Today I read of yet another child's death. Yesterday two children, killed by their nanny. What kind of mind does this? Sorrowing, angry, and full of repetitive rages? These last few months the child murder rate is dangerously rising? What happened to the parents? What happened to their caregivers? What happened to the stranger who grabbed and killed?
Caring hearts all cry the same.
I can't logic this out. But I can pray.
Namo Guanshiyin Pusa
Please watch over our world's sufferers much closer. Actively assist those children facing violence, protect them. Enable the human's who can act, to act to protect our precious jewels. This is violence is not stopping but it seems to be increasing, aid those haters, angry, sorrowful, regretful, imbalanced, and swiftly calm their minds, enabling them to seek help of a long lasting kind to keep them stable. To those murdered please teach them no revenge, to let go of their sorrow, sense of loss and fear, moving in to their next life or to their heavens let them be at peace. May all sentient beings in the past, present and future benefit from this prayer from this bhikshuni who is caring and thinking of all of them, who is a mother, who was a wife, who was child, who was born into this human realm. May all my ancestors of all my lives, my loves, my children and my children's next lives and families benefit and have full and peaceful lives. Amituofo!
I bow to Observe World Sound's known as Avalokitasvara Bodhisattva.
Ven. Hong Yang, Bhikshuni
8th rains October 26 2012.
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Fall Harvest Refining Buddhist cultivation
This year fall is seeming to arrive early. Here in Iowa the whole state has been dealt a devastating blow with an early spring drought that has not seen much rain. We are facing rising corn prices and other crops as well due to the extensive damage done with the heat wave we had all summer long.
How are we to progress with so much economic stress? The cost of living is horrifically rising again; gas is going up, that means heat and electric will rise too. Facing hardships which has been non-ending since the worsening economic crisis of the Bush era presidency policies of greed and corruption.
The answer in mind training is to remain consistent in your daily practice and even if your schedule is interrupted you still embrace study of Buddha dharma while you are in a pause or even in a few minutes of an erratic frenzied life.
Carry your practice into your chores. Vacuum the floor, sweeping or mopping are repetitive actions that allow you to clean thoroughly and meditate with awareness. Dusting regularly is another good action. However, as much as you like to try to say it, shopping is not meditation it is actually an addiction; a short term anti-anxiety solution with the only result in less cash, more debt if you use credit and lots more stuff in your home.
Built in pauses in your daily schedule in or out of monastery life. Find them, use them. Treasure them.
As Fall approaches gather in the harvest. Count your benefits, see the result of your efforts. Store what is valuable and that can carry you through the long cold Winter and nurture you welcoming the Spring in new growth.
I bow to Immortality Buddha (Namo Amituofo!)
How are we to progress with so much economic stress? The cost of living is horrifically rising again; gas is going up, that means heat and electric will rise too. Facing hardships which has been non-ending since the worsening economic crisis of the Bush era presidency policies of greed and corruption.
The answer in mind training is to remain consistent in your daily practice and even if your schedule is interrupted you still embrace study of Buddha dharma while you are in a pause or even in a few minutes of an erratic frenzied life.
Carry your practice into your chores. Vacuum the floor, sweeping or mopping are repetitive actions that allow you to clean thoroughly and meditate with awareness. Dusting regularly is another good action. However, as much as you like to try to say it, shopping is not meditation it is actually an addiction; a short term anti-anxiety solution with the only result in less cash, more debt if you use credit and lots more stuff in your home.
Built in pauses in your daily schedule in or out of monastery life. Find them, use them. Treasure them.
As Fall approaches gather in the harvest. Count your benefits, see the result of your efforts. Store what is valuable and that can carry you through the long cold Winter and nurture you welcoming the Spring in new growth.
I bow to Immortality Buddha (Namo Amituofo!)
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