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Avoiding the Path to Happiness
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “AA & Buddhism” Now, many of us also are not very happy. We just don’t seem to be able to master happiness. We are filled...
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Facing Helplessness
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “AA and Buddhism” The idea that I’m trying to present is that you have to be at that place of total honesty. Now, in...
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Confession and Remorse
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “AA & Buddhism” Now with alcohol or drugs, the nature of the beast is that you’re going to hit bottom. At some point,...
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The Teacher
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Experiencing the Hook of Compassion” The teacher is considered to be the very door of liberation. The students are looking...
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How Will You Respond?
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Experiencing the Hook of Compassion” Sometimes we sort of wimp out. We want to be right. We want to have an issue. We want...
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Problems?
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Conceptual Proliferation” When we see the guru, we don’t look at the guru and say, Well, I like him or her, or, I don’t like...
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Where Spiritual Life Begins
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Conceptual Proliferation” We who are sentient beings are wandering in samsara, and according to the Buddha’s teaching, if we...
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Excitement
The following is a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Desire Blocks Happiness” I don’t know how many times people have come to me and said, “Gosh, I’m so excited about this path! I would love to...
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Does Desire End?
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Desire Blocks Happiness” What is the end of it? Where does it end? It ends when you take yourself in hand and begin to...
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Importance of Precepts
The following is respectfully quoted from “A Spacious Path to Freedom” by Karma Chagme with commentary by Gyaltrul Rinpoche The Five Stages also states: Upon seeing their spiritual mentor in public,...
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Extraordinary Relationship
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Neurotic Interaction to Guru Yoga” If we rely purely on an emotional level, not much will come of the path. If we do not...
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Denial
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered during a Phowa retreat: Those people who accuse Buddhists of creating a kind of depression or melancholy through these...
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The Challenge of Self Honesty
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Art of Dispelling Anger” We must take ourselves to task more. I don’t want to speak harshly because harshness doesn’t help,...
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The Roots of Anger
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Art of Dispelling Anger” For most of us, when we are wrathful or angry, it’s not wrathful. It’s not righteous wrath, you...
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When We Blow It
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “The Habit of Bodhicitta” So little by little, you begin to change your habit. If you really blow it, and you will, … Accept...
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The Most Important Practice
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “The Habit of Bodhicitta” The traditional fundamental ideas of all sentient beings as being equal—the realization that all...
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Avoiding the Path to Happiness
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “AA & Buddhism” Now, many of us also are not very happy. We just don’t seem to be able to master happiness. We are filled...
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Facing Helplessness
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “AA and Buddhism” The idea that I’m trying to present is that you have to be at that place of total honesty. Now, in...
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Confession and Remorse
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “AA & Buddhism” Now with alcohol or drugs, the nature of the beast is that you’re going to hit bottom. At some point,...
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How Will You Respond?
The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Experiencing the Hook of Compassion” Sometimes we sort of wimp out. We want to be right. We want to have an issue. We want...
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