if I show my gentle side I get knifed in the back by these two – over and over.

I didn’t sign up for Crucifixion in this life. Another faith, that.

I pray for the day they just stop. Maybe try to help people? Animal rescue? Volunteering to help others? Comfort those in hospice? Tutor a child? There are many ways to help. Then there is no time to beat people up. One can live a helpful and productive life. Not end up in jail with a felony record. A waste of life when there is Dharma available.

There is no time to waste! We are taught in the four thoughts that turn the mind: It is like going to a continent of precious jewels and coming back empty handed.

That is the most tragic thing of all; to waste this precious human rebirth, with all its endowments on gathering trash.

So for these people I pray:

OM MANI PEDME HUNG!

OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA SIDDHI HUNG!

OM BENZAR SATO HUNG!

May this heal all enemies to Dharma and bring joy to all!

What Seeds Are You Planting?

A person who will not hear truth cannot speak truth. Always check for yourself.

A person who sees no truth for themselves cannot relate truth to others.

A person who is only interested in creating a “popular” image and is indifferent to truth will never recognize truth from LIES.

From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, known on twitter as @JALpalyul:

If a person is dying and refuses to prepare with honesty and truth, they will die an ordinary- not a noble – death.

The one that gives no comfort, kindness, truth or honesty will never see any of these in their next rebirth.

The one who gets sick will get better by offering love, healing, nourishment, kindness, service for others and prayer for their health.

Those who hold hate and resentment and do not try to purify it, will fall to the low hell realms.  And with a twisted mind will enjoy hate!

So much better to live a life of LOVE, character, honesty, right view, respect, generosity, and kindness. Never lie to put yourself up! These will carry over to next rebirth as HABITS.

Step by Step in Vajrayana

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

The Lama is used as a mirror-mind in Guru Yoga. If our view is clear without stain, we see the “face” of the Guru, and awaken to primordial wisdom.  If the mind is defiled, like with hatred and pride, there is no way to view the Guru’s nature and we are unable to awaken in Vajrayana.  If these statements bother you, examine what you may have missed. Guru Yoga? Prostrations? Mandala offerings? Vajrasattva? These are all meant to purify one’s mind.  Most every true Vajrayana practitioner will advise that one cannot miss even one step. The path is not easy.  One cannot just decide they are enlightened!

© Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo

Astrology

11/12/2010     Friday

You are feeling frisky and intelligent.  Your ideas are especially good.  Long-term planning is excellent, and you are able to come up with great short-term ideas too.  Your mind is both quick and stable. Think!  Leonardo da Vince said, “Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”  Use your mind today!  Get connected! Spend time with people and groups you care for.  Old friends call, or you call them.  Good fortune comes through invention, machines, groups, flying, and friends.  Have fun.

The daily astrology post affects everyone. Because individual charts vary, the circumstances outlined in the post will affect people differently. Some will feel this energy in the personal arena, some in finances, some with children or family, some in work and so forth. There are many departments of life. Look to see where the dynamic affects you!

How Far Will You Go?

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

Each Moment Like a Kiss

An excerpt from a teaching called Intimacy with the Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

If you are living a sacred life, which is a life truly connected with meaning, nature, cause, and result, then each moment becomes like a kiss.  Every moment is something that you have a sacred relationship with because you move into the awareness that there is nothing that you can do that is separate from your own nature.  And nothing that you can do, unless you will it to be so and close your eyes and turn away, that is separate from the result of awakening.  In order to establish this truth as being real and relevant in your life, you need to understand the path as being inseparable from your nature.

We run into all kinds of traps when we practice the BuddhaDharma.  One of them is that we feel like we’re doing somebody a favor when we practice.  We feel like we’re doing our teacher a favor.  We feel like we’re doing the people around us a favor and our compassion becomes tainted with that.  We feel like we’re doing everybody a favor by praying for the world.

When we move through the vehicle of our lives, we adapt a posture, which is very much like putting on clothing or a false crown.  We put on an appearance as though it were not ours.  We think of practicing the path as a constraint or something that we do that isn’t naturally part of us and so the path eventually becomes like a burden to carry, something that isn’t you that you have to pull with you and that becomes weighted.  It becomes too heavy.  It becomes unnatural.  It becomes an issue in your life.

What if we understood the path as something that we were unable to walk away from, so natural like our own breath?  In the same way that life is displayed as movement, breath, activity and its result is that we live.  That natural process of understanding ourselves to be that kind of creature makes it pretty easy for us to breathe, doesn’t it?  If you understand the basis of our life, and you understand cause and effect, you’re not likely to say, “Oh God, I’m so tired of breathing all the time.  I’m just sick of it.  I mean it’s really a pain.  You have to do it from the moment you’re born to the moment you die.  It’s just not fair.  Why does everybody have to do that?”  We would never think like that, of course, because your breath, your movement, is an expression of the fact that you live.

It is possible for the path to be the same kind of living reality to you.  I know that in my own practice (and I’m certainly not holding myself up as the best practitioner in the world.  There are times when I don’t have time to practice at all), I have never for a moment felt separate from the path.  That seems to me impossible.  It seems to me my entire life is an expression of the path and it is.  It seems to me that everything that I know for sure is something that the Buddha brought to the world.   I don’t know anything else for sure.  I may know something about the nature of mind, but I really couldn’t get you into D.C.  I can’t find the place.  It’s the truth.

And yet, I wouldn’t know how to take action, no matter what it looks like, that is separate from what I know as sacred.  I wouldn’t know how to remove myself from the path.  The path for me is inborn, connected, married, and I’m convinced that there would be no reason for me to live if there were no path to be displayed.  I don’t think I’d be here.  Why is that?  Is it because I’m such a great practitioner?  No, I don’t think so.  I think that somehow perhaps, it has been my good fortune, as my teachers have said, to have practiced many, many lifetimes and it has become natural and habitual for me by this time.  Perhaps that’s what it is.  But the one thing that I know for sure that I don’t see is anything that is separate from the Buddha nature.

We, as practitioners who are trying to mature in our own spirituality, have to learn how to do that, how to live a truly sacred life. There are many different ways to put that thought into practice.  I know that with native Americans, for instance, everything that they do in a ceremonial way they offer to the four directions, they offer to the spirits and powers associated with the transcendent and with earth.  Everything first is offered to the creator.  Everything is done in a ritual and ceremonial way so that it is in alignment with what we know to be our nature.

How does a Buddhist practice that kind of sacred life?  A large part of it would be to understand that the path should never be viewed as a thing that is composed of ordinary elements as we know them.  It should be understood as being inseparable from everything you see, everything that is precious to you, and which someday will be even more precious as your understanding increases.  Most importantly, the path cannot be and is not separate from that which is your primordial wisdom nature.  The voice that is the path, the method that is the path, the direction, the confidence of the path, this is all a miraculous display of Buddha nature.  Each and every aspect of the path is a means by which one can develop or awaken to that natural, innate potency that is your potency and that you cannot walk away from, that you cannot abandon or destroy.

© Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo

Astrology

11/11/2010     Thursday

An exciting leap forward can happen today.  You are emotionally in sync with a creative and unusual force that helps you.  There’s a slight temptation that you will decide to chuck everything today and go have fun.  Admit that you need to relax.  Schedule in fun time, but don’t let that mean telling jokes as you work.  Really relax, and then get back to work.  Better still; plan an entertainment this evening that you can look forward to all day.  Oh, and expect something absolutely fabulous to happen today.  G.K. Chesterton said, “The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.” This could be the day for a miracle.

The daily astrology post affects everyone. Because individual charts vary, the circumstances outlined in the post will affect people differently. Some will feel this energy in the personal arena, some in finances, some with children or family, some in work and so forth. There are many departments of life. Look to see where the dynamic affects you!

Make a Choice

Save yourself —–  Save yourself

Don’t rely on false appearance

Make a choice to see the truth

See the end of all your demons

Wake up to the call

Of your mind

Take the pulse —- Feel the heat

Make the best of this confusion

Love and passion have their day

Make a choice of higher purpose

Sing a song to show

The way

Look around you there’s no question

Lots of suffering you can see

Hunger, war, and prejudice

Exist in a world that should

Be free

What to do?  What would you

Do if you knew there was hope

And you had never done your best?

I think that’s what I’ve been feeling

I will hold the world

In my caress

What’s the plan?  Where do we stand?

Many tasks that we can do

You can try what you do best

Prayer, compassion, kindness, healing

Put your vow of love

To the test

See the nations, See the people

Hear their voices, feel their flames

Tapestry of life around you

Try to hear them call your name

All they want is to be happy

Only ignorance to blame

Do we have the heart to know

In our nature we are all the same?

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, April 20, 1991

Astrology

11/10/2010     Wednesday

Blah!  Early in the morning you may feel down or demoralized.  Ok, keep going.  Remember your goals and re-inspire yourself.  Thomas Merton said, “Your life is shaped by the end you live for.  You are made in the image of what you desire.” It is especially important to keep the big picture, your long-term goals, in mind today.  Let your goals point the direction that you take and the activities you engage in.  With this in mind, all your activities and choices are right.  But if you forget where you want to go, you will spin your wheels.  It’s your choice.

The daily astrology post affects everyone. Because individual charts vary, the circumstances outlined in the post will affect people differently. Some will feel this energy in the personal arena, some in finances, some with children or family, some in work and so forth. There are many departments of life. Look to see where the dynamic affects you!

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