A sacred space for everyone
The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Begin with love and you will produce love. Jetsunma goes into why reach for something “not of this world” like Enlightenement to solve your quest for happiness. Do it for yourself and for all beings.
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The following are the Refuge, Bodhicitta, and Accumulation of Merit verses from the Long Chen Nying Gi Thig Le La’i Rigdzin Dupa;i Tshog Chöd Zhug:
Refuge
NAMO DAG DANG THA YE SEM CHEN KÜN
NAMO I and all the endless sentient beings,
CHOG SUM NGO WO LAMA DANG
The Lama, identity of the three precious ones, and
RIGDZIN GYATSHO’I KYIL KHOR LA
The mandala of ocean-like knowledge-holders, to you
NYING NE DED PE KYAB SU CHI
I go for refuge with faith from the heart. (Repeat 3 times)
Bodhicitta
HO RIGDZIN KYIL KHOR DIR ZHUG NE
HO I enter into this mandala of knowledge-holders; then
PHA MA DRO DRUG SEM CHEN KÜN
Father, mother and all the beings of the six realms,
TSHED MED NYING JE DRÖL WA’I CHIR
In order to protect them with boundless compassion
MÖN JUG DÖN DAM JANG SEM KYED
I develop the aspiring, acting and absolute Enlightened Mind. (Repeat 3X)
Accumulation of Merit
HO CHU LE CHU WUR JI ZHIN DU
HO As water bubbles from water,
YESHE YING LE TRÜL PA’I LHAR
Divinities manifest from the space of Primordial Wisdom,
NGÖN SUM RIG PE CHAG TSHAL LO
To you I pay homage by directly realizing the Dharmata.
NYAM NANG GONG PHEL CHÖD PA BÜL
I offer the development of the experiences.
RIG PA TSHED PHEB NGANG DU SHAG
I confess in the state of perfection of awareness.
CHÖ NYID ZED LA JE YI RANG
I rejoice over the dissolution of phenomena in the Dharmata.
PHO CHEN LONG NE CHÖ KHOR KOR
Turn the Dharma wheel from the expanse of the Great Transference.
JA LÜ CHEN POR ZHUG SÖL DEB
I pray you to remain in the Great Rainbow Body.
GE TSHOG ZHÖN NU BUM KUR NGO
I dedicate the accumulation of merit for the achievement of the youthful vase-body.
DZA HUNG BAM HO TSHOG ZHING NAM RANG LA THIM PAR GYUR
The field of refuge dissolves into oneself.
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Hello all! I’ve now got my blackberry replaced. It died from a coffee spill. RIP li’l feller.
Now at my destination I am resting and will soon begin retreat in earnest. All has been travel, stay overs, re-connecting with the people of Palyul — so good.
Now resting, study, practice.I will be back eventually, when it is safe, I’m healthier, and justice is finally done. I look forward to returning home. Grateful for the love and care I have been shown.
Photos newly dug up are now available. At last the splendor of Palyul is here for all!I have so much to share with you! Ancient stories, teachings, modern from the heart teachings too. Slowly, one step at a time.
I’ve asked my students to keep up with the Occupy DC movement, and to help them. For now, hearty Tibetan soup, called tukpa with barley dough balls. Best food there is. Can we get more support to feed vegetarians please? And boiled eggs always help. Plus fresh fruit and coffee!
Here I am treated like a queen. And want to be sure all are treated so well.
My back is pretty messed up so I have to stay off my feet some, and walk with sticks some. I must conquor this pain!
But in every other way it’s all good. I’m so much less stressed not having to look over my shoulder to see if I’m being followed. This is pure bliss and peace here. And inspiring too. It feels like a whole new chapter of life, at least my life is about to begin. I just need the opportunity that comes with safety and Bodhicitta, and will do all I can for sentient beings. That is all that matters to me. To postulate about Dharma is useless. To bring the love is without question the way to awakening and peace!
OM MANI PEDME HUNG!
An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series
I would like to talk about a subject that is of the utmost importance to everyone. The subject is compassion.
You may think, “Oh, I know all about compassion. I’ve been a Dharma practitioner for a long time. I’ve had many teachings about compassion.” Or you might think, “I’m a person with a good heart. I try not to do any harm, and I try to help people. Therefore, I know about compassion.” If we hold these ideas in our heart, we have already lost precious opportunities, and will continue to lose more, because the cultivation of compassion in the heart and mind is an ongoing process.
Even if you come into this world with a compassionate ideal you must still cultivate the idea of compassion as though it were the first time you ever thought of it. Due to intense spiritual practice in the past, you may have been born into this lifetime with the idea that you want to be of benefit to sentient beings. Yet still you must cultivate the idea of compassion everyday, as though it were a delicate orchid that could die in an unnatural environment. Until we are supremely enlightened, we have obscurations of our mind that will fight against the idea of compassion.
There is no one on this earth, unless they are supremely realized, who has the purified mind of compassion. If you have been meditating for many years, and think compassion is a baby subject and you’re far beyond that, or if you think because you’ve practiced for a long time, compassion is just one of the beginner studies, and now you’d like to get on to the mystical or the “higher” Dzogchen teachings, then I think you’re making a mistake. I hope that you will relax your mind and come to the point where you commit to studying compassion deeply and profoundly, as though it were your mother. You should have that kind of intimate relationship with the idea of compassion. You should seek to be taught by it. You should seek to be suckled by the mind of compassion. You should seek to be nourished in that way.
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The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Bodhicitta is the natural expression of the “ground of being”. You can not lose it, taint it, or otherwise change it. You have oly to unveil it within yourself. Learn how.
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The following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Use self-honesty find that heart within you that will bring ultimate benefit to yourself and to all sentient beings. Here’s how.
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The following is a full length video teaching offered by Khenpo Tenzin Norgay at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
The following video teaching was offered by Khenpo Tenzin Norgay at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
The following is a full length video teaching given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
How did it begin? How do we get out? Jetsunma addresses these questions and more within the context of the Buddha’s path and pure Lineage.
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The following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo given at Kunzang Palyul Choling called “Making Bodhicitta Effortless”
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